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Human Rights for Lesbians and Gays in the New South Africa: Still Much Work to Do
Zoliswa Nkonyana, Zizakele Sigasa, and Salome Masooa helped me to understand the critical importance of Atlantic’s work to support the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgendered and intersex people in South Africa. Sadly, these young women were not among the many South Africans I…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Charity no longer a cottage industry
The first thing greeting visitors to kiva.org’s home page is a photograph and description of a featured business. It could be a Ugandan cobbler, a Peruvian farmer or a shopkeeper in Tajikistan. Users can make small loans to these entrepreneurs and, during the course of…
Author: Financial Times
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Civic Ventures Announces National Initiative to Invest in Social Entrepreneurs Who Lead with Experience
Initiative Draws Attention to ‘Immense Untapped Resource’ – Americans in the Second Half of Life Eager to Make Social Contribution – For Immediate Release – December 1, 2005 Contact: Anne Purdy (415) 901-0111 Fenton Communications apurdy@fenton.com Stefanie Weiss (202) 478-6151 sweiss@experiencecorps.org Five Over 60 Will…
Author: Civic Ventures
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Increasing the Civic Engagement of Third Age Health Professionals
Taking Action From its inception AHI has worked to build a sustainable platform for public dialogue about a quality system in which every American is assured equitable and affordable access to basic health care. To do that we designed and successfully tested two central platform…
Author: American Health Initiatives
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Monster in the Closet: Winner of Reachout.com's 'Inspire a Generation' Film Competition
This dispatch by grantee ie.reachout.com was originally posted on its website on 9 November 2011 about the winner of its national film competition – Inspire a Generation – which invited aspiring film makers to explore mental health in a sensitive and positive light. Reachout.com works with…
Author: ie.reachout.com
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Ryans prove Ireland's foremost philanthropists with €10m gift
By JEROME REILLY Declan Ryan and the late Cathal Ryan, sons of Ryanair founder Dr Tony Ryan, have emerged as among Ireland‘s foremost philanthropists following a donation last week of $14m (€10m) to build schools in Sri Lanka — the latest in tens of millions…
Author: Independent.ie
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Immigrant Activists Regroup
by Daniel Altschuler Over the past decade, the immigrants’ rights movement has become one of this country’s strongest grassroots forces. Nationwide, grassroots groups and legislative coalitions have mobilized millions of people to protest punitive enforcement laws, promote legalization for undocumented people and demand access to…
Author: The Nation
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Int’l organisations help upgrade VNIO
The Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) from the US and the Australia’s Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF) have provided more than US$2 million to help improve the Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology (VNIO). The focus of a two-year project will be on four main fields: developing a training…
Author: VOV News
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Research funding vital for economy
By Conor O’Carroll. Last Friday the Government continued its commitment to investing in research with more than EUR296 million to develop infrastructure and research capacity across the higher education sector. With universities and institutes of technology bringing in EUR63 million from private and international competitive…
Author: The Irish Times
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Two Atlantic Ageing Grantees Receive "People of the Year" Award
Irish Senior Citizens’ Parliament and the Irish Hospice Foundation are Atlantic grantees. The Irish Senior Citizens’ Parliament is thrilled and delighted that its President, Sylvia Meehan, has been presented with a prestigious “People of the Year” award. Sylvia was presented with the award by Mary…
Author: Irish Senior Citizens' Parliament