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Issue #11: December, 2008

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Greetings!,

Around this time of year many non-profit organizations send out an appeal for donations.  While we certainly welcome and need financial support (and will send that letter another day :-), in this end-of-year message we want to share our appreciation and gratitude for the many ways you have offered your love and collaboration in 2008.
 
To our financial contributors
We'd like to gratefully acknowledge the individuals and organizations who provided financial support to the World Café Community Foundation in 2008. Your donations are invaluable. In these challenging times your financial contributions, large and small, are helping us take the "minimum elegant next steps" that enable this work to thrive around the globe. We simply couldn't do it without you. Thank you so much!

(a list of 2008 financial contributors follows at the end of this letter)

To the incredible stewards of the World Café
  • the global stewards all over the world who've given so generously of their time, money, wisdom and love to help guide the World Café forward this year
  • the regional stewards who share the gift of the World Café within their geographic areas (and sometimes far beyond) and help care for the ever-expanding community that springs up in its wake
  • the devoted stewards who support the partnerships and goals of World Café research; who champion our inter-generational focus; who guide our learning program development, care for our virtual communications, help to prototype World Cafés online; and are helping develop an innovative resourcing ecology that will allow the World Café to thrive, whatever the future may bring.
To each and every steward who gives so much to nurture the World Café in serving life-affirming futures - we can't thank you enough!

To the dedicated World Café hosts on six continents around the world
You who answer questions on the Online Community Forum, who have have gifted a portion of your professional fees to help support the "whole", who share your stories and photographs with the global network and join in the conversations to help inform the future of the World Café; to all of you who care about the World Café and share its spirit with others  - Thank you!

To each of you who subscribe to this newsletter and stay connected with us
Thank you, too. We appreciate your feedback, your questions, your presence and support.

To our sister organizations and all those who foster conversations that matter
Thank you for being there and aligning with us and other kindred networks to strengthen our common voice.

In addition to the wonderful World Café community and our other friends and colleagues, this year we also give thanks for the opportunities that await us in 2009. We particularly welcome the promise of a new supportive climate for community development and citizen activism, one that calls upon each of us to use our skills and our knowledge to initiate & engage in the important conversations of our time.

May this year bring us all closer together, give us a powerful collective voice for good, and see a happier, more prosperous, balanced and caring world for all.

Warm Wishes,

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Amy Lenzo
On Behalf of the World Café Community Foundation

Tom Hurley
Anne Dosher
Juanita Brown
David Isaacs
 
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 2008 Financial Contributions

Special thanks to the Whitman Institute for their grant for general operating support


4Charity Foundation
Browning Mezel
Center for the Advancement of Youth
Children's Garden Studio (Kia Woods)
Connection Partners, Inc. (Sharon Joy Kleitsch)
Ecstasis LLC (Greg Giuliano and Neil Olson)
Harvest Moon Consulting
Novella (Jaap Voerman)
Open Circle Company (Peggy Holman)
Whole Systems Associates (Juanita Brown)
Wisnet Consulting (Eduardo Afonso)


Frances Baldwin
Christine Bell
Alan and Sharon Blake
Keith Brown
Esther Cameron
Laura Carter
Barbe Chambliss
Christine Chopyak
Nancy E. Couch
Joe Donofrio
Marimba Giam
Julie Gieseke
Abigail Ginzberg
Marie Glavin
Deborah Goldblatt
Roger and Margaret Harrison
Thomas J. Hurley
David Isaacs
Amy Lenzo
Gay Luce
Carlos Mota
Debra Palmer
Donatella Pastorino
Laura Peck
Teresa Posakony
Christine Whitney Sanchez
Julia Simmons
M. Strobbe
Beverly Suderman
Lisa Suits
Nancy Sullivan
Mary Vickers-Koch
Louann Virgil and David Blumenkrantz
Elke Wunderlich
Genevieve Yancey






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