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		<title>Update on YouImpact.us &#8211; Loss of Momentum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Auren Kaplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not all news is good news.  YouImpact.us is in a state of flux after different opinions over the focus of direction have lead to decreased momentum.  Read why, and where we stand.]]></description>
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		<title>YouImpact.us Business/Revenue Model in a Nutshell</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Auren Kaplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so you&#8217;ve decided you want to donate $100 towards funding a school. If you knew that by tweeting about your donation, you could raise more $ for your cause by 50%, would you be more likely to? If you knew that every time a follower of yours retweeted your tweet, your cause would make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming Funding Opportunities in #Socent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Auren Kaplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My YouImpact.us team met via phone conference today to hash out a preliminary schedule for moving forward. We also talked about the scope of our company moving forward, and exactly how niche we want to be. Basically, YouImpact.us aims to coordinate the easy donating of money and volunteering your time, and then make it as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idea:  The Entrepreneurship Hub</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Auren Kaplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I read about this idea, it hit me over the head because I&#8217;ve experienced its benefits first-hand. You get a bunch of entrepreneurial types together in a workspace. You let them work. And magic happens. This is exactly what happened at Startup Weekends across the country just three weeks ago (I attended Startup Weekend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HBS #Socent Business Plan Comp:  Feb 8, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Auren Kaplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The date is still months away. But&#8217;s it&#8217;s never too early to prepare.  The Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Inititative is sponsoring a business plan that can provide great feedback and funding for your social venture.   YouImpact.us will certainly be applying for this competition. You get feedback from philanthropists, venture capitalists, as well as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The @EchoingGreen Application Pt. 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Auren Kaplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re a community of social entrepreneurs and innovators. And so it behooves me to share my work with you all. Below, and the next few blog posts as well, will convey my responses to the Echoing Green application fellowship &#8211; I applied with my partner Fernando Santillan. When we get feedback on our application, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YouImpact.us Applying for @EchoingGreen Fellowship</title>
		<link>http://socentex.com/2009/12/youimpact-us-applying-for-echoing-green-fellowship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Auren Kaplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official &#8211; I am applying for the Echoing Green fellowship to raise funds and expertise for the development of YouImpact.us.  I&#8217;ll respond back later with the actual application questions (and my responses).  I wish more people would share these things.  People in the community of #socent will be able to learn from my mistakes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA Startup Weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Auren Kaplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine putting a bunch of entrepreneurs in a room for 54 hours and not letting them out.  Sure, you can give them pizza and chinese food.  But don&#8217;t distract them.  They&#8217;ve got innovations to plan, ideas to spark and worlds to change.  If this sounds interesting to you, then you&#8217;d be fascinated (and eager to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Social Entrepreneurship Exchange!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Auren Kaplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This site originally emerged as an idea to serve as a funding mechanism &#8211; a match.com, if you will &#8211; between venture funders and social entrepreneurs.  I had thought long and hard about the need for a simple platform connecting social entrepreneurs with funders.  One might consider it a Kiva.org for social entrepreneurs, with entrepreneurs [...]]]></description>
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