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We tell stories — stories that serve our clients and some that simply scratch an itch for the world around us.

Pilgrim Place Leader Helps Peppermint Ridge Plan for the Future

May 17, 2012

By: Kathleen Kearns

Client: CHHSM

Services: Writing

Peppermint Ridge needed strategic help. The Corona, Calif., ministry provides homes for more than 100 people with developmental disabilities. After a period of rapid growth, it found itself facing changing needs, new government policies and funding cuts. What was a small CHHSM agency to do?

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Moved by Story

May 17, 2012

By: Daniel Pryfogle

Tags: Leadership

There are reasons why you and I do this work. Situations confront us where the old rules don't apply. Seeing the limits of conventional thinking, our energy rises as we imagine another way. A vision takes hold of us, and we take a chance on possibility. Whether we articulate it or not, we are in the midst of a story.

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Frugal and Fabulous — Confessions of a 20-Something Professional

May 17, 2012

By: Amanda Romano

After making a pact with myself I've learned that it is possible to be frugal and fabulous.

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Dog Lifts Spirits at UCH Community

May 14, 2012

By: Shannon Hartsoe

Client: United Church Homes

Services: Photography, Writing

Residents at Patriot Ridge community located in Fairborn, Ohio enjoy weekly therapeutic visits from Rocky the Labrador.

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Drum Group Brings Healing Harmony to Hoyleton Ministries

May 14, 2012

By: Cathy Gordon

Client: CHHSM

Services: Photography, Writing

A broken drumhead became a symbol of a changing life-and a fundraiser-for Hoyleton Ministries, a CHHSM ministry in Hoyleton, Ill.

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Hats Off to You, Mom!

May 11, 2012

By: Mallory Flynn

With Mother's Day around the corner, I'd like to take time out to say "thank you," to all the mothers out there.