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		<title>Grading Charities</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris wignall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MoneySense magazine recently published The Charity 100, a series of ratings of Canadian charities based on several factors with the intent &#8220;to be a tool for potential donors researching which charities to give money to&#8221;. In the nonprofit world this is the kind of thing that fires up the blogosphere and even earns a twitter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pay for the Chalk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris wignall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend and mentor Fred Smith recently posted an insightful article about the tendency for givers to support active programs but resist funding the administrative and supportive costs those programs require. In part he gives this example:
It’s like a business manager in a school where I taught years ago. He had a closet full of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trying Techy Tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris wignall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since my last post one of the things that have kept me busy is the continuing process for Stronger Together. It has been  extremely informative. Reviewing 131 applications initially and now sitting in on some site visits for some of the 49 finalists has given me a lot of perspective on some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accountability</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris wignall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t made it public before now, but I recently accepted the role of Board Chair at Absolute.org. It&#8217;s an organization with phenomenal programs and a demonstrates desire to develop top level leadership and governance. It is my privilege to be entrusted with the responsibility of guiding our board and management team through this next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stronger Together 2010 Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris wignall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Petersen offers these comments on the Stronger Together project:
Last night at midnight, the application window for ST2010 closed.   Here’s some stats:

We received 131 applications.
The total amount requested in the 131 applications was $3,619,268.
The average ask was $27,628.   Very high for a permitted range of $5,000 – $30,000.

Now let’s do the math.  The eight partners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kiva is No Island</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris wignall</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Great Stories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kiva.org is one of the best innovations in poverty work I can remember. Taking the impact of microfinance and tying it to the power of the internet for awareness and individual engagement is nothing short of brilliant.
Unfortunately, along with the massive exposure have come several misconceptions about how Kiva actually works.
On the Social Edge blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helping Haiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris wignall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tragic events in Haiti over the last week have captured our attention in a rare manner. Like Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, and the 9/11 attacks, the world is taking notice. In this case the suffering is all the more desperate because Haiti has such a history of instability.
We are being inundated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Slacktivism&#8221; and Selfishness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris wignall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social media has given us the possibility off raising awareness of needs, issues, and causes more rapidly than ever before, but also has made it easy to give token support that translates to neither dollars nor activity.
Navneet Alang raises concerns about both the superficiality of facebook causes and the expanded potential for narcissism when we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiscal and Frenetic</title>
		<link>http://www.catalystfoundation.ca/fiscal-and-frenetic.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris wignall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the time of year when the majority of charities are scrambling to get last minute donations from donors before the end of the calendar year. While most North Americans are trying to enjoy a little extra time off, many Executive Directors, Development Officers, and CEOs are spending hours trying to access and accomodate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Appealing Failure</title>
		<link>http://www.catalystfoundation.ca/an-appealing-failure.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.catalystfoundation.ca/an-appealing-failure.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris wignall</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.catalystfoundation.ca/?p=814</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What a great idea!!
Playpumps International has come up with a way for African villages to access desperately needed clean water by rigging a pump with a children&#8217;s merry-go-round. As the children laugh and play together they provide life-giving water for their entire community. The perfect photo op is so many ways. It even gathered support [...]]]></description>
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