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	<description>Strategies for helping purpose-driven entrepreneurs turn Ideas into Impact</description>
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		<title>Business Model Generation &#8211; A Process for Developing and Testing your Social Impact Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I was honored to present to a group of enterprising nonprofit organizations.  Each of them is interested in exploring, developing, or growing a social enterprise as part of their organizational strategy.  My quick talk was intended to help them think through some of the key pieces of how to do that, by using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What if, Why not, and How could &#8211; 5 Tips for Encouraging Possibility Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stormy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Whenever I struggle with a problem or hurdle, I ask myself two things &#8211; &#8220;What if&#8221; and &#8220;Why not.&#8221;  And, I ask them in that order. The first is a question I ask to help me generate possibilities, hoping that one might lead to something interesting or helpful.  The second question is my way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you ever really ready to make the leap?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stormy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few weeks, we&#8217;ve been reading about one entrepreneur&#8217;s experience in creating an organization.  From his words, it seems that there were many things that he and his team didn&#8217;t anticipate and that challenged their ability to move forward. The thing is, even if they weren&#8217;t perfectly ready and didn&#8217;t have all of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Rukmini Part 4: Business Challenges</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stormy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Part Four of a 4-part series in which Bibhuti  Aryal of the Rukmini Foundation shares his insider&#8217;s perspective on building an organization designed to create positive and enduring social change. Managing Business Challenges Marketing Challenges We know the problems we are trying to solve at the Rukmini Foundation are critical issues.  We also know that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Rukmini Part 3: Social Challenges</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stormy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Part Three of a 4-part series in which Bibhuti Aryal of the Rukmini Foundation shares his insider&#8217;s perspective on building an organization designed to create positive and enduring social change. Managing Social Challenges We have listed a host of challenges the Rukmini Foundation faces in our effort to establish the foundation, communicate with members and deliver [...]]]></description>
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