SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA —
Using a little-known venture-capital tool she called the ?loaves and fishes thing,? Michelle Hall took the $1,000 she received from Oprah Winfrey &#8212 under strict orders to give it all away &#8212 and grew the charity pot to more than $30,000 in just one week. As a result, three Bay Area nonprofit groups are seeing a bountiful autumn harvest thanks to fundraising efforts by Hall and other members of her local congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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