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Elie and I had lunch with three people representing the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) yesterday. At this point we aren’t used to having meetings without a wiki handy for note-taking – and dealing with corn chowder at the same time intensified the challenge – but here are the highlights of what I remember: So, a lot of what comes out of this depends on what they email us for followup. The main thing I have to say at this point is that it’s been a long, hard slog through the fortress of fundraising (what CAS calls “development”) to meaningful conversations about why CAS chooses the strategies it does. I’ve been hounding CAS for information longer than anyone else – they were my first ever real charitable donation back in July 2005 – and this is the third personal visit I’ve had with them. The first was a tour of one of their community centers; it was Halloween, and I was invited to participate in the “haunted house” for the little kids (I declined; I didn’t trust myself to draw the line b

This post is more than 19 years old Elie and I had lunch with three people representing the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) yesterday. At this point we aren’t used to having meetings without a wiki handy for note-taking – and dealing with corn chowder at the same time intensified the challenge – but here are the highlights of what I remember: The meeting started with a more or less total repudiation of the main self-evaluation study we’ve been sent so far, a review of test scores at CAS community schools . I had sent an email on Wednesday summarizing my problems with

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