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	<description>The world's too small to not think big</description>
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		<title>DCPS Recognizes LSI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) issued a partnership letter to LearnServe International, officially recognizing the high value of LSI&#8217;s work with students in the District. The Chancellor of DCPS expressed her gratitude to LSI for:
&#8220;&#8230;working to provide our students with an opportunity to develop skills around social entrepreneurship in both a local and global [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn-serve.org/2010/01/26/dcps-recognizes-lsi/</link>
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		<title>Linowes&#8217; Leadership Award for Scott Rechler, Director of LSI Fellows Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Scott Rechler, Director of the LearnServe Fellows Program, who was awarded the 2009 Linowes Leadership Award by the Community Foundation of the National Capital Region.  Introduced in 1997, the Linowes Leadership Awards annual recognize &#8220;unsung heroes&#8221; who exercise their community leadership across multiple sectors.  The award honors the legacy of R. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn-serve.org/2009/12/11/linowes-leadership-award-for-scott-rechler-director-of-lsi-fellows-program/</link>
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		<title>LSI&#8217;s 3rd Annual Innovators Coffee House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
James speaks

LSI held the 3rd Annual Innovators Coffee House for the Fellows program yesterday. Fellows presented creative, one-minute descriptions of the issues they most care about and the solutions they propose to address them. Some of the ideas are quite advanced while others are still preliminary, and all will evolve over spring semester. 
The coffee [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn-serve.org/2009/12/09/lsis-3rd-annual-innovators-coffee-house/</link>
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		<title>Congratulations to Past Fellows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several former Fellows have been recognized recently:

Ashley Richardson, LSI Fellow &#8216;08 from Hyde Public Charter School, is a Freshman at Grinnell College and a Posse Scholar, a four year scholarship. She also writes that she hopes to someday start her own non-profit based on what she learned in the Fellows program.
Victoria Wang, LSI Fellow &#8216;09 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn-serve.org/2009/11/17/congratulations-to-past-fellows/</link>
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		<title>The year in review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are proud to announce LSI&#8217;s first annual report. While our programs are already five years old, our first four years were under the auspices of Washington International School as the Center for International Education. One year ago, we became an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization to better serve our rich diversity of schools and to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn-serve.org/2009/10/22/the-year-in-review/</link>
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		<title>Kicking Off the Fellows Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
&#8216;09-&#8217;10 LSI Fellows

51 of this year&#8217;s LSI Fellows kicked off the 2009-2010 program year with a weekend retreat to the For Love of Children Outdoor Education Center in West Virginia. The Fellows challenged themselves on the ropes course, began honing their skills as leaders, and came together as a dynamic group committed to changing their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn-serve.org/2009/10/15/kicking-off-the-fellows-program/</link>
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		<title>Fellows 2009-10 Begins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2009-10 Fellows year has begun with 60 Fellows selected from 35 schools across the DC area. For the next eight months LSI will train the next generation of changemakers. View the calendar of upcoming meetings.




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		<link>http://learn-serve.org/2009/09/15/fellows-2009-10-begins/</link>
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		<title>Making a Difference</title>
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After a hard day&#8217;s work, LSP ‘09

The 2009 summer LearnServe Trips to Paraguay and Zambia returned in July. As always, there were revelations and defining moments such as this one from Nathan in Paraguay:
This trip had given me a much better perspective on the magnitude of poverty in some places in the world. It has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn-serve.org/2009/07/28/making-a-difference/</link>
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		<title>Reflecting on LSP ‘09</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Cultural Center in Santa Ana

Harry
My defining moment was when I witnessed a man sowing his torn soccer shoes. And it hit me, if someone in a America even had a couple of scratches on their shoes they would buy new ones. so that showed me how materialistic things are not important to Paraguayans because they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn-serve.org/2009/07/28/reflecting-on-lsp09/</link>
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		<title>Muzungu!</title>
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LSZ ‘09 students on the last day

It is hard to believe that just 18 days ago, 15 students and 9 teachers from the DC area were heading off to Zambia together for the first time with some having never even been on a plane before. Not too many of us can say our first time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn-serve.org/2009/07/08/muzungu/</link>
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