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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Greg- I think you might've misunderstood the quote
below as being from Lulu ("what she thinks our main goal is" in your words)
..those words are from some info that was at a bottom of an email entitled "New
to WREN?" and below it , it described some of their sub-groups, one of which was
"ASCEnt", and that was<STRONG> <EM>their</EM></STRONG><EM> stated
goal,</EM> not GREN's<EM> -</EM> I have copied and pasted it here (in red here
and below so you can see the match-up).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>ASCEnt (Accelerating Social Cause Entrepreneurs) is an innovative pilot
program – located in Waterloo Region — offering social entrepreneurs and benefit
enterprises a comprehensive program to move companies from idea to sustainable
success.<BR clear=none>> <FONT color=#ff0000>Through a program of education
and business mentorship focussed on earning revenue and balanced impact, our
goal is to help social enterprises polish their go to market plans, build viable
product offerings and make critical connections to partners, customers and
industry influencers.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>This was at the bottom of an email from Lulu dated
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<P>Friday, March 28, 2014 2:39 PM, as part of a bunch of info about WREN
from WREN's website.</P></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Thanks, Lori
S.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=gcmichalenko@uwaterloo.ca
href="mailto:gcmichalenko@uwaterloo.ca">Gregory C. Michalenko</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=eleanor7000@gmail.com
href="mailto:eleanor7000@gmail.com">Eleanor Grant</A> ; <A
title=susankoswan@execulink.com href="mailto:susankoswan@execulink.com">Susan
Koswan</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=All@gren.ca
href="mailto:All@gren.ca">All</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, March 29, 2014 3:12
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [All] WREN etc (Re: In
Defence of Robert)</DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; DIRECTION: ltr; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">GREN
was one of the first organizations to endorse and support WREN. I found
the WREN meeting very disappointing- I walked out when one or other of the
stage managers talking at us started cheerily comparing environmental
organizing to building sand castles. I noticed that attendance was way down
from last year - about 35 compared to 70. I also was troubled by the way two
of the featured talkers were actually making pitches for their own consulting
firms. I'm also suspicious of the concepts of "social entrepreneurs",
"community based social marketing", "branding" "ownership" and "marketing" as
if our main goals were advertising, sales, and profit -- rather than
movement building, political engagement, and collaborative action to build
broad-based change in society and give nature a new breath on life.
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<DIV>Lulu mentions that she feels our main goal is:
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<P> <FONT color=#ff0000>"Through a program of education and business
mentorship focussed on earning revenue and balanced impact, our goal is to
help social enterprises polish their go to market plans, build viable
product offerings and make critical connections to partners, customers and
industry influencers."</FONT></P>
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<P>Sorry, I don't think that I have ever engaged in environmental work
to "earn revenue", develop "products", and deal with "customers". If
it were, why has the federal government's secret police investigated me, why
did the premier of Saskatchewan try to force the University of Saskatchewan
president to close down our student environmental club (it fell on its face
in the next election, thanks to our revelations), how come a private
detective hired by a nasty pulp mill company broke into my UW office in the
dead of night and ransacked it, and why did the Ontario government send a
snoop to try to finger me when news about a government cover up of
serious pollution somehow found its way into the hands of journalists?
It wasn't because I had neglected to take out a business licence.</P>
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<P>There are many models of organizing and being effective in saving the
environment. The good thing is to have so many choices to pick the
appropriate one to match particular needs. Sometimes you knock on
doors, other times you press "send" on your computer and you take your
message around the earth. We need those skilled at building community,
as well as spirited individuals who can craft something beautiful on their
own that becomes food and fuel to help others in their work: gone vitamin
rather than "gone viral". Peaceful toil and simplicity. Wealth
in ideas, but carbon poverty. No more war. Read Micah for humility,
not profit.</P>
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<P>- Greg<BR><BR></P></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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