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		<title>In Support of Micro-Savings</title>
		<link>http://thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/in-support-of-micro-savings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vosburg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In reply to Holden&#8217;s post on GiveWell, one of my favorite blogs&#8230;
I would have to disagree with David &#38; Basti.
MFIs do not want to provide savings products for many different reasons, but most of all because it is less profitable. The ROI on savings is far lower than that for MFIs, and so MFIs avoid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com&blog=4073758&post=151&subd=thenonprofitlife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Approval from Mongu!</title>
		<link>http://thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/approval-from-mongu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vosburg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bishop Duffy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caritas]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com/?p=140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have been wondering why I have not written in a few weeks. No, it is not because I have been lazy, but because my main project, implementing Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC) in Western Province was postponed until an important visit was made.
Last week I took the bus seven hours to Mongu [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com&blog=4073758&post=140&subd=thenonprofitlife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting Poverty from Space</title>
		<link>http://thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/fighting-poverty-from-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vosburg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zambia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[satellite]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com/?p=137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What if the first world trained its eyes on developing nations? Daily monitoring from satellites in orbit overhead is a reality today, and the pictures are becoming just as clear of the fields in Zambia or los campos de El Salvador as they are of the home where I grew up in the US.  As [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com&blog=4073758&post=137&subd=thenonprofitlife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gender Roles in Rural Zambia</title>
		<link>http://thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/gender-roles-in-rural-zambia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vosburg</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com/?p=126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This past week I spent observing farmer field school trainings in the town of Choma. On the last day the facilitator conducted an exercise on gender differences on farms. Two of the four groups drew pie charts of an average male and female day; what activities they performed at each hour during the day. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com&blog=4073758&post=126&subd=thenonprofitlife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sachs! Easterly! Neither!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vosburg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[international development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Sachs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For anyone unfamiliar with the international development debate, Sachs and Easterly present polar opposite perspectives on how the international community can and has supported or failed to advance the development of growing nations.
Sachs contends that international aid and development has been positive, but it is not enough. We have all the tools, but the intensity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com&blog=4073758&post=123&subd=thenonprofitlife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hello Again!</title>
		<link>http://thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/hello-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vosburg</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com/?p=115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a while since I last posted and I am looking forward to re-engaging in discussion over the Nonprofit Life. So what have I been up to? I found a job, graduated from Yale School of Management, made some money, got married, and moved to Zambia. Yep!&#8230;
My job search went well and required [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com&blog=4073758&post=115&subd=thenonprofitlife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opendream Shout-Out</title>
		<link>http://thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/opendream-shout-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 19:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vosburg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bangkok]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barcamp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clare Potter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drupal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Social Enterprise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isadora Tang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristina Schapiro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opendream]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last semester at Yale, I worked with a social enterprise called Opendream as part of the Global Social Enterprise class I helped to lead.
Open Dream is a start-up whose mission is to provide web-based information management solutions to NGOs for below-market cost to empower them to achieve their missions. Opendream is located in Bangkok, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com&blog=4073758&post=120&subd=thenonprofitlife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A quadripartite mandate</title>
		<link>http://thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/a-quadripartite-mandate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattataylor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[capacity building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[field building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nonprofit sector roles]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com/?p=107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a quick, undeveloped thought.
As I&#8217;ve thought about where I&#8217;d like to sit in an organization next year, I&#8217;ve thought a lot about what I&#8217;d like my mandate to be: fighting for the issue I believe in (field building in an &#8220;industry&#8221; or issue area), fighting directly for the people I believe in (service-oriented work); [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com&blog=4073758&post=107&subd=thenonprofitlife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not all about the $$$&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/its-not-all-about-the/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattataylor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bottom-line]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nonprofit management]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com/?p=104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In keeping with my promise to write more, I&#8217;m taking a break from my first visit with my family since they moved to Arizona to post some thoughts about an issue that&#8217;s been on my mind.
I attended StartingBloc last week and so many of the conversations I had with fellows linked social change and $ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com&blog=4073758&post=104&subd=thenonprofitlife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not such a short hiatus&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/not-such-a-short-hiatus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattataylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, when things pick up, they really pick up.  Holidays, an inauguration, a new season of the Bachelor, looming restructuring at my employer, a new computer (MacBook!) &#8211; you get the point.  Suffice it to say, this blog deserves more attention.  What better way to reintroduce this into my life than to reflect on why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenonprofitlife.wordpress.com&blog=4073758&post=100&subd=thenonprofitlife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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