Don, there are a number of ACE initiatives going on the Philadelphia area. I couldn't tell from the zipcode on your member profile where in "eastern Pennsylvania" you are. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is apparently supporting some of those initiatives. If you go to the box in the upper right corner of the aces connection page, "alerts" and "dialogues" are boxed beside one another. You could identify other "eastern Pennsylvania" members by going to the "Members" column in the darker blue...

Originally Posted by Robert Olcott: Don, there are a number of ACE initiatives going on the Philadelphia area. I couldn't tell from the zipcode on your member profile where in "eastern Pennsylvania" you are. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is apparently supporting some of those initiatives. If you go to the box in the upper right corner of the aces connection page, "alerts" and "dialogues" are boxed beside one another. You could identify other "eastern Pennsylvania" members by going to the...

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