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	<title>Making Connections: MACDC&#039;s Blog &#187; Joe Kriesberg</title>
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		<title>Are You a Data Geek or a Data Poet?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Julianna Tschirhart Program Coordinator, The Mel King Institute for Community Building I have a confession to make: I am a data geek. I have been known to kill time by looking at the American Fact Finder website, exploring various zip codes in the New York Times Interactive Census Map, or planning hypothetical journeys on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could 2012 be the best year for Massachusetts CDCs since 1982?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting in the mid 1970s, Mel King and other visionary leaders of the community development movement worked systematically to build a support infrastructure for CDCs in Massachusetts. They understood that such a system could grow what was then a nascent movement of community based development organizations, largely in Boston, and transform it into a robust, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five (six) websites to bookmark in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With so much information available to us all the time, most of us could use some help sorting through the noise to find interesting and helpful information on the internet. While there are countless websites related to community development and affordable housing, here are five (well, O.K., six) that should be on your list: 1. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four key ideas that I heard at the New England Housing Network Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New England Housing Network held its annual conference in Needham, MA yesterday and the speakers and workshops provided a tremendous amount of information and insight into the current state of affairs in Washington, DC.   Four ideas that stood out for me: 1. It&#8217;s bad &#8211; but it could get worse:  The budget situation in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Must See T.V.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[60 Minutes did a very powerful piece on family homelessness recently.  I can&#8217;t say anything that would add to what the kids in this segment have to say about their lives, their parents and their dreams.  I simply ask that you watch it: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7389750n&#38;tag=contentBody;storyMediaBox]]></description>
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		<title>What do Roxbury and Arlington have in common?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In many ways, the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston and the suburban town of Arlington, Massachusetts are very different. Roxbury is a low income urban neighborhood with per capita income of about $16,000 and 86 percent of the population comprised of people of color. By contrast, Arlington has a per capita income of $44,000 and 86 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>21 Members in 14 Hours &#8211; A Community Development Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, I had an opportunity to see 21 MACDC members in the course of 14 hours. It was a long day, but extraordinarily exciting and reinvigorating as my travels and meetings reminded me why I love this job. I left my house at 6:40 AM in the pouring rain to attend the Greater Gardner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Opportunity Mapping take us in the wrong direction?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to bring greater attention to the persistent racial and economic segregation in Massachusetts, the Kirwin Institute  published a report in 2009 called the Geography of Opportunity: Building Opportunity in Massachusetts. The report documents the high level of racial and economic segregation that persists in our state and that people of color are much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to hire great employees</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/09/how-to-hire-great-employees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday, while Hurricane Irene roared through Boston, I had extra time to read the Sunday New York Times and found my way deep into the Business Section where I found a very interesting interview with Andy Lansing, the chief executive of Levy Restaurants in Chicago.  Mr Lansing is asked about how he hires good employees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The right to smoke versus the right to breathe</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/08/the-right-to-smoke-versus-the-right-to-breathe-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/08/the-right-to-smoke-versus-the-right-to-breathe-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first advocacy campaign of my life did not involve housing, community development, civil rights, the environment or even Vietnam. Instead, it was a years-long effort to get my mother to quit smoking! Every day, for years, I would interrogate her after school about how many cigarettes she had smoked that day. I was relentless, [...]]]></description>
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