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Gaining a Voice After School
Why After-School Programs Are a Powerful Resource for English-Language Learners By Claudia Weisburd At the age of 14, Miguel, a recent immigrant from Mexico, is struggling to acclimate to a new school, language, and culture while also dealing with the social and developmental challenges of…
Author: Education Week
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12 People Who Are Changing Your Retirement
Joseph Coughlin describes his work as “trying to get people to ‘age cool.’ ” More specifically, as director of AgeLab, a research program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is pushing advances in transportation, health care and housing off drawing boards and into older…
Author: Wall Street Journal
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Companies See Volunteering As a Benefit
By Vinnee Tong NEW YORK–Colleen Bramhall’s friends used to think she’d sold out by going to work for Accenture as a consultant after college. Now she says they’re jealous. She’s been to Sri Lanka and South Africa as a participant in Accenture Development Partnerships, a…
Author: Associated Press Online
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Ensuring That Vital Resources for the Poor Aren’t “Left on the Table”
Helping vulnerable and disadvantaged people to make lasting changes in their living conditions is at the core of Atlantic’s mission, and in every country in which we work there is significant and sometimes – as in the United States – growing inequality. The persistence of…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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The Innovation of Age
Purpose Prize honors achievements of older Americans who use their talents to solve social issues They might not seem to have much in common: a chief executive officer making his multinational corporation more environmentally friendly, a former physical-education teacher now training search-and-rescue dogs, an erstwhile…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Nonprofit Groups Lag in Recruiting Older Workers, Report Says
Nonprofit groups lag significantly behind government agencies and businesses in their efforts to keep and recruit older workers, a new report concludes – and that could jeopardize their ability to fill a growing number of job vacancies. “Many nonprofit leaders, boards, and funders show little…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Not In My Back Yard - A Look At The Undocumented In Ireland
By Aisling Ryan Saint Patrick’s Day brought the usual bowl of Shamrock from Ireland, to the White House this year. But despite the festive mood on March 17, the Irish delegation was focused on developments in the immigration debate, as the Senate Judiciary Committee prepared…
Author: Irish Examiner
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Chuck Feeney: The Billionaire Who Gave It All Away
In 2003, Chuck Feeney signed off on a decision to spend all of his fortune in his lifetime. “Giving while living,” he called it. By Conor O’Clery Chuck Feeney today is a man of no property. He and his wife Helga live in a modest rented…
Author: The Irish Times
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A Laughing Matter: SF Comedian Looks to Tell the Stories of Dementia Patients, Caregivers
Josh Kornbluth is Among the Global Brain Health Institute’s 32 Inaugural Atlantic Fellows Artist Josh Kornbluth (left), a comedic autobiographical monologist, participates in a clinicopathological section with Lea T. Grinberg, MD, PhD, as part of his fellowship at the Global Brain Health Institute. Photo by…
Author: University of California San Francisco
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It’s All Downhill From 38: Why Ageing Is Not Just for the Old
A new centre for successful ageing aims to address the challenges we all face Nora Dodd, patient at Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing at St James’s Hospital, Dublin with clinical nurse managers Joan Garcia and Ray Donnelly. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill By Paul Cullen How…
Author: The Irish Times