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Published on: 3/20/2007
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I learned about CatComm through Theresa Williamson during a CONGESCO (Community Managers Council of Rio de Janeiro) meeting, a group I belonged to at the time.A while later I met her at the Santo Inácio School, where I participated in a group of Community Leaders.And finally I met her at the AEC - Association of Catholic Education, where I was taking a Project Elaboration course.Well, after so many encounters, I began thinking this was more than mere change.
Through these "occasional" encounters (I was building my capacity as a leader, she was conducting outreach for her work) our relationship became stronger.
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Repeating, the staff that works at the Casa, starting with Theresa, Roseli, Rosa Zambrano, Pedro, Marília, Edilson, Diana and Martha, are marvelous people who are always willing to help, orient, and explain.
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Despite not being its focus, CatComm, through Theresa, was the fiscal sponsor receiving funds from FASE/SAAP to pass on to CIACAC - Strengthening CIACAC Project (that allowed us to formalize the organization). Prepared a recommendation and presetnation letter on two occasions when I needed them. Today CIACAC is a legally constituted entity.Here I must say that without the existence of CatComm things would have been very difficult.Thank you, in particular, Theresa, Roseli, Edson and Rosa Zambrano.
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"I'd love to hear your impressions," Theresa Williamson said to me as we stepped off the bus, "about what you think of the communities here versus where you lived in Kenya."I had just spent the previous three months living and working in Kibera, a million-person shantytown in Nairobi.Nine months earlier a chance encounter with Theresa paved the way for this moment: here I was back in Brazil a part of Catalytic Communities' world-changing network.
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I had already become a part of this story because after meeting Theresa the previous December, I recommended Catalytic Communities to Mabel Miguel, a management professor from the University of North Carolina who was leading a class of MBAs to Brazil.
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Theresa met up with the class in Rio the following March and arranged a visit with Bezerra in Asa Branca.
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Chance, after all, favors the prepared mind, and though it may have been chance that prompted me to sit next to Theresa that day in December, it turns out that Catalytic Communities was already prepared to meet me.Lucky me.
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I happened to be in São Paulo, Brazil attending the Second World Movement for Democracy conference in November 2000, where I met Theresa Williamson, the Executive Director of Catalytic Communities, at one of the workshops at the assembly.Having believed in Kwoto, she suggested I post Kwoto to CatComm's (then incipient online) database because it is an experience worth sharing with groups elsewhere around the world.
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I decided to contact Theresa and find out more about CatComm.
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I can say that I myself experienced the power of this process, while asking Theresa for some information about translation.She was not only very supportive but also put me in contact with people that I later was able to work for, as a translator, and others that could give me more information about the profession.
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That was before I met Theresa Williamson at an academic conference.I had never imagined that it was possible to use your dissertation to create a non-profit organization.Listening to Theresa, I realized how narrow-minded I had been and realized for the first time what meaning at work was about.
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Theresa creates a lot of meaning around her.Her project creates meaning, as well as concrete results, for the poor communities she works with.She creates meaning by inspiring people around her.
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