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	<title>Peter Deitz</title>
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		<title>From Social Entrepreneurship to Social Interpreneurship</title>
		<link>http://peterdeitz.com/social-entrepreneurship/from-social-entrepreneurship-to-social-interpreneurship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Deitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Entrepreneurship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following blog entry was written in April 2010 as part of my coverage of the Skoll World Forum 2010. Please add your comments to the original post on Social Edge.
At this year’s Skoll World Forum, an unusually contagious and bold  energy flowed through the conversations, panel topics, and  tweets. Perhaps the new energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humbled by Volcanic Ash and Great Brilliance</title>
		<link>http://peterdeitz.com/social-entrepreneurship/humbled-by-volcanic-ash-and-great-brilliance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Deitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Entrepreneurship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The prospect of volcanic ash from Iceland raining down on Skoll World Forum delegates, grounding them in the City of Dreaming Spires, as they share with one another their lessons learned from years of trying to change the world is beyond poetic.  It serves as an awesome reminder of the power that Earth wields on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skoll World Forum 2010 Opening Plenary: Imperfect Translations, Empowerment, and Shopping-Lists</title>
		<link>http://peterdeitz.com/social-entrepreneurship/skoll-world-forum-2010-opening-plenary-imperfect-translations-empowerment-and-shopping-lists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Deitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Entrepreneurship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Moments ago, I was one of several hundred delegates streaming out of  the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford University. We had just experienced the  opening plenary of the Skoll  World Forum 2010.
The event opened with a beautiful  performance by South African Singer-Songwriter and Poet Activist, Vusi Mahlasela, including a song about two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Entrepreneurship and Collaboration Go Together Like&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://peterdeitz.com/social-entrepreneurship/social-entrepreneurship-and-collaboration-go-together-like/</link>
		<comments>http://peterdeitz.com/social-entrepreneurship/social-entrepreneurship-and-collaboration-go-together-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Deitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Entrepreneurship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The words &#8220;social entrepreneurship and collaboration&#8221; don&#8217;t exactly roll  off one&#8217;s tongue. Nevertheless, as the Skoll World Forum 2010 gets underway, I have been reflecting  on whether the Jazz musician Louis Jordan should have included the  coupling in his 1949 song &#8220;Beans and Cornbread&#8220;.
Please  humor me for a moment and consider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Less What, More How: A Review of Nilofer Merchant&#8217;s The New How</title>
		<link>http://peterdeitz.com/social-entrepreneurship/less-what-more-how-a-review-of-nilofer-merchants-the-new-how/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Deitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Entrepreneurship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following review was posted on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog in March 2010. Please leave your comments on the original post. 
One of the best things that can happen to a social entrepreneur is to  have the right book fall in your lap at the right time.
Recently, I was fortunate to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Microphilanthropy Is Changing Giving</title>
		<link>http://peterdeitz.com/microphilanthropy/how-microphilanthropy-is-changing-giving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Deitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Microphilanthropy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In March 2010, I had the honour of presenting at Social Venture Partner Toronto&#8217;s panel discussion on, &#8220;How Microphilanthropy Is Changing Giving.&#8221;
Below are my &#8217;slides&#8217; from the presentation&#8230;


How Microphilanthropy is Changing Giving on Prezi

And here&#8217;s a description of the event&#8230;
Microphilathropy is an approach to philanthropy based on smaller, more direct interaction between those who are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Small to Fail: Debt Relief for Social Entrepreneurs</title>
		<link>http://peterdeitz.com/social-entrepreneurship/too-small-to-fail-debt-relief-for-social-entrepreneurs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Deitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Entrepreneurship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the business world, it’s par for the course to move on when a project has proven financially unviable. Those of us who identify as social entrepreneurs can be more stubborn, at our own expense. We don’t necessarily move on when our projects have proven financially unviable.
We keep going, at first turning to philanthropic capital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gentle Action: Bringing Creative Change to a Turbulent World</title>
		<link>http://peterdeitz.com/social-entrepreneurship/gentle-action-bringing-creative-change-to-a-turbulent-world/</link>
		<comments>http://peterdeitz.com/social-entrepreneurship/gentle-action-bringing-creative-change-to-a-turbulent-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Deitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Entrepreneurship]]></category>

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The recent book Gentle Action: Bringing Creative Change to a Turbulent World argues that smaller, community-generated interventions — or “gentle actions” — should be considered before dramatic, top-down programs. The author, F. David Peat, is a physicist and a prolific writer on science and the human condition. He is the founder of the Pari Center [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raise Money on Facebook: Four Strategies You Need to Know About</title>
		<link>http://peterdeitz.com/fundraising/raise-money-on-facebook-four-strategies-you-need-to-know-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Deitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fundraising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to online fundraising, an obvious tip is to meet your current and potential donors where they are. With 300 million active users, Facebook is a natural starting place. Moreover, the company reports that people who are 35 years and older make up the fastest growing user demographic, which corresponds to the demographic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Standards, Yes We Can</title>
		<link>http://peterdeitz.com/nonprofit-technology/open-standards-yes-we-can/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Deitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nonprofit Technology]]></category>

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(Source: Robotson on Flickr)
I don&#8217;t know about you, but I am a big fan of open standards, particularly when my bladder Direct Messages me with the hashtag #urgent. Open standards (see picture above) guide me to a place where I can @reply in a hurry.
In the non-profit technology community, open standards of a different variety [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Join the Discussion: Competition or Collaboration?</title>
		<link>http://peterdeitz.com/social-entrepreneurship/join-the-discussion-competition-or-collaboration/</link>
		<comments>http://peterdeitz.com/social-entrepreneurship/join-the-discussion-competition-or-collaboration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Deitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Entrepreneurship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week, I am hosting a discussion on SocialEdge.org called, Competition or Collaboration?. I look forward to your contributions to the discussion. Please don&#8217;t be shy. This is an important conversation to have out in the open, and a timely moment to have it. 
This morning I googled the phrase “collaboration is a good thing,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time and Social Action</title>
		<link>http://peterdeitz.com/nonprofit-technology/time-and-social-action/</link>
		<comments>http://peterdeitz.com/nonprofit-technology/time-and-social-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 20:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Deitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nonprofit Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Note: The transcript below if from my keynote presentation at Connecting Up Australia in May 2009.
Thank you for the introduction.
A little more background on what Social Actions is building. We are an open source database of actions people can take in support of the nonprofits and causes they care about most. The database currently has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Case for Online Support for Social Entrepreneurs</title>
		<link>http://peterdeitz.com/social-entrepreneurship/the-case-for-online-support-for-social-entrepreneurs/</link>
		<comments>http://peterdeitz.com/social-entrepreneurship/the-case-for-online-support-for-social-entrepreneurs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Deitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Entrepreneurship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you’re someone who wants to make a difference in the world without devoting all of your time to the effort.
You want to lend your creativity, connections, and capital to effect change but you don’t have tons of time.  You go to a website like Social Actions.  You enter the keywords that describe the cause [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Will Your Nonprofit Raise Money in 2012?</title>
		<link>http://peterdeitz.com/fundraising/how-will-your-nonprofit-raise-money-in-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://peterdeitz.com/fundraising/how-will-your-nonprofit-raise-money-in-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Deitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fundraising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Note: I wrote this article for the November 2008 e-Newsletter for the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN).
With the global financial crisis at its peak and a recession looming, many nonprofit managers are probably asking themselves, &#8220;How will my nonprofit raise money next year?&#8221; I suspect fewer fundraisers are asking themselves, &#8220;How will my nonprofit raise the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unlocking the Potential of Online Social Marketplaces</title>
		<link>http://peterdeitz.com/microphilanthropy/unlocking-the-potential-of-online-social-marketplaces/</link>
		<comments>http://peterdeitz.com/microphilanthropy/unlocking-the-potential-of-online-social-marketplaces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Deitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Microphilanthropy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In October 2008, I participated in a panel discussion on the future of micro-philanthropy. The discussion was part of Online Social Marketplaces 2008, a closed event organized by and for grantees of The Omidyar Network.
The Omidyar Network is the philanthropic arm of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam. Over the last several years, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Collaboration: Lunch with Sustainability Solutions Group</title>
		<link>http://peterdeitz.com/social-entrepreneurship/on-collaboration-lunch-with-sustainability-solutions-group/</link>
		<comments>http://peterdeitz.com/social-entrepreneurship/on-collaboration-lunch-with-sustainability-solutions-group/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Deitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Entrepreneurship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Melissa Garcia Lamarca is a fulltime worker member of Sustainability Solutions Group (SSG), a Canadian-based cooperative that consults with institutions on a range of environmental, economic, and social sustainability projects. Last month, we met up for lunch at what I thought was an eco-friendly café in Montreal.
“Salmon is not a great option. Fish farming has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;This Is What Philanthropy Looks Like&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://peterdeitz.com/microphilanthropy/this-is-what-philanthropy-looks-like/</link>
		<comments>http://peterdeitz.com/microphilanthropy/this-is-what-philanthropy-looks-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Deitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Microphilanthropy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During the lead up to the Iraq War—for good reasons, a subject overlooked in conversations about social innovation—I found myself marching through the streets of Montreal, New York, Toronto, and Washington DC. The people I was protesting alongside had many chants. The one that stirred my emotions every time went, “This is what democracy looks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vision, Leadership and Partnership</title>
		<link>http://peterdeitz.com/microphilanthropy/vision-leadership-and-partnership/</link>
		<comments>http://peterdeitz.com/microphilanthropy/vision-leadership-and-partnership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 20:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Deitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Microphilanthropy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday evening, the famed cartoonist Milt Gross made an appearance at the Council on Foundations annual conference. In a session called Strategic Philanthropy: Theory and Practice, the speaker Paul Brest, President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, flashed on the monitor a cartoon of howling wolves gathered at the edge of a cliff. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Davos of Philanthropy: First Impressions</title>
		<link>http://peterdeitz.com/microphilanthropy/the-davos-of-philanthropy-first-impressions/</link>
		<comments>http://peterdeitz.com/microphilanthropy/the-davos-of-philanthropy-first-impressions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 21:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Deitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Microphilanthropy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I find myself on the edges of what could easily be called the “Davos of Philanthropy.” Roughly three thousand attendees have flown in from across the globe to discuss the current and future states of global philanthropy.
A few phrases from the opening statements of Steve Gunderson, the Council on Foundations executive director, jumped out as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Tips for Foundations Looking to “Push the Envelope” of Philanthropy (Instead of Papers)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 20:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Deitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Microphilanthropy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’m tucked away in a remote corner of the enormous Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center, the site of this year’s annual conference of the Council on Foundations.
Before heading over to the next event, I want to quickly share seven tips I heard today on how foundations can “push the envelope” of philanthropy.
The following ideas [...]]]></description>
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