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		<title>Zero Mercury Campaign Uses Mercury Monitoring Device to Promote Grassroots Actions, Strong Global Treaty</title>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2011/04/29/zero-mercury-campaign-uses-mercury-monitoring-device-to-promote-grassroots-actions-strong-global-treaty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mercury Policy Project (a project of Tides) and European Environment Bureau recently co-authored this article about MPP's grassroots efforts to promote a strong mercury treaty: "Zero Mercury Campaign Uses Mercury Monitoring Device to Promote Grassroots Actions, Strong Global Treaty." MPP and its many allies have been working in partnership for over a decade to promote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Center for Environment and Population Launches New Population, Climate Change, Environment Fellowships</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 17:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Skinner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Environment and Population - a project of Tides - with four leading U.S. and global institutes, announces the launch of the 2010 CEP Fellows on Population, Climate Change and the Environment.  This is the first of a new, ongoing series of Fellowships to advance the science, science-policy-advocacy links, and real-world science application [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Challenges for Community Clinics</title>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2010/05/07/new-challenges-for-community-clinics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 21:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Esteves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Community clinics and health centers are a key source of health care for the poor. What will happen to them now that a version of health care reform has passed? by Tom David, Jane Elizabeth Stafford of Tides' Community Clinics Initiative After nearly a year of heated debate about health care reform, Americans are used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care for America Now: What&#039;s Next?</title>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2010/04/05/health-care-for-america-now-whats-next/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine Lerza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to join the conversation at a special briefing featuring Health Care for America Now. It’s taken 94 years and many failed attempts for the United States to join the rest of the world’s industrial democracies in making health care a right for all its residents.  And while the process was ugly (that old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shareholder Activism Wins Victories</title>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2010/04/05/shareholder-activism-wins-victories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>guest author</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by Timothy Smith, Senior Vice President, Environment, Social and Governance Group at Walden Asset Management The investment portfolio at Tides has been managed for decades by Walden Asset Management (formerly U.S. Trust of Boston), a leader in sustainable and responsible investing.  Here are four areas where Walden helps Tides' investments to support a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Defining Moment for Health Philanthropy</title>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2010/03/18/a-defining-moment-for-health-philanthropy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom David is a Senior Strategist at Community Clinics Initiative, a project of Tides that was started in partnership with The California Endowment and has granted over $100 million to more than 90 percent of California's community clinics. David recently wrote a rousing commentary for last week's Grantmakers In Health annual meeting calling health foundations [...]]]></description>
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