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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been reading a lot on Metafilter and various blogs about the Occupy Wall Street movement and the 99 percenters, which has brought up an issue which has nagged me for a while; it is sometimes mindbogglingly difficult for me to reconcile my background and my beliefs with the sector I work in. Philanthropy inevitably [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vanessameachen.net/2011/10/13/24/</link>
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		<title>Sunday: the day of civilised happenings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our first full day in London (well, this trip, anyway)! Sadly, the sun wasn&#8217;t out for most of the morning and we did get rained on a bit in the afternoon. However, we spent much of the day doing terribly cliched and magnificently fun English things: Verity visited a red phone booth! We saw the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vanessameachen.net/2010/08/30/sunday-the-day-of-civilised-happenings/</link>
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		<title>Normal service to resume shortly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heh. It&#8217;s been a while Mind you, most of that was because I lost my password and the retrieve password script doesn&#8217;t seem to have worked. Since I last wrote there have been good times, bad times and interesting times. Overall things are good. Blog has been revived. Huzzah!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vanessameachen.net/2010/08/16/normal-service-to-resume-shortly/</link>
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		<title>A chilly city suits a troubled soul</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided that I really need to do something with this blog, like actually update it once in a while. The reasons for my long absence, in approximate chronological order, are: Heavier workload as a result of: staff at work leaving and being only partly replaced; the Black Saturday bushfires; the Treasury inquiry into PPFs; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vanessameachen.net/2009/07/08/a-chilly-city-suits-a-troubled-soul/</link>
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		<title>Crisis!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been busy. I went overseas (Paris and the UK; wonderful) on holiday and then came back to a conference, which had its own behind-the-scenes drama (but don&#8217;t they all?) And of course, while I was away in September, the big credit crunch / economic crisis / whatever you want to call it happened. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vanessameachen.net/2008/11/11/crisis/</link>
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		<title>Philanthropy can&#8217;t do everything</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just come back from doing grantseeker workshops in Canberra and Merimbula, and I&#8217;m off again this week for Sydney and Brisbane. I think it&#8217;s two months since I had a week where I haven&#8217;t hopped on a plane and spent a few nights away, apart from the week I was too sick. Normally I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vanessameachen.net/2008/06/09/philanthropy-cant-do-everything/</link>
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		<title>Travel tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I updated, hasn&#8217;t it? That&#8217;s due to a number of factors. I spent most of February travelling around doing workshops for the Not for Profit Network, and adding to my collection of travel horror stories (like having my flight from Perth cancelled, hanging round there for hours in stinking heat, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vanessameachen.net/2008/05/29/travel-tips/</link>
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		<title>GiveWell fallout blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For me a lot of the GiveWell/Metafilter controversy hit home because I believe passionately in philanthropy. I also believe passionately in online community. I participate in both. Philanthropy pays my bills, since I&#8217;m a paid philanthropoid, but I also believe in its potential. I believe in what it has achieved. And online community &#8211; which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vanessameachen.net/2008/01/23/givewell-fallout-blogs/</link>
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		<title>Catching bullets in our teeth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was at Ben&#8217;s party on Friday night, meeting the lovely Sam from Tunng, a question about Australians&#8217; attitudes to international poverty came up and Ben asked me my opinion since I work in the sector. After a bit of discussion, one of Ben&#8217;s friends turned to me and said, wonderingly &#8220;So your job [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vanessameachen.net/2008/01/23/catching-bullets-in-our-teeth/</link>
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		<title>I are serious cat. This is serious blog.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why a serious blog? Couple of reasons. 1. I really want to have something where I can share links and interesting stories, etc, as well as travel details, with colleagues and family. Most of the other social networking sites I have are full of rants and rambles and silly games and other stuff which is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vanessameachen.net/2008/01/22/i-are-serious-cat-this-is-serious-blog/</link>
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