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		<title>Black History Month at Tides: Equity In Action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Historian Carter G. Woodson started Negro History Week in 1926 to educate the American people about African-American history and to promote that history as a more significant part of American history as a whole.  Despite his original intentions and the federal expansion of the week into a month, critics rightly argue that African Americans and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2012/02/01/black-history-month-at-tides-equity-in-action/</link>
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		<title>Facebook&#039;s IPO: Social Network, Meet Social Innovation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook’s initial public offering (IPO)—and the wealth it will soon produce—has been generating considerable buzz among the diverse individuals, organizations, and investors who helped make the company such an extraordinary success. While the coming IPO will no doubt result in short-lived pursuits, the most compelling and hopeful outcome will also endure: social change powered by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2012/01/31/facebook-ipo-social-network-meet-social-innovation/</link>
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		<title>Knowing What You Don&#039;t Know: A Case Study in Flexible Leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor's Note: This post comes from Linda Wood, Senior Director of Leadership and Grantmaking at the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund. The Evelyn &#38; Walter Haas, Jr. Fund Flexible Leadership Awards (FLA) Program, a Tides Center project, recently released a video case study of our work with the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2012/01/30/case-study-in-flexible-leadership/</link>
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		<title>Why You Need an Entrepreneur-in-Residence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tides CEO Melissa Bradley participated in a January advisory board meeting of Dell’s recently established Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) program. Led by clean energy entrepreneur Ingrid Vanderveldt, the EIR concept has created a corporate innovation shop inside Dell to foster creativity and new ideas. The concept is distinct from traditional R&#38;D as it focuses on vetting new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2012/01/25/why-you-need-an-entrepreneur-in-residence/</link>
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		<title>Tides Applauds Cecilia Muñoz&#039;s appointment as Director of the Domestic Policy Council</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tides congratulates civil rights and immigrants' rights advocate Cecilia Muñoz on being named the new White House Director of the Domestic Policy Council by President Obama. This historic announcement marks Muñoz as the first Latina in the position, as well as the highest ranking Latina in the White House. "I am delighted that President Obama [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2012/01/11/cecilia-munoz-white-house-director-domestic-policy-council/</link>
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		<title>New Year, New Tides</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year! We are so excited to kick off this year with new and exciting programs and initiatives aimed at better supporting our clients, partners and the field. Last year Tides spent a great deal of time revising internal systems to support organizational sustainability and improve service delivery to our partners and clients. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2012/01/01/new-year-new-tides/</link>
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		<title>Announcing the 1% Campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This month, one of our newest board members, Anne Mosle, kicks off the 1% Campaign. The campaign is designed to engage Tides donors in support of Tides’ vision for social change. By investing 1% of her DAF back into Tides, Anne is supporting many of the new and exciting programs and initiatives, including: New partnerships [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2011/12/27/announcing-the-1-campaign/</link>
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		<title>Launching the Tikkun Olam Fund</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tikkun Olam Fund is launching at Tides this month with the goal of creating a vehicle to support the work of progressive organizations and efforts within and on behalf of the Jewish community. There are many Jewish organizations that are deeply mission aligned with Tides and are doing exemplary work in the social justice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2011/12/23/launching-the-tikkun-olam-fund/</link>
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		<title>Toward a Two-Generation Strategy: Voices of American Families</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor's Note: This guest post comes from Anne Mosle, a member of Tides Board of Directors and Executive Director of Ascend, a program of the Aspen Institute. As America struggles to regain its economic footing, the nation’s most vulnerable families—parents of young children who live at 200% of poverty or less—express strong feelings of frustration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2011/12/16/toward-a-two-generation-strategy-voices-of-american-families/</link>
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		<title>The Future of Tides</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am excited to share some good news as the Tides family of people and programs is growing. We have added over 30 new clients to the Foundation since last year and increased grants processed through the Center by over $1.5M since 2010. We have also redesigned Tides Partners, our online donor platform. It now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2011/12/15/future-of-tides/</link>
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