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Amel brings a wealth of experience working across private and non-profit sectors. She was previously the Program Manager of a non-profit in New Jersey...
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Amel Khalil

Program Manager

Cam believes in the transformative power of genuine relationships coupled with dynamic solutions to create pathways for a more equitable future. With a background and...
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Cam Welch

Client Services Coordinator

Cindy believes the power of relationships and the intentionality of capital will create a more equitable world. She has deep experience as a Colorado thought leader...
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Cindy Willard

Senior Director Capital Activation

Hannah believes in using gifts, talents and passions to strengthen organizations and increase impact in supporting local communities. She has extensive experience in...
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Hannah DeAlto

Controller

Hawwa Muhammad is a social impact consultant dedicated to supporting mission-driven organizations. Using her decade-long experience in the nonprofit sector, she created a consultancy that helps transition ideas into actions for social initiatives.
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Hawwa Muhammad

Program Consultant

James is driven by his commitment to equity and inclusion in all he does. He believes relationships are how we better understand each other and find...
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James McClair

Director of Operations

Jourdan believes in reimaging how capital is deployed to reach those most structurally excluded and dismantling barriers that prevent individuals and communities...
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Jourdan McGinn

Senior Director Economic Mobility

Kimberly is inspired and motivated by being apart of nonprofits who are making real change in the world. Having worked in the finance and operations space for over 15 years...
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Kimberly Flynn

Program Operations & Grants Manager

MacKenzie’s work in the social impact field is driven by her belief in the critical importance of respecting humanity and treating people with dignity...
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MacKenzie Fair

Senior Program Consultant

Marlen is invested in how disproportionately impacted households, including non-English speaking, immigrant, and informal economy participating households...
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Marlen Guerrero

Program Consultant

Rich believes in the interconnectedness of everyone’s well-being and is dedicated to creating more equitable paths to opportunity. He is focused on dismantling the broken systems...
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Rich Hoops

Executive Director

Anne believes that a steadfast rising tide will lift all boats. She has previously worked as a Lead Case Manager helping to resettle unaccompanied minors...
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Stephanie Anne Moore

Program Consultant

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Ed Briscoe founded Impact Charitable in 2014 and stepped down from day to day leadership in 2020. Ed is the Founder and Managing Director of Weave Social Finance...
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Ed Briscoe

Founder and Board President

Haroun Cowans is a prominent social, financial, and philanthropic leader with over two decades of experience leading development and investment in the Five Points District of Denver, Colorado. Haroun is responsible for Goshen Development’s operations, client relations, partnerships, business development, and strategic leadership.
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Haroun Cowans

Board Member

Mark spent much of his career delivering products and businesses that generated more than $2.0 billion in revenue in the telecommunications...
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Mark Newhouse

Board Member

Ryan has acted as outside general counsel for hundreds of startups in industries ranging from software and technology to ecommerce and healthcare...
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Ryan Howell

Board Member

Sondra has spent thirty years investing in a better world. She was most recently the CFO of Capital Sisters International for over a decade, during which time she launched...
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Sondra Greene

Board Member

Susan Graf is dedicated to helping socially and environmentally conscious organizations by connecting them to the resources and capital they need to fulfill their missions.
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Susan Graf

Board Member

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Amel Khalil

Program Manager

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Amel brings a wealth of experience working across private and non-profit sectors. She was previously the Program Manager of a non-profit in New Jersey, where she coordinated specialized empowerment programming for the Muslim and Middle Eastern community of New Jersey. In addition to the onboarding and management of all programming for schools, mosques, and community centers, she did grant writing, grant reporting, program management, and administered direct cash, utility bill payments, gift cards, and food boxes to communities across NJ.

She currently consults across a number of different organizations and brings a depth of experience in communications, project management, direct service, and grants management.

Cam Welch

Client Services Coordinator

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Cam believes in the transformative power of genuine relationships coupled with dynamic solutions to create pathways for a more equitable future. With a background and experience across the corporate and nonprofit sectors, he brings a unique perspective to his role as a Client Services Coordinator at Impact Charitable.

His passion for community-driven impact grew during his tenure at The Denver Foundation. As a Reisher Scholarship Associate he championed education and empowerment. His stewardship was pivotal in fostering an active alumni community, orchestrating forums on racial equity, and expediting grants in times of crisis, exemplifying his unwavering dedication to catalyzing change.

Cam holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, with a specialization in Marketing and a Minor in Leadership, from the University of Denver. This academic foundation, complemented by his professional journey, positions him as a dynamic force in the quest for equitable solutions. When not actively shaping a brighter tomorrow, Cam immerses himself in the great Colorado outdoors, engages in portrait photography, and indulges his culinary flair. Nestled in Denver, Colorado, Cam remains intrinsically tethered to his community, eagerly contributing to a lasting, positive change.

Cindy Willard

Director Capital Activation

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Cindy believes the power of relationships and the intentionality of capital will create a more equitable world. She has deep experience as a Colorado thought leader in philanthropic strategy, grantmaking and program development.

She began her career in journalism and community relations and has since built extensive experience as a catalyst for community capital. In her various positions at community, private and corporate foundations, Cindy acted as a lead investor in the first statewide pay-for-success project in Colorado to expand access to family therapy designed to reduce recidivism. She has facilitated a pipeline for program-related investments and grants that support education and capital for entrepreneurs and employment. And, she led a statewide research project that informed initiatives to support dropout prevention for girls and economic security for low-income, single mothers.

In her work, Cindy draws from her own community involvement, serving on numerous boards and advisory councils including as a Board member for Vital Healthcare Capital, a national CDFI, and a fellow through the Just Economy Institute.

After graduating from the University of Kansas with a BS in journalism with distinction, she went on to earn a Master’s degree in Nonprofit Management from Regis University, where she later served as affiliate faculty in the Global Nonprofit Leadership department. She lives in Colorado with her husband and dog where she is an aspiring ceramicist, outdoor enthusiast, and avid reader.

Hannah DeAlto

Controller

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Hannah believes in using gifts, talents and passions to strengthen organizations and increase impact in supporting local communities. She has extensive experience in overseeing daily accounting functions and internal controls, budget and audit coordination, financial reporting, and grant compliance, working in nonprofit financial leadership roles for the past 7 years.

Hannah served as the Controller at an international nonprofit foundation focused on implementing sustainable solutions in fragile and conflict-affected areas where she focused on establishing streamlined systems for financial management as a foundation for institutional growth. Prior to that, Hannah acted as the Director of Finance at a dynamic community food bank, where she developed an innovative solution to channel grant funds to grass-roots organizations.

Hannah has a BS and Masters in Accounting from the University of Arizona and is a CPA in Colorado and Arizona. She enjoys volunteering with her local church and acting as a member of the Colorado Society of CPAs. Outside of work, Hannah delights in spending time with her husband and two small children, exploring Colorado, reading, and investing in building community.

Hawwa Muhammad

Program Consultant

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Hawwa Muhammad is a social impact consultant dedicated to supporting mission-driven organizations. Using her decade-long experience in the nonprofit sector, she created a consultancy that helps transition ideas into actions for social initiatives. Hawwa designs operational infrastructure for under-resourced communities and optimizes processes to enhance social service delivery.

Hawwa received her MPA from the Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration and a Political Science BA from Rutgers University. She is based in Newark, NJ.

James McClair

Director of Operations

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James is driven by his commitment to equity and inclusion in all he does. He believes relationships are how we better understand each other and find the intersections between our interests, backgrounds and opportunities.

He worked for 21 years with Oppenheimer Funds in a wide variety of roles as a business analyst, customer service lead, retirement plan senior specialist, and fraud analyst. In each role James used his ability to ask difficult questions and desire to see more than one perspective to drive success in sometimes unconventional ways. He was also an active member of two business resource groups helping to bring equity and education to the Black and Latino communities. Most recently, James entered the impact investing field with a personal focus on diversity and inclusion within the philanthropic and investment sectors.

James has spent the last 14 years helping members of his community experience other cultures and perspectives both locally and internationally in India, Honduras, Uganda, Rwanda, and Peru. As co-leader and creator of the International Advocacy Team at Highlands Church Denver, he has developed programming and led teams to build relationships and support projects identified by communities in these regions.

James has a BA in Biology from Denison University, where he played basketball, ran track, and sang in an acapella group. Music and sports have been a big part of James’ life and continue with his wife Rachael and two boys. Today the entire family continues to perform and play around the Denver area and beach volleyball courts wherever possible.

Jourdan McGinn

Director of Economic Mobility & Direct Cash Transfers

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Jourdan believes in reimaging how capital is deployed to reach those most structurally excluded and dismantling barriers that prevent individuals and communities from realizing their full potential.

She is the former Deputy Executive Director for Partners In Health Sierra Leone, helping to rebuild the health system after the devastating West Africa Ebola outbreak.

Prior to that, Jourdan was the Director of Program Design for One Acre Fund (OAF) Kenya, a social enterprise working with small-holder farmers across rural Africa, where she built the first-ever Program Design team. The Program Design team used novel human-centered design methodologies coupled with evidence generated from pilot and R&D initiatives to optimize program design and build high-impact products.

She also supported and incubated emerging community-based human rights organizations and grassroots leaders from across Uganda following the occupation of the Lord's Resistance Army.

Throughout this work, Jourdan has used direct cash as a tool in addressing poverty and systemic injustice, running a half dozen direct cash programs across the globe. She has an MSc in Public Health & Economics from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a BA from Seattle University in Communications & African Studies. She lives in Denver with her partner, where she spends as much time outdoors as possible and loves boxing, hiking, and adventuring.

Kimberly Flynn

Program Operations & Grants Specialist

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Kimberly is inspired and motivated by being apart of nonprofits who are making real change in the world. Having worked in the finance and operations space for over 15 years Kimberly enjoys using her expertise to help nonprofits find structure and thrive in their mission.

Kimberly has spent the last five years helping local art organizations with setting up their nonprofit finance and operations structure. She also volunteers her time to mentor artists with the business side of selling their artwork. Kimberly holds a Business degree with a focus in Finance and is board treasurer for a local art nonprofit.

She lives in Savannah, Georgia, but loves to travel to Denver to see such a beautiful community that Impact Charitable gets to call its home.

MacKenzie Fair

Senior Program Consultant

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MacKenzie’s work in the social impact field is driven by her belief in the critical importance of respecting humanity and treating people with dignity. MacKenzie began her career as a Program Coordinator for the Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning, managing teams of community organizers within the University of Denver and Denver Public School communities. She facilitated community organizing institutes and coached students on systems change.

MacKenzie later entered the nonprofit world managing and coordinating recovery support services across Colorado, and later, the United States. As the National Program Director for Young People in Recovery, she led teams of chapter leaders and program implementers to scale and evolve recovery support services and advocacy initiatives to challenge the way in which Substance Use Disorder is perceived, treated, and cared for. At Village Health Partnership, MacKenzie worked with on-the-ground partners in Ethiopia to improve the state of maternal health and to decrease preventable morbidities that isolated and destroyed the lives of women across the country.

MacKenzie received her BA from the University of Colorado in International Affairs and Political Science. She later returned to school to get her MA in International Development with a focus on Global Health from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She lives in Colorado with her husband, kiddo, and two dogs adventuring around as much as she can.

Marlen Guerrero

Program Consultant

Marlen is invested in how disproportionately impacted households, including non-English speaking, immigrant, and informal economy participating households, access assistance programs during times of crisis. She works to center the service seeker experience when designing program components to maintain dignity and foster trust.

Marlen began her career in disaster recovery, helping homeowners navigate philanthropic funds and federal funds to repair their homes after natural disasters. Later, as a program manager, she focused on designing and implementing direct financial and rental assistance programs for COVID-impacted households.

Marlen received her BA from Colby College in Biology and Sociology. She is finishing her Master’s in Social Work with a focus on Political and Macro Social Work at the University of Houston. She currently resides in her hometown of Houston, Texas.

Rich Hoops

Executive Director

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Rich believes in the interconnectedness of everyone’s well-being and is dedicated to creating more equitable paths to opportunity. He is focused on dismantling the broken systems of capital that exist and building a new system that creates access to resources that support a better life for all of us.

He has extensive private sector experience in both corporate and entrepreneurial settings. In his corporate career, he held senior management and executive positions in sales, marketing and business development. He founded a for-profit company, a social enterprise, and co-founded two nonprofit organizations. More recently, Rich committed himself to leading in the social sector gaining significant experience in nonprofit management, philanthropy, and impact investing over the past 15 years.

Locally, Rich serves as board chair of Thrive, an organization supporting individuals to move towards self-sufficiency through work and is a member of Social Venture Partners-Denver. Nationally, he serves on the advisory board for the Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. In addition to his work in the US, Rich is actively engaged in the social enterprise sector in East Africa as both investor and advisor to early-stage social enterprises and as board chair for Blood:Water Mission, a nonprofit that partners with community-based organizations in the fight against the HIV/AIDs and water crises.

Rich has a BA from the University of Missouri-Colombia and an MBA in Organizational Strategy and Entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago. When not working, Rich enjoys camping, skiing, biking, fly-fishing, and spending time with his four daughters.

Stephanie Anne Moore

Program Consultant

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Anne believes that a steadfast rising tide will lift all boats. She has previously worked as a Lead Case Manager helping to resettle unaccompanied minors from the Northern Triangle (Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras). Before that, Anne lived in Guatemala City, working and studying Central American issues and learning Arabic.

Throughout her work, Anne has focused on immigration issues, and she is a firm believer in supporting human rights by addressing poverty and systemic injustice in education to improve women’s rights.

She has an MA in International Relations from the University Rafael Landivar and a BA in Business Administration. She moved to the United States in 2020 due to the pandemic. She has traveled to 34 countries worldwide and loves a wellness lifestyle with low impact on Earth.

Ed Briscoe

Founder and Board President

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Ed Briscoe founded Impact Charitable in 2014 and stepped down from day to day leadership in 2020. Ed is the Founder and Managing Director of Weave Social Finance, a provider of consulting and investment banking services to social enterprises and businesses based in low-income communities. Through his career, Ed has directed, structured, and facilitated over $480 million in investments benefiting low income communities. His newest venture is the Colorado Housing Accelerator Fund.

Ed’s experience in the organizational leadership and management of charitable organizations includes serving on the Board of Directors and chair of the credit committee for Colorado Enterprise Fund and the first investor and board member for Knotty Tie Co.

Ed has a B.S. in business administration from Samford University and an MBA from Vanderbilt University with concentrations in finance, strategy, and human and organizational performance.

Haroun Cowans

Board Member

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Haroun Cowans is a prominent social, financial, and philanthropic leader with over two decades of experience leading development and investment in the Five Points District of Denver, Colorado. Haroun is responsible for Goshen Development’s operations, client relations, partnerships, business development, and strategic leadership. Prior to founding Goshen, Haroun oversaw a $350M privately owned real estate portfolio, including development, asset management, property management, and brokerage. He has held many leadership positions in real estate and finance but considers his greatest passion his work as an associate pastor at Church in the City – Beth Abraham. Outside of ministry, Haroun is the Founder and Managing Principal of Goshen Development.

Haroun has built strong relationships to the Five Points and greater Denver community through his extensive work and board appointments. Throughout his career, Haroun has held many different positions in real-estate and finance including managing retail financial branches, raising capital for startups, financial advising, financial services at Merrill Lynch, Chief Real Estate Officer and commercial real estate broker. Haroun has been appointed by the Mayor to serve on the Denver Board of Human Services and the Advisory Committee for Housing People Experiencing Homelessness. He is a board member of the following organizations: Colorado Enterprise Fund, Five Points Business Improvement District, Historic Denver, Denver Health Foundation, Denver African American Philanthropists (co-chair), and Black Resilience in Colorado. He has previously served on the boards of Denver East YMCA, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance and Youth Biz (chair). Notably, Haroun has been featured in the Denver Post, Denver Channel 7 News, Denver Channel 9 News, 303 Magazine, Westword, Business Den and has been cover stories for Denver Business Journal, Denverite and Vice Magazine.

Mark Newhouse

Board Member

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Mark spent much of his career delivering products and businesses that generated more than $2.0 billion in revenue in the telecommunications, consumer electronics, and cleantech markets. Mark is a true pioneer in the field of Optical Communications. Any signal moving through the Internet may travel over some of the 30 million kilometers of LEAF® fiber, which he and Yanming Liu invented. Multi-wavelength optical amplifiers developed by the technology organizations he grew and ran may amplify that Internet signal. Optical switches pioneered and deployed by the Corning division that he founded and led may then switch that Internet signal. Mark completed his time at Corning in Shanghai, where he was a Senior Vice President of Corning Incorporated.

Over the last several years in Colorado, Mark has been investing in and advising a variety of startup companies. In 2017 he was named a General Partner of the Innosphere Fund. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of SWIR Visions Systems, Epic River, and Boulder AI. Since coming to Colorado, Mark has invested much of his time in exploring new models of philanthropy.

At the onset of the COVID pandemic, Mark co-founded the Left Behind Workers Fund (LBWF), which is providing assistance to recently unemployed workers without documentation. LBWF has raised, from both private and public sources, and has distributed, $25 million to help these workers at their time of greatest need. This work led to the founding of Aidkit, which is now providing a technology platform to support seven different financial assistance programs, including the Denver Basic Income Project.

Mark was an investor in NPX’s first private-pay-for-success transaction. As an Advisor to NPX, he helped bring this new philanthropy model to Colorado in the form of NPX’s Colorado Donor Impact Fund.

Mark is the founder of the Social Venture Partners Impact Investing Group. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Denver Social Venture Partners, Impact Charitable, and The Denver Foundation.

Ryan Howell

Board Member

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Ryan has acted as outside general counsel for hundreds of startups in industries ranging from software and technology to ecommerce and healthcare. He advises startup clients on all matters from startup to exit, including formation, capital raising (including debt and equity financings), commercial transactions, and M&A.

Prior to Rubicon, Ryan worked on the founding teams of several venture backed startups and as in-house counsel at a private equity firm. From founding to exit, Ryan provides clients with counsel that is understandable, efficient, and solutions-focused.

Ryan serves on the board of Impact Charitable, and as a volunteer mentor for the Rocky Mountain MicroFinance Institute. Ryan currently teaches the “Venture Deals” course at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law.

Ryan received a BA in International Politics from Brigham Young University, and both a JD and MBA from the University of Denver. Ryan also studied at Peking University.

Ryan loves running, reading, and all things technology. He is also the proud father of five daughters.

Sondra Greene

Board Member

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Sondra has spent thirty years investing in a better world. She was most recently the CFO of Capital Sisters International for over a decade, during which time she launched and managed the Sister Bonds® Investment Fund – retail investors buy zero interest bonds to fund microloans for women in developing countries, specifically Guatemala, the Philippines and Afghanistan.

Prior to that she spent fifteen years raising private capital for public infrastructure projects in the UK, Europe and around the world.

At Barclays Capital in London, she advised governments and companies developing projects in the transportation and social infrastructure sectors. She subsequently helped launch and grow the London office of Macquarie Bank’s infrastructure funds business.

Sondra is on the Board of the National Diaper Bank Network which aims to ensure that families in the United States have access to their basic needs, and she is an angel investor with Next Wave Impact, women investing in entrepreneurs creating positive social impact.

She has an Economics Degree from Brandeis and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Susan Graf

Board Member

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Susan Graf is dedicated to helping socially and environmentally conscious organizations by connecting them to the resources and capital they need to fulfill their missions. Currently VP for Regional Development for Alpine Bank, Susan is a seasoned executive and board leader who leverages her extensive experience in corporate governance, business development, operations and human resource management to nurture the growth of impactful organizations. In 2016, Susan was tapped by San Francisco-based New Resource Bank to lead their expansion into Colorado and open their first loan production office in Boulder, thus adding ‘banker’ to her career quiver. New Resource, a national, B Corp bank serving sustainable businesses and nonprofits, hired Susan as their SVP Regional Development Manager to capitalize on her leadership experience in these target markets.

Graf became the first female President and CEO of the Boulder Chamber in 2004. She led the Boulder Chamber of Commerce for eight years; which included oversight of the Boulder Economic Council, Small Business Development Center and the Convention and Visitors Bureau. Susan collaborated with the City of Boulder to develop a joint Economic Vitality Program that included new city Business Liaison staff, a microloan fund, the city’s Flexible Rebate incentives package, and a joint proactive business outreach program. She has served in leadership roles on the boards of the Colorado Enterprise Fund, Boulder Community Health, Naturally Boulder, Workforce Boulder County and currently serves on the Finance Committee of the Emergency Family Assistance Association. Graf holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Colorado, is a Senior Professional in Human Resources from the Society of Human Resource Management and is a Wharton Certified Employee Benefit Specialist.

Graf is a long-time Boulder resident and fully embraces the Colorado lifestyle, as she can frequently be found hiking or road biking with her husband or girlfriends.

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