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		<title>Melissa featured on Acumen Fund Blog!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Richer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Melissa spoke with us about how she plans on carving out a space for microfranchising in the world of social entrepreneurship. Clearly her plan for Allyu is ambitious, but armed with a solid foundation and an optimal network of institutional supporters (including Ashoka andAlianca Empreendedora) she is already on the path to realizing her aims. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aylluinitiative.wordpress.com&blog=6611347&post=1222&subd=aylluinitiative&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Richer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended the StartingBloc Institute in 2008. This Fellowship continues to be one of the defining communities for Ayllu. Top 3 reasons why:

Network &#8211; It&#8217;s cross-sector and engaged
Friends &#8211; Founders need all the peer support they can get
Knowledge &#8211; diverse perspectives, thorough conversations


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		<title>Você fala português? Entrevista com nosso parceiro: Fundador de Aliança Empreendedora</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Richer</dc:creator>
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		<title>Face It!  Wal-Mart Makes Us Richer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ the economic development problem is not just about increasing people's incomes. It's just as much about increasing relative wealth by making access to goods and services more affordable. 
And that brings us to the real problem of having markets that are exclusive.  Exclusive markets not only support relative poverty and the uneven distribution of wealth but exacerbate it.
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		<title>Public Speaking this Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be speaking this week in Atlanta with Gray Ghost Ventures and at the Economic Self-Reliance Conference at BYU in Provo, Utah. If you&#8217;re in the area, let me know!
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		<title>New Video of our Vision!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Richer</dc:creator>
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		<title>Nov. 3 in Atlanta: You&#8217;re invited! How to Scale&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Richer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Microfranchising can Scale Social Enterprise and Microfinance Institutions

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
6:30pm &#8211; 8:30pm (6:30-7:00 Registration and Reception; 8:00-8:30 Program)
Location: Fisher &#38; Phillips LLP &#8211; 1700 Resurgens Plaza, 945 East Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA (see parking and Marta directions below)
Cost: Non-students: $10, students: free. You can make your payment at the registration table by cash or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aylluinitiative.wordpress.com&blog=6611347&post=1142&subd=aylluinitiative&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing Ayllu-Aliança Partnership</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Richer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ayllu is thrilled to announce partnership with Aliança Empreendedora, a Brazilian organization that creates opportunities for microentrepreneurs. Together, we are launching a 12-month pilot in Curitiba, Brazil.
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		<title>Initial Findings: What does Social Enterprise look like worldwide?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evanchen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I developed a system to categorize social enterprises and used these categories to identify trends. We paid attention to mission, target demographic, location, maturity, growth models, and microfranchise potential. The list also maps technologies for the poor and Multinational Corporations (MNCs) that use microfranchising in low-income markets. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aylluinitiative.wordpress.com&blog=6611347&post=1028&subd=aylluinitiative&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Colleagues: Melissa &amp; Mike meet in Person for 1st Time</title>
		<link>http://aylluinitiative.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/how-twitter-launched-ayllu-melissa-mike-meet-in-person-for-first-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Richer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In April after 1.5 years of trying, and failing, to launch a good website probono, twitter changed Ayllu&#8217;s &#8216;life.&#8217; We learned how to use wordpress and in reading &#8216;how to blog&#8217; articles, Melissa saw that twitter seemed important, so she created an account. Then everything changed. We put out good content so people &#8216;retweeted&#8217; (forwarded) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aylluinitiative.wordpress.com&blog=6611347&post=995&subd=aylluinitiative&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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