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		<title>The Day That Changed My Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi Cuppari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear visitor, If you are here, you probably care about the world.  I need your help to spread the word about this unique and sustainable approach to poverty. I’ve been working at iDE for nearly 2 years, but the moment &#8230; <a href="http://heidicuppari.com/2011/12/the-day-that-changed-my-life/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating Ten Years of Acumen Fund &#8211; Joy, Humility, and Bollywood Style Flash Mobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi Cuppari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I stepped out of the taxi in front of the Skylight SoHo in NYC last Thursday, I took a deep breath.  I was about to walk in to the celebration of Acumen Fund&#8216;s 10 year anniversary. During my time &#8230; <a href="http://heidicuppari.com/2011/11/celebrating-ten-years-of-acumen-fund-joy-humility-and-bollywood-style-flash-mobs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What does it mean to you to operate from a heart-centered place in business?</title>
		<link>http://heidicuppari.com/2011/10/heart-in-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi Cuppari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer, I was asked to do a 14 minute &#8220;TED&#8221; style talk at Harvard&#8217;s Igniting Innovation Summit on October 1 by the enterprising undergraduate chair, Kara Kubarych.  Earlier this year, I had conducted a guest lecture in David Ager&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://heidicuppari.com/2011/10/heart-in-business/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who Can Change the World? Live from &quot;SocEnt Valley&quot;.. Boulder, CO</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi Cuppari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As George Bernard Shaw once said, &#8221;The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in adapting the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man [&#38; woman].&#8221; This quote inspired a group of brilliant &#8230; <a href="http://heidicuppari.com/2010/03/who-can-change-the-world-live-from-socent-alley-boulder-co/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hot Stuff in Miami..</title>
		<link>http://heidicuppari.com/2010/02/hot-stuff-in-miami/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi Cuppari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why should you go to Miami from March 17-19? Because.. its snowy almost every place else in the US this time of year and you need SUN?  Or because you can stroll on South Beach and see lots of thongs &#8230; <a href="http://heidicuppari.com/2010/02/hot-stuff-in-miami/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>YOU can be a micro-loan financier!</title>
		<link>http://heidicuppari.com/2009/12/you-can-be-a-micro-loan-financier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi Cuppari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow &#8211; I&#8217;ve been following micr0-loans and micro-finance since I visited my friend Chandra Reddy Metzler, now a senior investment banker in emerging markets, when she lived in Nairobi, Kenya on a Fullbright for 6 months in the year 2000.  &#8230; <a href="http://heidicuppari.com/2009/12/you-can-be-a-micro-loan-financier/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;Everywun&quot; makes giving possible for everyone!</title>
		<link>http://heidicuppari.com/2009/11/everywun-makes-giving-possible-for-everyone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi Cuppari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my quest for learning and awareness around the social entrepreneurship space, and through my participation in marketing for the Angel Capital Summit in Denver which was held last week, I&#8217;ve come across some really cool stuff lately. The Angel &#8230; <a href="http://heidicuppari.com/2009/11/everywun-makes-giving-possible-for-everyone/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How the recession is HELPING people..</title>
		<link>http://heidicuppari.com/2009/09/how-the-recession-is-helping-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi Cuppari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello and welcome to my blog on optimism.. I&#8221;ll be posting good news and interesting tidbits I find from around the world. One of my favorite magazines is Ode Magazine, and I check their website a few times a week &#8230; <a href="http://heidicuppari.com/2009/09/how-the-recession-is-helping-people/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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