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		<title>U.S. Green Building Council Honors Brad Pitt&#8217;s Make It Right as the &#8216;Largest and Greenest Single Family Community in the World&#8217;</title>
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U.S. Green Building Council President, CEO &#38; Founding Chair Rick Fedrizzi today declared that the neighborhood being built by Make It Right New Orleans, the post-Katrina housing initiative launched by actor Brad Pitt, is the “largest and greenest community of single-family homes in the world” at the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York.
Make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.griffinschake.com/news/?p=357</link>
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		<title>Chris Albrecht Set to Develop Hourlong Drama for Starz</title>
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Griffin&#124;Schake client, Chris Albrecht, will be developing an hourlong drama for Starz set in the New York fashion world. The show will follow a high-fashion photographer as she makes her way.
Albrecht told Daily Variety: &#8220;I pitched them my idea for the character. They really keyed in on the things I thought were most interesting about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.griffinschake.com/news/?p=343</link>
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		<title>First Lady Michelle Obama Joins California First Lady Maria Shriver for Playground Service Project in San Francisco</title>
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Yesterday, First Lady Michelle Obama joined California First Lady Maria Shriver and 350 volunteers for a playground building service project at Bret Harte Elementary School in San Francisco to encourage Americans to to serve their communities. Together, along with 350 volunteers, they constructed the first fully volunteer-built &#8220;intergenerational playground&#8221; in the nation.
Griffin&#124;Schake coordinated logistics with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.griffinschake.com/news/?p=321</link>
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		<title>Chad Griffin and Kristina Schake Named to Board of Directors of American Foundation for Equal Rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chad Griffin and Kristina Schake were each named today to the Board of Directors of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, an Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and advancing equal rights for every American.
Actor/director Rob Reiner, children&#8217;s advocate Michelle Singer Reiner, producer Bruce Cohen and writer and director Dustin Lance Black were also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.griffinschake.com/news/?p=309</link>
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		<title>Prop 8 Challenged in Federal Court; Legal Rivals Ted Olson and David Boies Team Up to Argue Case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lawsuit first filed in federal district court last Friday, May 22, states that Proposition 8 &#8212; which eliminated the right of same sex couples to marry in California &#8212; creates a class of “second-class citizens” and thereby violates the U.S. Constitution. The suit also calls for an injunction against Proposition 8 until the case [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.griffinschake.com/news/?p=286</link>
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		<title>Maria Shriver Sheds Light on Alzheimer&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maria Shriver is the executive producer of HBO&#8217;s The Alzheimer&#8217;s Project, a multi-platform 4-part series that takes a close look at groundbreaking discoveries made by the country&#8217;s leading scientists, as well as the effects of this debilitating and fatal disease both on those with Alzheimer&#8217;s and on their families.
The first of the four documentaries in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.griffinschake.com/news/?p=275</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Outrage&#8221; Premiers at Tribeca Film Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The documentary &#8220;Outrage,&#8221; which is being directed by Academy Award-nominated Kirby Dick and executive produced by our very own Chad Griffin, premiered tonight at the Tribeca Film Festival.
&#8220;Outrage&#8221; takes on the hypocrisy of closeted politicians who actively campaign against the LGBT community they covertly belong to. Boldly revealing the hidden lives of some of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.griffinschake.com/news/?p=261</link>
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		<title>Maria Shriver Launches &#8220;A Woman&#8217;s Nation&#8221;</title>
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Today, Maria Shriver launched a multifaceted project in partnership with the Center for American Progress and the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy. 
TIME magazine will also be involved in research and reporting, as well as co-presenting discussions and roundtables around the country.
The project, A Woman’s Nation, will take a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.griffinschake.com/news/?p=242</link>
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		<title>Chad Griffin Executive Produces &#8220;Outrage&#8221; Documentary</title>
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Chad Griffin is executive producing a documentary that will debut at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 24th and be distributed by Magnolia Pictures. 
In the film, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick will cast &#8220;a spotlight on the massive hypocrisy that allows powerful people to work against the rights of a minority when they hide their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.griffinschake.com/news/?p=224</link>
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		<title>Chad Griffin Comments on Kal Penn&#8217;s New White House Role</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chad Griffin was quoted in today&#8217;s LA Times column on Kal Penn&#8217;s new role as Associate Director in the White House Office of Public Liaison. 
&#8220;Appointing Kal Penn is a wise and strategic move that should foster a strong and productive relationship between the White House and Hollywood,&#8221; said industry political advisor Chad Griffin. &#8220;Not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.griffinschake.com/news/?p=219</link>
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		<title>Reflections on Maria Shriver&#8217;s Senate Testimony on Alzheimer&#8217;s</title>
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Two weeks ago, Kristina Schake and Marissa Moss travelled to Washington, D.C. to accompany California First Lady Maria Shriver as she testified before the Senate Special Committee on Aging and participated in Alzheimer’s Public Policy Week. They witnessed four days of incredible hope and dedication to an issue that so closely impacts many people’s lives.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.griffinschake.com/news/?p=189</link>
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