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	<title>Mitchell Kapor Foundation Weblog</title>
	
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		<title>Helping nonprofits do their work better…</title>
		<link>http://blog.mkf.org/2009/07/09/helping-nonprofits-do-their-work-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I read Rosetta Thurman&#8217;s blog, &#8220;Perspectives From the Pipeline,&#8221; that resonated with a lot of the conversations that Cedric, Carmen, and I have been having about how the Kapor Foundation can work to help the nonprofits we support to do their work better.  Given that my job&#8217;s purpose is to do just that, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OpEd: Nonprofits and the Market</title>
		<link>http://blog.mkf.org/2009/06/20/oped-nonprofits-and-the-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cedric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings from DC, where I&#8217;m finishing up an intense week-long program at the Center for Public &#38; Nonprofit Leadership at Georgetown University.  I just came across this editorial in yesterday&#8217;s SF Chronicle written by Emmett Carson, Ph.D., the CEO and President of Silicon Valley Community Foundation. This article, Remaking the Nonprofit Landscape, ties together a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Craigslist Foundation’s Nonprofit Boot Camp this Saturday!</title>
		<link>http://blog.mkf.org/2009/06/17/craigslist-foundations-nonprofit-boot-camp-this-saturday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.mkf.org/?p=591</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Craigslist Foundation&#8217;s Nonprofit Boot Camp is just around the corner: this Saturday, June 20th in Berkeley.  If you&#8217;re looking for some inexpensive professional development, Nonprofit Boot Camp is for you.  For $75, you get a day of great speakers (Arianna Huffington, Randi Zuckerberg, and Craig Newmark, to name a few), workshops, and networking opportunities.  Workshops [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Front Page News: College Bound Celebration</title>
		<link>http://blog.mkf.org/2009/06/10/front-page-news-college-bound-celebration/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mkf.org/2009/06/10/front-page-news-college-bound-celebration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cedric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racial Justice]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.mkf.org/?p=582</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m so pleased to share that our College Bound Celebration was a fantastic gathering and recognition of the BBCBI organizations and participants, including 25 graduating seniors who are off to college in the fall!

The event made the front page of the Oakland Tribune and the evening news broadcasts on KTVU-2 and ABC-7.   There is also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grantees Evaluating Our Work</title>
		<link>http://blog.mkf.org/2009/06/09/grantees-evaluating-our-work/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mkf.org/2009/06/09/grantees-evaluating-our-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.mkf.org/?p=571</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past six months, we&#8217;ve worked with Blueprint Research &#38; Design, an independent consulting firm, to start shaping an evaluation of our grantmaking.  As part of this evaluation process, Blueprint will conduct phone interviews with a subset of current and past Kapor Foundation grantees.  Feedback from the interviews will help us to identify improvements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kapor on the Run</title>
		<link>http://blog.mkf.org/2009/05/31/kapor-on-the-run/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 15:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cedric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Access]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.mkf.org/?p=551</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The month of May wore me OUT! So much going on &#8211; can I capture it in 300 words or less? Here goes!
On Tuesday the 19th, I headed to Denver for the FCCP spring convening, Shifting Landscapes: Exploring Civic Engagement Strategies, Partnerships and New Possibilities. These gatherings are always informative with interesting people, and this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hip Hop on the Hill</title>
		<link>http://blog.mkf.org/2009/05/19/hip-hop-on-the-hill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 17:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cedric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Racial Justice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To my great delight I stumbled on this article featuring one of our grantees, Hip Hop Caucus Institute, which was one of the headliners on the Yahoo! news page. They&#8217;re holdin&#8217; it down! Check it out!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090519/pl_politico/22684
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		<title>Join Our College Bound Celebration</title>
		<link>http://blog.mkf.org/2009/05/15/join-our-college-bound-celebration/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mkf.org/2009/05/15/join-our-college-bound-celebration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 18:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cedric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Access]]></category>
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RSVP at http://kapor-college-bound.eventbrite.com

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		<title>Act Now for Climate Justice</title>
		<link>http://blog.mkf.org/2009/05/07/act-now-for-climate-justice/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mkf.org/2009/05/07/act-now-for-climate-justice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 23:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Access]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.mkf.org/?p=535</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Over the course of the last three weeks, I attended 3 conferences, 2 meetings, and 1 planning session all of which were focused on addressing the issue of climate change.  Although these conversations ranged from identifying individual strategies to green one&#8217;s life, like changing the type of light bulbs you use and riding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping up with the times</title>
		<link>http://blog.mkf.org/2009/04/30/keeping-up-with-the-times/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mkf.org/2009/04/30/keeping-up-with-the-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 00:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.mkf.org/?p=513</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The times are fast changing.  A couple of weeks ago, my mom sent me a text message asking me, &#8220;How do u Twitter?&#8221; Aside from being side-splittingly hilarious, it was yet another loud and clear signal that the information age is in a new dimension. I know I sound really old right now, but it [...]]]></description>
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