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		<title>What Can Nature Teach Us About Business?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We created the Opportunity Community as a means of taking ordinary business networking to the next level.  Beyond transactional networking to an organic process that creates community and invites extraordinary conversations. Here&#8217;s an example of a question we posed at our most recent August 9th gathering: &#8221; What does Nature have to teach us about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opportunity Community August 11th Meeting at Wave Hill- Nature Inspires Us to Be Our Best</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our third OC meeting at the extraordinary and historic Wave Hill Gardens in Riverdale promises to bring inspiration and opportunity for deep conversation as we delight in nature's beauty.  The themes of how nature and art can inspire, teach and connect us will be the doorways into intimate conversations about our relationships to others, to our work and to our selves.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.performx.net/events/opportunity-community-august-11th-meeting-at-wave-hill-nature-inspires-us-to-be-our-best/</link>
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		<title>When Fun Leads the Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fun is a powerful tool to effect change.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.performx.net/the-opportunity-show/when-fun-leads-the-way/</link>
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		<title>Grameen&#8217;s Social Business Lab This Sunday, June 27th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This coming Sunday, June 27th, Grameen Bank, in cooperation with Columbia's Business School will offer all day lab designed to provide an understanding of the social enterprise sector and how businesses operating in this space can impact issues on a global and national level.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.performx.net/events/grameens-social-business-lab/</link>
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		<title>My Students Have a New Outlook on Their Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;ve known Mark for a while now, and he never ceases to amaze me with his ability to inspire. My students are incredibly pumped up about their future possibilities after taking the Opportunity Lab.&#8221; Dolly Fevola, Instructor at Long Island Business Institute
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		<link>http://www.performx.net/labs-testimonials/my-students-have-a-new-outlook-on-their-future/</link>
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		<title>The Lab is Inspiring and Motivational</title>
		<description><![CDATA[” Mark and Andrew are dynamic leaders that really know how to communicate their ideas and inspire their audience.  I feel tremendously motivated after taking the Lab.” Adriann Musson, Special Education Teacher for the City of New York
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		<link>http://www.performx.net/labs-testimonials/the-lab-is-inspiring-and-motivational/</link>
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		<title>The Students at LIBI love the Opportunity Show!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[" I learned that my network was much broader than I realized and that once I could identify an opportunity, the ask was crucial."  Sandy Ortiz, LIBI Student]]></description>
		<link>http://www.performx.net/labs-testimonials/the-students-at-libi-love-the-opportunity-show/</link>
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		<title>The Opportunity Community Launches June 9th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 9 at 8 a.m., we will mark the very first gathering of The Opportunity Community.  We are looking forward to a morning filled with dynamic segments designed to build trust and deliver positive results.  You'll meet high-caliber colleagues and exchange ideas and contacts.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.performx.net/events/the-opportunity-community-launches-june-9th/</link>
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		<title>Traveling to Suchitoto and Finding Hope a Few Days Later</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you drive from San Salvador to Suchitoto, you pass gnarled trees twisted into startling shapes, burnt swatches of field, bunkers set into the hillside, and entire churches blown apart save for the arched entrance, leaving a path of sky where the congregants once sat in prayer. But you will also pass high groves of fruit trees and untouched fields of lush grass swept sideways by the wind. Once again, the stark contrast between beauty and the ravages left by a brutal civil war is in evidence everywhere. Back home in New York, I was waiting for a friend of mine at a local restaurant. Out of the blue, a woman sitting alone, nursing a tropical drink in a shade of blue I’ve never before seen in liquid form, struck up a conversation with me. She spoke of a renowned scientist who has built a renewable energy plant in Nicaragua and wants to do the same in… guess where? El Salvador.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.performx.net/the-opportunity-show/traveling-to-suchitoto-and-finding-hope-a-few-days-later/</link>
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		<title>Ending El Salvador&#8217;s Brand Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[El Salvador has a serious brand dilemma. The country boasts astounding natural beauty, among the most important Mayan archeological sites in the region, the best roads in Central America, a hydroelectric power grid, and a modern, cultured capital in San Salvador. However, tourists who would love what El Salvador has to offer stay away in droves.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.performx.net/the-opportunity-show/ending-el-salvadors-brand-problem/</link>
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