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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Good morning everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I’m back from vacation and will respond to waiting emails within the next few days. Thanks for your patience!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>You’ll have noticed the ATEH Executive Director’s job posting when our Chair Dan Sabourin sent it out August 6<sup>th</sup>. This change is happening now because my husband and I are moving back to Toronto by next summer to make it easier for us to help with family responsibilities there; my “job” till then will be getting our Ottawa home reno’d and ready for sale then setting up a new one. The Alliance Board plans to have someone new in place sometime this September. You’ll see emails from me many times before that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>As you might imagine this will be quite a change for me having worked as the Alliance’s sole staff since 2004, acting first as the coordinator then becoming the first Executive Director in October of 2011 after incorporation as a non-profit. Back in 2004 the Alliance started to release its annual <i>Report Cards on Ending Homelessness in Ottawa </i>and to offer its first annual Homelessness Research Forum. Since then both have become the Alliance’s signature public events in Ottawa and have definitely contributed to the effectiveness of all of our strategic advocacy efforts. Over time these have given the Alliance and ending homelessness considerable credibility in the community and with stakeholders including the media and the three orders of government. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It truly has been a great honour and a pleasure to work with everyone in the Alliance. Many of you have been supporters since it began in 1995 and have made wonderful contributions to make the Alliance the strong organization that it is in the efforts to end homelessness. Part of me is sad to be leaving but at the same time I feel a great confidence that working collaboratively together in the Alliance has and will continue to make an important difference in efforts to end homelessness. I’ll definitely be taking what we’ve all learned together into whatever my next position in Toronto might be.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Lynne<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>LYNNE BROWNE<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Executive Director<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>lynnebrowne@endhomelessnessottawa.ca<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>171 George Street, </span></i><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Ottawa ON K1N 5W5<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>613-241-1573, ext. 314<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Website: <span style='color:red'><a href="http://www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca/index.cfm"><span style='color:red'>End Homelessness Ottawa</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Like us on <span style='letter-spacing:.6pt'><a href="https://www.facebook.com/endhomelessnessottawa?fref=ts"><span style='color:blue'>Facebook</span></a></span></span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>