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		<title>Managing competition and turf in coalitions: Ask Dr. Coalition</title>
		<link>http://tomwolff.com/blog/2011/11/15/managing-competition-and-turf-in-coalitions-ask-dr-coalition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomwolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Dr. Coalition, In my local coalition all the organizational members talk about working for the good of the community. But in reality they are driven by their own self interest. They spend much of their coalition time protecting their territory. Turf wars seem to dominate. So we really don’t identify what the community needs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help I am trapped in a Coalition and can&#8217;t get out: Meet Dr.Coalition</title>
		<link>http://tomwolff.com/blog/2011/09/26/help-i-am-trapped-in-a-coalition-and-cant-get-out-meet-dr-coalition/</link>
		<comments>http://tomwolff.com/blog/2011/09/26/help-i-am-trapped-in-a-coalition-and-cant-get-out-meet-dr-coalition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomwolff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coalition Building]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So let’s ask Dr Coalition about what traps us in coalitions where there is a failure to act and what we can do to turn that around. Dear Dr. Coalition,  I am in a coalition that talks, talks, talks but never acts. This failure to act makes me feel trapped. The members of our coalition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Hospital Community Benefit Requirements: Who Will They Benefit?</title>
		<link>http://tomwolff.com/blog/2011/08/22/new-hospital-community-benefit-requirements-who-will-they-benefit/</link>
		<comments>http://tomwolff.com/blog/2011/08/22/new-hospital-community-benefit-requirements-who-will-they-benefit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomwolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently invited to present at a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) meeting in Atlanta regarding new requirements in the recently passed Affordable Health Care Act and also in new IRS regulations concerning Hospital Community Benefits. Yes, the IRS is regulating hospital community benefits! Sounds boring? Think again. This is a real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Transform our Health and Human Service System</title>
		<link>http://tomwolff.com/blog/2011/07/22/time-to-transform-our-health-and-human-service-system/</link>
		<comments>http://tomwolff.com/blog/2011/07/22/time-to-transform-our-health-and-human-service-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomwolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The time has come for us to rethink and transform the health and human services system in this country. These services cover a vast array of organizations providing a very broad range of services and consume large parts of federal, state and local budgets. The services are often critical for the consumers but the core [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Musings on Community Transformation Grants</title>
		<link>http://tomwolff.com/blog/2011/06/01/more-musings-on-community-transformation-grants/</link>
		<comments>http://tomwolff.com/blog/2011/06/01/more-musings-on-community-transformation-grants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomwolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post I told you about the upcoming Community Transformation Grants. (http://www.cdc.gov/communitytransformation/) Here are some of my thoughts as I’ve listened and read about what people are saying on this topic: This is the largest amount of $ we have seen for community prevention in a very long time– over $100 million next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community Transformation Grants Are Here at Last</title>
		<link>http://tomwolff.com/blog/2011/05/17/community-transformation-grants-are-here-at-last/</link>
		<comments>http://tomwolff.com/blog/2011/05/17/community-transformation-grants-are-here-at-last/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 16:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomwolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New healthy community funding is  now available – check this out. This announcement just came across my desk: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced the availability of over $100 million in funding for up to 75 Community Transformation Grants. Created by the Affordable Care Act, these grants are aimed at helping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Newsletter Available: Thriving and Surviving Devastating Funding Cuts</title>
		<link>http://tomwolff.com/blog/2011/05/03/new-newsletter-available-thriving-and-surviving-devastating-funding-cuts/</link>
		<comments>http://tomwolff.com/blog/2011/05/03/new-newsletter-available-thriving-and-surviving-devastating-funding-cuts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 20:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomwolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new issue of our Collaborative Solutions Newsletter has just hit the web. This issue is entitled: &#8220;Thriving and Surviving Devastating Funding Cuts: Collaboration and Community Building as the Answer &#8211; Part One of Survival Tips&#8221; The issue covers: The present crisis Time for a new approach: Collaboration, community building and systems change. Four specific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great New Resource on Health Equity</title>
		<link>http://tomwolff.com/blog/2011/04/25/great-new-resource-on-health-equity/</link>
		<comments>http://tomwolff.com/blog/2011/04/25/great-new-resource-on-health-equity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomwolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health equity is the hot new topic of interest &#8211; it is one of the four top goals of HHS&#8217; Healthy People 2020. However many groups approach this critical topic with limited vision. Not so the article entitled &#8220;Building a Regional Health Equity Movement: The grantmaking model of a local health department&#8221; (click for full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look at what&#8217;s in this month&#8217;s APA Monitor</title>
		<link>http://tomwolff.com/blog/2011/04/12/look-at-whats-in-this-months-apa-monitor/</link>
		<comments>http://tomwolff.com/blog/2011/04/12/look-at-whats-in-this-months-apa-monitor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomwolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was very pleased to see that the April 2011 issue of the American Psychological Association Monitor (their trade news magazine that goes to all ….. members) featured  an article entitled “Bringing Communities Together”  which looks at my coalition and community building work. Often when you talk to reporters you are not too sure what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Reviews Are Starting to Come In</title>
		<link>http://tomwolff.com/blog/2011/04/04/the-reviews-are-starting-to-come-in/</link>
		<comments>http://tomwolff.com/blog/2011/04/04/the-reviews-are-starting-to-come-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomwolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you have a book published like The Power of Collaborative Solutions it is so hard to know what people actually think of it . So it is fun when the reviews finally start to come in.  I am pleased to be able to share with you some of the new reviews of my book [...]]]></description>
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