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By America Forward on Monday, November 10, 2008

As President-elect Obama focuses on key staff appointments and setting up his transition team, some publications across the country are weighing in on how various aspects of the campaign platform could translate into policies enacted by the new administration. Of particular importance for the social entrepreneur community are President-elect Obama’s interest in scaling national service and creating a Social Entrepreneurship Agency and a Social Investment Fund Network.

An article published today in the San Francisco Chronicle highlights reactions from Bay-area organizations, while an article published last week in The Nonprofit Times offers advice from individuals within the sector on how organizations can maximize possible outcomes from policies that could be brought forth by the new administration. The consensus? There’s a hopeful optimism about the prospect of a new era of opportunity for nonprofits, although it’s too soon to tell exactly what policies might be made.

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