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		<title>Hope for the Holidays: Arts in Alameda</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Ellson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout this holiday season, I&#8217;ve written posts about a number of worthy non-profits that need your help to thrive. But Alameda&#8217;s also got a host of great arts organizations too, and they could use your ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hope for the holidays: Alameda Education Foundation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Ellson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve reported recently, the Alameda Education Foundation has fallen on hard times. Like many nonprofits, the foundation has seen a sharp drop in donations. And the group&#8217;s leaders are saying they don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ll ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hope for the holidays: Boys and Girls Club of Alameda</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Ellson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wedged between the old Woodstock school and the jumble of squat apartment complexes that line Atlantic Avenue is a rubble-strewn lot. It might not seem like much to folks whizzing by in their cars at ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hope for the holidays: Alameda Point Collaborative</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Ellson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 20, 2006 was an unforgettable day in Violeta Espinoza&#8217;s life: It was the day the folks out at the Alameda Point Collaborative handed her the keys to her own apartment.
On that day, Espinoza, a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hope for the holidays: Alameda Food Bank</title>
		<link>http://www.theislandofalameda.com/2008/12/hope-for-the-holidays-alameda-food-bank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Ellson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most people, Kristina Thelen has had her ups and downs.
Thelen has held a variety of customer service-type jobs, but she&#8217;s been out of work for the past year and a half. She watched her ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hope for the holidays: Building Futures with Women and Children</title>
		<link>http://www.theislandofalameda.com/2008/11/hope-for-the-holidays-building-futures-with-women-and-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Ellson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vezelda Allen has struggled with drugs and domestic violence and was bouncing from hotel to hotel until about six months ago, when she finally decided she had enough. She called Building Futures with Women &#38; ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hope for the holidays: Meals on Wheels</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Ellson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Bill Martin had a heart attack over five years ago, he got a lot of advice about things he could do to get better. One piece of advice was to call Meals on Wheels.
Every ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hope for the holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know these are tough times. Unemployment is up, the stock market is down, the housing market is sliding, the Doobie Brothers broke up &#8230;
Anyway, there are a lot of people in need out ...]]></description>
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