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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Dear Friends and Colleagues<br><br>The purpose of this email is to invite our Open Space colleagues and OS Institute partners around the world to join us in a show of support for the Open Space Institute of Haiti who will be hosting their 10th Annual Open Space on Open Space June 23-26, 2011. Their theme will be: “What tools and practices do Haitians need to become agents of change in their communities?”<br><br>For a number of years, the OSI US has donated funds to Haiti to help pay for lodging and meals. In 2010, we contributed a more sizeable sum recognizing the urgent need for OS work in Haiti following the catastrophic hurricane.<br><br>This year, we again received a request for financial assistance in the amount of $3250. A number of local Haiti sponsors are also contributing. While we have limited funds, we feel strongly that this work deserves our help - thus the idea of this Matching Fund Campaign.<br><br>We will match $dollar for $dollar to a maximum of $1625 to help them achieve their goal of raising $3250 total dollars. If we raise excess funds from this campaign, it would be the intent of the OSI US Institute to make these funds available to serve other underserved communities through vehicles such as the Access Queen which helps lower-income individuals attend World Open Space on Open Space events or through other initiatives that OSI US is involved in that support access, inclusion and connection to the greater OS community.<br><br>We invite you to visit our OSI US website to learn more. We have also established a special link that will make it easy for you to donate.<br><br><a href="http://osius.org/support-haiti-open-space-2011" target="_blank">http://osius.org/support-haiti-open-space-2011</a><br><br>As we honor their ten years of facilitating, mentoring, teaching and growing Open Space across Haiti, we are appealing to you - our worldwide OS community of friends and colleagues - to join us with a “pay it forward” matching initiative. For every dollar you contribute - we will match it as we join together to help enable 25 Haitian participants to attend Haiti's OSonOS this year. This matching donation campaign will end on May 15, 2011.<br><br> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Appreciatively, the OSI US Institute Board Members,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.25in'><a href="http://www.nufocusgroup.com/strategic/index.php?lang=en&page=partners" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Suzanne Daigle</span></a> <a href="http://openspaceworld.ning.com/profile/KarenJDavis" target="_blank" title="Karen Davis"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Karen Davis</span></a> <a href="http://www.footprintsinthewind.com/" target="_blank" title="Doug Germann"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Douglas D. Germann Sr.</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.25in'><a href="http://openingspace.net/" target="_blank" title="Lisa Heft"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Lisa Heft</span></a> <a href="http://peggyholman.com/PH-WordPress/about" target="_blank" title="Peggy Holman"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Peggy Holman</span></a> <a href="http://www.leadershiptransformationgroup.com/aboutLTG/people.php" target="_blank" title="Ed Laboy"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Edward Laboy</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.25in'><a href="http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=233" target="_blank" title="Phelim McDermott"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Phelim McDermott</span></a> <u>Barry Owen</u> <a href="http://www.christinewhitneysanchez.com/international_experience" target="_blank" title="Christine Whitney Sanchez"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Christine Whitney Sanchez</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.25in'><a href="http://shinsato.com/blog/about/" target="_blank" title="Harold Shinsato"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Harold Shinsato</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.25in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>