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New Campaign Aims to Focus Health Reform Implementation On Improving, Coordinating Care for Vulnerable Older Adults
Survey Finds Older Adults Suffering Due to Poor Coordination, Communication WASHINGTON, DC — April 8, 2010 — To ensure health reform works for those with the most at stake, the National Partnership for Women & Families, Community Catalyst and the National Health Law Program (NHeLP)…
Author: Campaign for Better Care
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Campaign for Nonviolent Schools: We Marched 2000 Strong
On March 30, the Campaign for Nonviolent Schools led a march of 2000 students, parents, teachers, workers and community members to call for education funding & nonviolent schools. Watch a video of the march. The crowd began forming at Juniper and Filbert streets around 3:30…
Author: Campaign for Nonviolent Schools
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Campaign exceeds goal
By Aaron Munzer President Peggy R. Williams announced last Friday that Ithaca College’s first Capital Campaign has far surpassed its goal after raising $145 million – a sum that jumped after a last-minute gift of $25 million from the Atlantic Philanthropies. The college beat their…
Author: The Ithacan Online
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Gates, Broad foundations stop contributing to election-awareness campaign on education
by Clay Holtzman, Staff Writer About 16 months ago, Bill Gates and fellow billionaire Eli Broad teamed up to make education reform a top issue in the 2008 presidential election. With a pledge to spend up to $60 million, the two influential philanthropists launched a…
Author: Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)
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NCOA Launches One Away Campaign for Elder Economic Security; Releases National Poll on Struggles Facing Older Adults
Campaign Uses Video to Spotlight the Problem, Calls for Change in the Older Americans Act WASHINGTON, March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — More than 13 million older adults are considered economically insecure, living on just $21,780 a year or less. Every day, these seniors, and millions of Boomers, have to choose…
Author: PR Newswire
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Keeping Obama's Campaign "Army" Mobilized as a Force for Change in Peacetime
Original Source by Gara LaMarche Speaking to tens of thousands of his supporters in Chicago’s Grant Park, President-elect Barack Obama said his smashing victory was not about him but about “you.” In his effort to unify, he meant all of America, but he also was…
Author: The Huffington Post
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Health Reform Repeal Would Harm Children
United Sates House of Representatives Votes to Turn Back the Clock on Health Care for Kids Washington D.C. – Today, the United States House of Representatives voted in favor of repealing The Affordable Care Act. The First Focus Campaign for Children, a bipartisan children’s advocacy…
Author: First Focus Campaign for Children
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Senate Hearing on Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline Shows Need for Federal Action to Reform School Discipline
Edward Ward, a youth leader with Chicago-based community organization Blocks Together, testified at the hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, on the school-to-prison pipeline. >>Watch the full hearing Positive Discipline Approaches Should Replace Suspension, Expulsion and Arrest…
Author: Dignity in Schools Campaign
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Coalition of 60 groups representing over 30 million Americans launch campaign to fight social security cuts
Richard Trumka (AFL-CIO), Gerald McEntee (AFSCME), Justin Ruben (MoveOn.org), Dennis Van Roekel (NEA), Eliseo Medina (SEIU), Terry O’Neill (NOW), Donna Meltzer (Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities), Hilary Shelton (NAACP), Ed Coyle (Alliance for Retired Americans) Help Launch New Campaign To Protect Social Security. With press…
Author: Strengthen Social Security
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'Poor Can't Pay' campaign launched
Original Source Age Action, Barnardos, Focus Ireland, and St. Vincent de Paul are Atlantic grantees. by ELAINE EDWARDS TRADE UNIONS and non- governmental organisations (NGOs) have formed a joint campaign group to oppose proposed cuts in social welfare payments or the minimum wage. The move…
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