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	<title>Giving Party</title>
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	<description>Don't just give until it hurts...give until it feels good.</description>
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		<title>Only sharing the good news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across this blog today because they picked up our Giving Party story. The site is called Golden Goods and they only publish good news. They (correctly!) claim that whatever you give your focus, energy and attention to is what you get more of in life&#8230;so why not focus on the good stuff? Very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givingparty.wordpress.com&blog=1790023&post=46&subd=givingparty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Read all about it&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in today&#8217;s News &#38; Observer! There&#8217;s a nice article about our little party that grew and grew&#8230;and as the totals now stand, the 3 Giving Parties held last Thursday raised over $30,000! Our Chapel Hill party raised $15,000 from our guests, plus $2000 in matching Habitat for Humanity of Orange County gifts, plus $5000 in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givingparty.wordpress.com&blog=1790023&post=44&subd=givingparty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://givingparty.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/read-all-about-it/</link>
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		<title>Giving Party Totals&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[are still rolling in. The Chapel Hill party was amazing and so much fun&#8230;and we raised over $15,000 for the organizations represented! I&#8217;ll have more details as we pull in all of the numbers, but once again we were all just blown away by the generosity of our friends!
Our sister parties also had amazing nights&#8211;Charleston [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givingparty.wordpress.com&blog=1790023&post=42&subd=givingparty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://givingparty.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/giving-party-totals/</link>
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		<title>New website&#8230;check us out!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out our new site at www.giving-party.org. You can now read about our Giving Party plans online at that site and contact us at info@giving-party.org. I&#8217;ll be reporting on the success of the Live Small.Give Big party in Charlotte and the Low Country Giving Party in Charleston on the site, as well as reporting from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givingparty.wordpress.com&blog=1790023&post=39&subd=givingparty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://givingparty.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/new-websitecheck-us-out/</link>
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		<title>Give, because Peter Walsh says so&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Walsh, the Aussie organizer and Oprah&#8217;s personal pick for organizing folks on her show, just included this in his monthly newsletter regarding holiday gift giving:
Consider giving an “experience” rather than a “thing”
All of us are in tight economic times – keep this in mind going into the holiday season.  A concert, theater ticket, restaurant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givingparty.wordpress.com&blog=1790023&post=35&subd=givingparty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://givingparty.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/give-because-peter-walsh-says-so/</link>
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		<title>Bummer&#8230;Bill&#8217;s going to be in Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh well&#8230;I&#8217;ll keep inviting him. Perhaps a few other surprise celebrity guests will be there? You have to come and give to find out!
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		<link>http://givingparty.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/bummerbills-going-to-be-in-africa/</link>
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		<title>Bill Clinton on the guest list&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just sent off my invitation to President Clinton for this year&#8217;s Giving Party. I invited him last year since his book &#8220;Giving&#8221; helped to inspire the idea for our party. I received a very nice RSVP call from his office letting me know he couldn&#8217;t make it, and a signed letter from him congratulating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givingparty.wordpress.com&blog=1790023&post=31&subd=givingparty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://givingparty.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/bill-clinton-on-the-guest-list/</link>
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		<title>More giving parties&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we first cooked up this idea of a Giving Party, we weren&#8217;t thinking beyond Chapel Hill. But once we saw the response we thought we should spread the good word and encourage others to throw their own parties. And now that&#8217;s starting to happen. A &#8220;Live Small, Give Big&#8221; giving party is being hosted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givingparty.wordpress.com&blog=1790023&post=29&subd=givingparty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://givingparty.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/more-giving-parties/</link>
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		<title>Feelin&#8217; the love&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons the Giving Party is so much fun is that it&#8217;s an easy party to pull together. I&#8217;m just blown away by the generosity of people in our community. You invite them, they come, and they give so generously! One amazing example of this is the Brader-Araje Foundation. Last year, we invited [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givingparty.wordpress.com&blog=1790023&post=25&subd=givingparty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://givingparty.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/feelin-the-love/</link>
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		<title>Save the date&#8230;Giving Party &#8216;08!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We just had our first organizational meeting for our giving party this year. Given the horrendous economic news and the neck-and-neck political campaign, I can&#8217;t think of a better time to have something positive to focus on. This year, Diane Belden has graciously offered her amazing home for the party. Casey Saussy has joined me, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givingparty.wordpress.com&blog=1790023&post=23&subd=givingparty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://givingparty.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/save-the-dategiving-party-08/</link>
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