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		<title>Learning Tour Explores Community Organizing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Funder tour recap: Supporting community organizing as a strategy for change
By Michael Coffey
Source: Giving Matters, e-newsletter of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers
Date: November 20, 2008
  
Last month, the Hill-Snowdon Foundation hosted a learning tour through 3 distinct District neighborhoods: Brentwood, Anacostia and Shaw. It is tradition for our Foundation to supplement board meetings with neighborhood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Someplace Like Home: The Fight Against Gentrification in Downtown Brooklyn</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcoffey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The long-awaited film from Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE), “Someplace Like Home: The Fight Against Gentrification in Downtown Brooklyn,” will premier on December 5th at Medgar Evers College. Produced by FUREE members and narrated by Kevin Powell, this documentary explores the downside of rampant development in downtown Brooklyn and the devastating effect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Realizing the Promise: The Meaning of this Moment</title>
		<link>http://podserver.listenshare.com/hillsnowdon/realizing-the-promise-the-meaning-of-this-moment-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://podserver.listenshare.com/hillsnowdon/realizing-the-promise-the-meaning-of-this-moment-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcoffey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Justice]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Youth Organizing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Realizing the Promise: The Meaning of This Moment (Part 1)
By Deepak Bhargava
Source: Center for Community Change
November 5, 2008
 
“The United States has lived through 40 years of retrenchment in our national government’s commitment to social justice.  We have suffered ugly culture war politics that have targeted the most vulnerable people in our country as scapegoats.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tenant Organizing in East Palo Alto, California</title>
		<link>http://podserver.listenshare.com/hillsnowdon/tenant-organizing-in-east-palo-alto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcoffey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Organizing]]></category>

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Youth United for Community Action (YUCA) has released Homeless Now? East Palo Alto Tenants Struggle to Pay Rent Increases. The report documents the experiences and amplifies the voices of low-income community members facing steep and illegal rent increases for poorly maintained buildings. In collaboration with tenants, YUCA produced the report to expose the abusive practices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extending Term Limits in New York City</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcoffey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Through referendums in 1993 and 1996, the people of New York City have supported term limits for elected officials. Still, self-made billionaire and two-term New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg seeks a third consecutive term based largely on the claim that his financial expertise is needed to help manage the fragile financial situation. Right to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington, DC Area Organizer Training Opportunities, Spring 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcoffey</dc:creator>
		
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The Praxis Project has announced the themes for their 2009 Learning Circles: Communicating to Advance Racial Justice (January 23-25), Community Organizing: Building Toward Long-Term Change (March 13-15) and Policy Advocacy: Creating Better Policies (May 29-31). Intended for individuals interested in advancing health justice in their communities, these sessions will be held in Silver Spring, Maryland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Face of the New Labor Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcoffey</dc:creator>
		
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HSF Program Officer, Shona Chakravartty collaborated with Jane Lin of the Tides Foundation and Charles Fields of the Marguerite Casey Foundation in organizing a panel for the 2008 Annual Conference of the Neighborhood Funders Group. The conference will be held October 1-3 in Los Angeles, California. Titled The Face of the New Labor Movement: A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOTV Activities Take Aim at Felon Disenfranchisement</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcoffey</dc:creator>
		
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States Restore Voting Rights for Ex-Convicts
By Solomon Moore
Source: New York Times
September 14, 2008 
 
“…Felony disenfranchisement — often a holdover from exclusionary Jim Crow-era laws like poll taxes and ballot box literacy tests — affects about 5.3 million former and current felons in the United States, according to voting rights groups. But voter registration and advocacy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defending Community Organizing</title>
		<link>http://podserver.listenshare.com/hillsnowdon/defending-community-organizing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcoffey</dc:creator>
		
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GOP Mocks Public Service at its Peril
By Peter Dreier &#38; John Atlas
Source: The Nation
September 5, 2008
 
“…For the first time in American history, a major political party devoted a substantial portion of its national convention to attacking grassroots organizing. Speaking Wednesday at the Republican National Convention, former New York Governor George Pataki sneered, ‘[Barack Obama] was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Katrina - Then and Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcoffey</dc:creator>
		
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As we mark the 3rd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the on-going man made disaster, here are two resources that we would like to share with you.  Trouble the Water is a new documentary which chronicles the amazing and tragic survival story of one couple during and after Hurricane Katrina. A Long Way Home: The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIRA Responds to ICE Raid</title>
		<link>http://podserver.listenshare.com/hillsnowdon/mira-responds-to-ice-raid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcoffey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Hundreds of Workers Held in Immigration Raid
By Adam Nossiter
Source: New York Times
August 26, 2008 
 
“Laurel, Miss. - In another large-scale workplace immigration crackdown, federal officials raided a factory here on Monday, detaining at least 350 workers they said were in the country illegally&#8230;.
 
Bill Chandler, executive director of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, called the Laurel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disciplinary Changes in Denver Public Schools</title>
		<link>http://podserver.listenshare.com/hillsnowdon/disciplinary-changes-in-denver-public-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://podserver.listenshare.com/hillsnowdon/disciplinary-changes-in-denver-public-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcoffey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Organizing]]></category>

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Board approves new DPS policy: Split vote marks apparent end to long, tangled fight
By Nancy Mitchell
Source: Rocky Mountain News
August 22, 2008 
 
Denver Public Schools board members approved a new student discipline policy Thursday on a split vote, overriding concerns that it may put some teachers at risk and push some students into police custody.
 
Board member [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foundation Releases Spring 2008 Grants List</title>
		<link>http://podserver.listenshare.com/hillsnowdon/foundation-releases-spring-2008-grants-list/</link>
		<comments>http://podserver.listenshare.com/hillsnowdon/foundation-releases-spring-2008-grants-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcoffey</dc:creator>
		
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The Hill-Snowdon Foundation is proud to release our most recent grants list. A total of 36 grants worth $1,035,000 were awarded across our Youth Organizing (20) and Economic Justice (16) Program Areas. All of the grants awarded were renewals. The geographic dispersion of these grants included 18 states with the largest clusters in California, Florida, Louisiana/Mississippi, Maryland/Virginia/Washington, DC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEMA Trailer Residents 30 Months after Katrina</title>
		<link>http://podserver.listenshare.com/hillsnowdon/louisiana-justice-institute-and-childrens-defense-fund-release-report-on-fema-trailer-residents/</link>
		<comments>http://podserver.listenshare.com/hillsnowdon/louisiana-justice-institute-and-childrens-defense-fund-release-report-on-fema-trailer-residents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcoffey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[




  
No Way To Treat Our People: FEMA Trailer Residents 30 Months after Katrina:
By the Louisiana Justice Institute and the Children&#8217;s Defense Fund
Source: Louisiana Justice Institute
April 30, 2008
&#8220;Nothing could prepare us for the sight of children running through the Baker, Louisiana FEMA trailer encampment during the middle of the school day. Where are the parents? Why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Payday Lenders Leave the District</title>
		<link>http://podserver.listenshare.com/hillsnowdon/payday-lenders-vanish-from-the-district/</link>
		<comments>http://podserver.listenshare.com/hillsnowdon/payday-lenders-vanish-from-the-district/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcoffey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Credit Unions Slowly Fill Void As Payday Lenders Leave D.C.
By Jordan Weissmann
Source: Washington Post
Saturday, July 26, 2008
&#8220;&#8230;In January, legislation went into effect capping interest rates in the District at 24 percent, effectively driving out the area&#8217;s payday lenders, whose business model is wedded to annualized rates of 300 percent and above. Credit unions are now [...]]]></description>
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