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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (Again)

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As part of the large national award we received from the Department of Education, we are spending a lot more time in Washington. I had met Jackie Speier, the new Congresswoman from the San Francisco peninsula, at a library event shortly before she was elected to fill the vacancy created by the passing of Tom Lantos.

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The 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act

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This has been a really exciting week in Washington, DC, with the focus of today's 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. I'm in DC waiting to head over to the actual White House for an event with President Obama (and I have to assume, hundreds of the leading disability advocates) this afternoon.

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Measuring Conservation Effectiveness

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At a two-day event at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation on changing an entire movement. Nick Salafsky used the death of George Washington as an example of what happens when you don't use evidence in making decisions. The people attending all believe that we have to focus much more on conservation outcomes: are there more tigers?

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Bureaucrats with Clue

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Last night I was able to meet Vivek Kundra, the new Chief Information Officer of the federal government, at an event organized by Full Circle Fund and the Craigslist Foundation hosted by IBM at their offices on Market Street in San Francisco. For me, it's an amazing change.

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Notes from The Inauguration

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Ignoring recommendations by organizers that disabled people not venture into the dense crowds and frigid weather expected on inauguration day, my friend Steph summoned me and three other girlfriends to Washington D.C. to make sure that she could attend the event.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

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Even if all you do is spent two minutes in the lobby of the hotel where CGI is held, you have plenty of meetings and events to attend. Attended a networking events for social entrepreneurs, such as the one organized by the Schwab Foundation (the organizers of the World Economic Forum in Davos), where we brainstormed about different issues.

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