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	<description>College scholarships for immigrant students in the Capital region</description>
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		<title>2010 Scholarship Applications Available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2010 scholarship applications are now available! Applications are due March 19. For more information, go to http://apps.esperanzafund.org.
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		<link>http://www.esperanzafund.org/2010/02/02/2010-application-form-available/</link>
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		<title>Esperanza 2009 Inaugural Year Highlights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year from the Esperanza Education Fund! Thanks to your generous support, we have had an amazing first year. Below is a letter reviewing what we accomplished in 2009 and previewing what we aim to achieve in 2010. 
 2009 Year in Review
As you read the letter, we hope you will consider making a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.esperanzafund.org/2009/12/29/esperanza-2009-inaugural-year-highlights/</link>
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		<title>At the Carnegie with Elizabeth Joy Roe</title>
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Elizabeth Joy Roe wowed us.  Starting with a hypnotic Bach / Siloti Prelude in B minor, and ending with Ravel’s explosive La Valse—and touching on Gershwin, Rachmaninoff and others in between—Elizabeth’s program was magnificent.   
 
The ballroom of the Carnegie Institution was packed with an audience of 125 people.  We were joined by numerous attorneys, businesspeople, and other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.esperanzafund.org/2009/12/23/at-the-carnegie-with-elizabeth-joy-roe/</link>
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		<title>Benefit concert featuring Elizabeth Joy Roe</title>
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Hailed as “brilliant” (New York Times), “electrifying” (Dallas Morning News), and “an artist to be taken seriously” (Chicago Tribune), Korean-American pianist Elizabeth Joy Roe has captured universal acclaim from critics and audiences alike for her appearances as recitalist, orchestral soloist, and chamber musician. A graduate of the Juilliard School and winner of the William Petschek [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.esperanzafund.org/2009/11/15/private-concert-with-elizabeth-joy-roe/</link>
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		<title>The Phalanx, 10 Kilometers Later</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, 14 brave souls came out to Haines Point to run a 10K for the Esperanza Education Fund.  Nine of us formed the &#8220;phalanx,&#8221; spelling out &#8220;E-S-P-E-R-A-N-Z-A&#8221; at the start and finish lines. The crowd&#8211;some 2,000 runners and friends&#8211;loved it; so did the Washington Running Report.  Thanks to everyone who came out and everyone else [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.esperanzafund.org/2009/11/15/veterans-day-10-k-run/</link>
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		<title>Veterans Day 10K</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to everyone who came out to our kickoff Happy Hour and Pisco Tasting at Las Canteras last week. We were able to raise a nice bit of funds for scholarships, and everyone seemed to have a good time (and drank like it!).
We will be running our first race, the Veteran&#8217;s Day 10K in Washington, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.esperanzafund.org/2009/10/04/veterans-day-10k/</link>
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		<title>Pisco Tasting at Las Canteras</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new academic year is upon us and with it, a new calendar of activities for the Esperanza Fund. In the months ahead, we&#8217;ll be fielding a 10K running team and hosting a private recital with a brilliant young concert pianist of BBC, NPR and MTV fame, Elizabeth Joy Roe. We&#8217;re pretty excited.
To kick all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.esperanzafund.org/2009/09/20/upcoming-happy-hour-pisco-tasting-at-las-canteras/</link>
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		<title>Esperanza in the News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pick up your free local copy of Washington Hispanic this week for an excellent profile of the Esperanza Fund!   The writer, Mitzi Macias, provided an overview of the scholarship, our fun picnic photo, and a short focus piece on one of our six inaugural Esperanza Fellows (the latter of which is unfortunately not on our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.esperanzafund.org/2009/09/13/esperanza-in-the-news/</link>
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		<title>First Annual Community Picnic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday, Esperanza members, supporters and our brand new inaugural class of Esperanza Scholars gathered to barbecue, frisbee, and play soccer at Fort Hunt Park in Alexandria.  Special thanks to Klass and LatinBag.com for generously supporting the event.


























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		<link>http://www.esperanzafund.org/2009/08/09/first-annual-community-picnic/</link>
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		<title>$50,000 and Six Esperanza Scholars Later&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After reviewing 250 applications and interviewing 30 finalists, the Esperanza Education Fund&#8217;s Scholarship Committee has selected our inaugural class of six Esperanza Scholars!  Our Esperanza Scholars live in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.  They are truly the cream of the crop.  Many of them have also overcome great adversity to be where they are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.esperanzafund.org/2009/06/01/meet-our-esperanza-scholars/</link>
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