{"id":548,"date":"2005-12-24T00:21:22","date_gmt":"2005-12-24T05:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/?p=548"},"modified":"2005-12-29T14:46:27","modified_gmt":"2005-12-29T19:46:27","slug":"small-change-feedsneeds-global-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/12\/24\/small-change-feedsneeds-global-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Change Feeds\/Needs Global Community &#8212; Now Offers Free Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a deal.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pledgebank.com\/catcomm\">Pledge $10 a month<\/a> to support a fantastic community program, and if 199 others do the same, you could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pledgebank.com\/catcomm\">win a free trip to Rio<\/a>.  Doing good doesn&#8217;t get much better than this.  What&#8217;s more, 133 people have already signed up, so only 66 more needed &#8212; but the deadline is NOW &#8212; December 31st!  <\/p>\n<p>The goal is to raise core funding for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catcomm.org\">Catalytic Communities<\/a>, founded by my friend Theresa Williamson, to serve some of the poorest parts of Rio and replicate their successes around the world.  It&#8217;s as simple as $10 a month! <\/p>\n<p>CatComm is developing, inspiring and empowering a global network of communities to generate and share solutions.  CatComm connects communities through spaces both physical and virtual. The &#8220;Casa&#8221; model networking hub in Rio de Janeiro offers a space for face-to-face events and Web access for community leaders across that metro region.  A Community Solutions Database and other online tools make searchable, detailed, community-generated solutions to everyday challenges available across languages and borders.<\/p>\n<p>Join us, if you can, in supporting this good work &#8212; and if we reach 200 pledges, you might get to go see it for yourself, in Rio.  This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/small-change-news\">SmallChangeNews<\/a> at it&#8217;s best.  <\/p>\n<p>Please do link to this, and spread it around, if you can!<\/p>\n<p>technorati:<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/smallchangenews\" rel=\"tag\">smallchangenews<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a deal. Pledge $10 a month to support a fantastic community program, and if 199 others do the same, you could win a free trip to Rio. Doing good doesn&#8217;t get much better than this. What&#8217;s more, 133 people have already signed up, so only 66 more needed &#8212; but the deadline is NOW &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/12\/24\/small-change-feedsneeds-global-community\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Small Change Feeds\/Needs Global Community &#8212; Now Offers Free Trip&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-care","category-smallchangenews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}