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		<title>been moved by kony 2012? some {hopefully} helpful ideas</title>
		<link>http://sowinghope.net/2012/03/12/been-moved-by-kony-2012-some-hopefully-helpful-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now if you have internet access, you likely have heard of the Kony 2012 phenomenon.  Love it, hate it, think it&#8217;s fabulous, think it&#8217;s awful or any where in between: it has proven the amazing power of a skillfully orchestrated social media marketing campaign to make influential waves. Would that all of us might [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sowinghope.net&amp;blog=24167088&amp;post=240&amp;subd=sowinghope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>an open letter in response to kony 2012</title>
		<link>http://sowinghope.net/2012/03/10/an-open-letter-in-response-to-kony-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Perry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sowinghope.net/?p=231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I realize by posting this I may be inviting some controversy. It is not my heart to be controversial at all. I am simply offering an alternative perspective from someone who spends a great deal of her time in the border regions that have the most to loose if the consequences of this campaign turn [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sowinghope.net&amp;blog=24167088&amp;post=231&amp;subd=sowinghope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the WELL</title>
		<link>http://sowinghope.net/2012/03/05/the-well/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Perry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sowinghope.net/?p=227</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What does real power look like?  The power to feed your family and not be taken advantage of because of economic vulnerabilities?  Today was an amazing one.  After sitting with a few of our partner organization&#8217;s key leaders, the Women&#8217;s Entrepreneurial Leadership League (WELL) was born.  It is for me a personal dream of many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sowinghope.net&amp;blog=24167088&amp;post=227&amp;subd=sowinghope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>when to quit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 06:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Perry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sowinghope.net/?p=223</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not the only one who caught on that the time-old adage on winners might be missing the point. Shocker, I know.   Seth Godin, who is rapidly becoming a favorite author of mine, wrote a whole New York Times bestselling little book on the topic that I somehow missed living in the bush [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sowinghope.net&amp;blog=24167088&amp;post=223&amp;subd=sowinghope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>winners quit</title>
		<link>http://sowinghope.net/2012/02/29/winners-quit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embracing Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation & Entrepreneurship]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sowinghope.net/?p=217</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am sure you have heard it said: Winners never quit and quitters never win.  We hear pithy one liners and somehow they creep their way into the fabric with which we clothe our worlds.  It all sounds so good. But here&#8217;s the truth.  Winners quit.  ALL the time.  They simply know how, when and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sowinghope.net&amp;blog=24167088&amp;post=217&amp;subd=sowinghope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>if you&#8217;ve never failed&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://sowinghope.net/2012/01/25/if-youve-never-failed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hope Seeds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend posted this on Facebook this morning&#8230; what a great reminder that failing is only apart of learning to fly!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sowinghope.net&amp;blog=24167088&amp;post=200&amp;subd=sowinghope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>how do you want the clothes washed?</title>
		<link>http://sowinghope.net/2012/01/13/how-do-you-want-the-clothes-washed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Building Strong Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inside Out Leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sowinghope.net/?p=188</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is 2006.  I am surrounded by a still foreign landscape of blowing dirt, elephant grass and UN conveys.  Some mornings I wonder if I accidentally got trapped in a National Geographic magazine.  It is all a bit surreal and I am on a journey to find my place in the strange new world around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sowinghope.net&amp;blog=24167088&amp;post=188&amp;subd=sowinghope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the high cost of chocolate</title>
		<link>http://sowinghope.net/2012/01/10/the-human-cost-of-chocolate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Involvement & Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slavery & Human Trafficking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sowinghope.net/?p=174</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[west african child slaves working with cocoa beans Kudos to CNN for standing up and being heard in efforts to raise awareness and help stop modern day slavery through their Freedom Project.  Part of their coverage includes issues going on in Ivory Coast and other parts of West Africa.  You may or may not be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sowinghope.net&amp;blog=24167088&amp;post=174&amp;subd=sowinghope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>whiteboard not included</title>
		<link>http://sowinghope.net/2012/01/09/whiteboard-not-included/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[21 Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the S3 Edge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[He stares incredulously from across an over-sized desk; his eyes stretched wide in disbelief.  The pause, pregnant with uncertainty, calls out to me to say something, anything to relieve the awkward expanse of silence.  Outside the September 2006 air is swollen with rain waiting to explode from a blackening sky in the middle of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sowinghope.net&amp;blog=24167088&amp;post=144&amp;subd=sowinghope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a season of firsts</title>
		<link>http://sowinghope.net/2011/12/28/seasonof/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hope Seeds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am so grateful to be spending the Christmas season with my beautiful South Sudanese family as we celebrate the first ever Christmas and New Years in this new nation!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sowinghope.net&amp;blog=24167088&amp;post=133&amp;subd=sowinghope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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