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		<title>A Family Foundation Convenes a County</title>
		<link>http://philanthrofiles.org/2013/12/03/a-family-foundation-convenes-a-county/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 19:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andy Carroll, ASF What would it look like for a family foundation to convene citizens of an entire county to develop a vision for the future? This is what ASF member The Dresher Foundation did in November at Connect Harford, in partnership with Maryland’s Harford Community College. I attended the event to witness this striking [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philanthrofiles.org&#038;blog=32236902&#038;post=3652&#038;subd=philanthrofiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Convening to Build Capacity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 13:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Elaine Gast Fawcett on behalf of ASF When it comes to learning about important issues and moving the needle in the right direction, convening is a low-cost and high-impact leadership tool you can’t overlook. In fact, many consider it to be a funder’s most underrated. In part 2 of a 2-part series on convening, hear how an ASF [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philanthrofiles.org&#038;blog=32236902&#038;post=3376&#038;subd=philanthrofiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Convene</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Elaine Gast Fawcett on behalf of ASF When it comes to learning about important issues and moving the needle in the right direction, convening is a low-cost and high-impact leadership tool you can’t overlook. In fact, many consider it to be a funder’s most underrated. In part 1 of a 2-part series on convening, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philanthrofiles.org&#038;blog=32236902&#038;post=3348&#038;subd=philanthrofiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Small Foundations and Public Policy</title>
		<link>http://philanthrofiles.org/2012/09/06/small-foundations-and-public-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gerald P. McCarthy, Virginia Environmental Endowment How might foundations improve public policies that affect the issues and programs they care about? There is hardly a field that foundations support that is not affected by local, state, or federal laws and policies. Whether it is K-12 education, healthy lifestyles, affordable housing, persistent poverty, or improving [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philanthrofiles.org&#038;blog=32236902&#038;post=1969&#038;subd=philanthrofiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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