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		<title>Machine Gun Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris wignall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hope is the greatest weapon of all. So reads the tagline for the new movie Machine Gun Preacher starring Gerard Butler in the title role portraying the compelling Sam Childers, a former violent criminal who became a missionary in Sudan running an orphanage, and has claimed to have engaged in a paramilitary campaign to rescue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political Intrigue</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris wignall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week the Toronto Star reported that former US President George W. Bush would be speaking at an invitation only breakfast for donors to Tyndale University, one of Canada&#8217;s most prominent Christian post-secondary schools and probably North America&#8217;s most diverse. Not surprisingly, this generated some strong responses. Yesterday Tyndale announced that the event has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Local Leadership&#8221; Dilemma</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris wignall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve been becoming more educated in the field of global relief and development I&#8217;ve started to form some reasonably strong opinions. The strongest is that I don&#8217;t know enough to support my strong opinions. I have become convinced by reading, site visits, and conversations with trusted, experienced professionals that effective long term improvement in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Same Pair of Jeans</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris wignall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago I spent a few hours in a garbage dump outside the city of Sosua in the Dominican Republic helping illegal Haitian immigrants scavenge for recyclables, and food. I was there leading a group of young people who have been recipients of the Catalyst Award. Having been chosen for their demonstrated commitment to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s your Icon?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris wignall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a time of year when rituals, traditions, and symbols are everywhere. Some represent family, others are seasonal or sacred. In fact, a lot of the things I do that make it feel like Christmas are meaningful in ways I can&#8217;t easily explain. Defining why it seems so wrong that my parents bought an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Microfinance Bubble</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris wignall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last couple decades there has been a growing excitement in development fields about the promise of microfinance as a key tool in reducing the impacts of extreme poverty in a sustainable manner. As the industry has grown from the pioneering work of Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus&#8217; Grameen Bank and the outstanding results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not about the</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris wignall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this summer my 6 year old refused to take part in a large family picture at a reunion. Regardless of how we asked, encouraged, or mildly threatened him he just wouldn&#8217;t sit down with all the cousins and more distant relatives and smile for a few seconds. Until Grandpa offered him $2 to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stronger Together &#8211; 2010 Grants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris wignall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning the results of the Stronger Together 2010 collaborative granting project were released (Complete list of grantees here.) Having invested a significant part of the past ten months in the process it is a satisfying thing to be able to notify the successful applicants (selected from a total field of 131) and anticipate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking a Leak</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris wignall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes opportunity knocks, sometimes it seeps through the basement walls. When recent rains flooded the basement of Stu Taylor&#8217;s home outside Winnipeg he didn&#8217;t anticipate it leading to positive news coverage for our partner IDE-Canada. To see how personal frustration was turned into national media coverage watch this clip from the CBC or read the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations Ide</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris wignall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are excited at the news that our partners at International Development Enterprises have just been named the first ever winners of the Nestle prize in Creating Shared Value for work they are doing with small scale farmers in Cambodia. By taking an innovative and market based approach to agricultural sustainability IDE has demonstrated that [...]]]></description>
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