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		<title>Surgance to provide relief for Haitian family</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Surgance mission is to channel uncommon partners toward common ground social issues in order to change lives and transform communities for the better.  Through a growing partnership with Race for the Soul, Surgance will provide relief for a Haitian family with local ties to Columbus, Ohio. Ryan Becker, born January 26,1997 in Haiti, was adopted by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.surgance.com/?p=368</link>
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		<title>Spread the idea as far as you possibly can</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A good friend of Surgance Program Director Andy Milligan is Dr. James Haywood Rolling, Jr. Dr. Rolling is a dual associate professor in art education and teaching and leadership at Syracuse University. He&#8217;s been thinking and writing for several years about how the arts apply to community transformation, social entrepreneurship, social justice and responsibility, youth empowerment, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.surgance.com/?p=362</link>
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		<title>Video: Seth Godin on The Tribes We Lead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than anything else, Surgance is a movement of people and organizations desiring to work together and collaborate for the common good. Sometimes we are catalysts, sometimes we provide resources. Sometimes we lend a hand or a strong voice to an issue that needs to change so that positive change can come to communities or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.surgance.com/?p=350</link>
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		<title>Core competence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a series on CORE COMPETENCE done by The Economist on Sep 15th  of 2008, we learned that the idea of core competence was introduced into management literature in 1990 by C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel. Core competence is a part of the bedrock of the Surgance movement and worth discussing. In the series, the two business [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.surgance.com/?p=345</link>
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		<title>The nonprofit starvation cycle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Surgance is a great investment for the catalytic donor. Our entire organization and our ethos even, is built around a scalable, centralized model of operations that keeps social entrepreneurs and innovators from having to recreate the wheel. The economies of scale that we bring to the market combined with the leverage and legitimacy of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.surgance.com/?p=326</link>
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		<title>Valley Elementary School Partnering with Surgance on School Transformation Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Valley Elementary School in Pelham, AL is getting a facelift on the inside and out thanks to the efforts of local volunteers from the nonprofit organization Surgance. Projects planned for the school include painting 18 classrooms and a portion of the cafeteria, landscaping an outdoor courtyard area, cleaning the school, and helping teachers move into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.surgance.com/?p=307</link>
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		<title>Surgance President and CEO Brian Audia one of top 40 alumni</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Surgance President and CEO Brian D. Audia has been honored by Auburn University at Montgomery as one of its top 40 alumni. Formal recognition was given to the 40 by Chancellor Dr. John Veres III at the spring graduation ceremony May 15, 2010. The group included doctors, attorneys, authors, educators, social crusaders, businessmen, war heroes, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.surgance.com/?p=298</link>
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		<title>Surgance moves to Boston!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Surgance movement has a new corporate address and phone number: 225 Franklin Street 26th Floor Boston, MA 02110 Phone 617.217.2184 Office hours are from 8:30am until 5:00pm Monday through Friday, Eastern time. In recognition of the grand opening, company President and CEO Brian Audia said, “Surgance is growing every single day as a nonprofit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.surgance.com/?p=233</link>
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		<title>The Vision, History, Mission, and Strategy of the Surgance Movement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The vision behind the Surgance movement is to see communities transformed and lives changed in positive ways. The individuals behind the Surgance movement have a long track record of success catalyzing and managing humanitarian and social service projects across the country and around the world. We have mobilized and managed nearly 100,000 volunteers in over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.surgance.com/?p=16</link>
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		<title>Get on the Bus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What stops you from doing something extraordinary...now?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.surgance.com/?p=85</link>
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