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		<title>Shout Mouse Press &#8211; Education: A Dream without Borders</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2019/02/05/education-a-dream-without-borders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 17:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spur Local]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This is the story of how I got out of a hole.&#8221; This is the opening line of an incredible story written and illustrated by Erminia, a young immigrant from El Salvador. At fifteen, Erminia&#8217;s mother gave her a stark &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2019/02/05/education-a-dream-without-borders/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Season of Getting, Season of Giving</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/12/30/season-of-getting-season-of-giving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara Harman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following blog was published by Barbara Harman, Catalogue President and Editor, on December 30th 2013. To see the original post, click here. There is a new kind of inequality in our nation and it isn&#8217;t between blacks and whites, &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/12/30/season-of-getting-season-of-giving/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In the News</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/09/11/in-the-news-106/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 16:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spur Local]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dramatic increase in demand for affordable housing in Arlington &#8212; A 122-unit affordable housing complex, still under construction, received over 3,600 applications in less than two weeks from hopeful residents. With maximum income limits that vary between just over $30,000 &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/09/11/in-the-news-106/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hidden Issues</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/03/05/hidden-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 06:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=8494</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, in The Daily Wrag (Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers), President Tamara Copeland explored &#8220;What sequestration means for philanthropy:&#8221; I want to focus on the hidden issues. Much of the impact connected to sequestration will be far less overt. The &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/03/05/hidden-issues/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In The News &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/02/06/in-the-news-97/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In speech, DC mayor pledges investment in affordable housing, other city programs (Washington Post): &#8220;A &#8216;prosperity dividend&#8217; from the District&#8217;s continued economic growth should be used to make investments in key city government programs, Mayor Vincent C. Gray said in &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/02/06/in-the-news-97/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In The News &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/01/30/in-the-news-96/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=8244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At rally, leaders promise action on affordable housing (Greater Greater Washington): &#8220;Over 300 people rallied for affordable housing this weekend with the Housing for All Campaign [...] The next few months will be critical for housing funding. The task force &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/01/30/in-the-news-96/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fiscal Cliff &#8212; Averted?</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/01/03/fiscal-cliff-averted/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/01/03/fiscal-cliff-averted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spur Local]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Marie LeBlanc, Community Partnerships Coordinator While many Americans across the county rang in New Year&#8217;s Day 2013 with pomp, circumstance, and auld lang syne, the United States Congress was (for once) hard at work &#8212; barely scraping through the &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/01/03/fiscal-cliff-averted/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Election Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/11/06/election-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 05:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From &#8220;Editorial: Our Endorsement? Vote!&#8221; in The Nonprofit Quarterly: We at the Nonprofit Quarterly take pride in being both opinionated and, in terms of political elections, nonpartisan. We don&#8217;t endorse or call for the rejection of candidates for public office &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/11/06/election-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In The News &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/07/25/in-the-news-80/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=6634</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hospital Team Works To Keep Kids With HIV Healthy (WAMU): &#8220;In 2005, 6% of all babies in the United States born with HIV were from Washington, DC. But there&#8217;s been some progress; there hasn&#8217;t been a baby born with HIV &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/07/25/in-the-news-80/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In The News &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/06/27/in-the-news-78/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=6406</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s Driving College Costs Higher? (WAMU): Just days before student loan rates are set to double for millions of Americans, President Obama and congressional leaders haven&#8217;t reached an agreement on legislation to keep those rates at 3.4 percent. The debate &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/06/27/in-the-news-78/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In The News &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/04/05/in-the-news-70/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate Giving]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=5648</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Social Ethics: A Peek Into 2012 (Huffington Post): &#8220;Business as usual is changing. Or at least the way business leaders think about philanthropy is changing. In an era of global connectivity and instant media, companies increasingly view philanthropic campaigns as &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/04/05/in-the-news-70/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In The News &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/02/15/in-the-news-64/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=5185</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Objections to Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (WAMU: Diane Rehm Show): &#8220;The widely praised Violence Against Women Act faces a tough reauthorization battle. Though introduced in a bipartisan way, it passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/02/15/in-the-news-64/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In The News &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/02/01/in-the-news-62/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=5049</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How Many Students Really Graduate From High School? (WAMU): &#8220;Now, for the first time, the federal government is requiring states to follow a standardized method. As a result, DC&#8217;s public school graduation rate could drop by about 20 percent under &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/02/01/in-the-news-62/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Arts Work</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/01/31/the-arts-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=5037</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, we linked to this Chronicle of Philanthropy piece, which reported that the nonprofit sector &#8220;added jobs at an average annual rate of more than 2 percent from 2000 to 2010, while for-profit jobs were cut by 0.6 percent &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/01/31/the-arts-work/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>First Vote</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/11/03/first-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=4375</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.&#8221; &#8211; President Lyndon B. Johnson In 1961, the 23rd amendment &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/11/03/first-vote/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In The News &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/09/14/in-the-news-45/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 04:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s Jobs Bill: Ready to Take a Chance Again? (Nonprofit Quarterly): Wondering &#8220;which parts of the president&#8217;s plan are most relevant to nonprofits, and what effect are they likely to have on the sector?&#8221; NPQ&#8217;s intricate piece walks through both &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/09/14/in-the-news-45/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Wired?</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/07/11/whos-wired/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So who is &#8220;connected&#8221; &#8212; digitally, that is&#8211; and who is less so? According to a new report from the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University: People who live in the Washington, DC, region are pretty well connected when it &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/07/11/whos-wired/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In The News &#8230; [Updated!]</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/06/08/in-the-news-33/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 04:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BREAKING NEWS! The Catalogue for Philanthropy Class of 2011-2012 has been selected! Check out our 70 new and re-listed charities, as well as those who have been &#8220;re-certified&#8221; to remain on the web. (Several of whom have grown so much &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/06/08/in-the-news-33/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In the News &#8230; (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/02/16/in-the-news-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Wednesday, folks. First, to address the questions that are arising both in the wake of the President&#8217;s budget proposal and from the debate to come, do check out yesterday&#8217;s coverage at Chronicle of Philanthropyand in the Nonprofit Quarterly. &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/02/16/in-the-news-part-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quote for the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/01/27/quote-for-the-day-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s more, we are the first nation to be founded for the sake of an idea &#8212; the idea that each of us deserves the chance to shape our own destiny. That&#8217;s why centuries of pioneers and immigrants have risked &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/01/27/quote-for-the-day-4/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In The News &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/01/05/in-the-news-12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Tis the day for mid-week news and notes&#8230; And let us know if you have anything to share with the Catalogue crowd! How to Find Generous Donors &#8212; Just before 2011, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported on three new giving &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/01/05/in-the-news-12/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In The News &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2010/12/08/in-the-news-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Wednesday, Washingtonians! &#8220;Are There Limits to Collaborations?&#8221; &#8212; this post over at Deep Social Impact definitely caught my eye. First, I wrote a quick post on the resurgence of an ethic of collaboration among disparate organizations. Second, on &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2010/12/08/in-the-news-10/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Always An Election Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2010/11/04/always-an-election-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; For astute leaders looking to grow, treat every day like election day &#8212; a new opportunity to learn, to build trust, to forge commitment, and to get out the vote in support of your organization&#8217;s better tomorrows. It&#8217;s not &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2010/11/04/always-an-election-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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