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Meghan Keaney Anderson
Mon, 12/29/2008

Happy New Year

It's a quiet day here around the offices of United Way of Massachusetts Bay & Merrimack Valley. Hard to believe that we launched this blog a little less than a year ago. Thought you might be interested in a "Wordle" of our recent blog posts, created at http://www.wordle.net/. A wordle is a visual display of our content. The word cloud gives greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. I liked this one because of the two largest words: "People" and "United". Have a happy New Year, and if you have ideas for how to make SpeakUnited better, please let me know in a comment below!

Wordle!  wordle.net

Meghan Keaney Anderson
Thu, 12/18/2008

Boston Homeless Census 2008

A few photos from the Boston Homeless Census. Where you there this year? What was your experience like? Leave a comment below and let us know.

Homeless Census 2008

Homeless Census 2008  read more »

Meghan Keaney Anderson
Tue, 12/09/2008

Live United Heroes: Tom Simons and Todd Baird

How one local ad agency brought our cause to life

In early October, you didn’t need to be a social scientist to know, beyond a doubt, that something had changed in the latest economic swandive. The calls and emails coming into United Way for help not only came with greater frequency, they had a different tenor. I remember clearly sitting across the table from Tom Simons and Todd Baird of PARTNERS+simons on October 6th and trying to find the words to explain the situation growing in front of us.  read more »

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