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Billionaire Feeney is Dunphy guest
Eamon’s guest is the Irish-American philanthropist Chuck Feeney. In 1984 the billionaire decided to set up a foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies, to direct funds anonymously to worthy causes, and devote the remainder of his life to giving away his money. The foundation has over the past…
Author: RTE Radio 1
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Charity workers to get educational aid
Cummings Zuill thought he was going to the headquarters of ACE Ltd. yesterday to attend a diversity workshop. Instead he arrived to find he was being honoured with the establishment in his name of a $2 million education endowment for people in the non-profit sector.…
Author: The Royal Gazette
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Coming clean
The Philadelphia Foundation was one of the last places Nancy Burd thought she would work. As head of the Philadelphia office of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, a foundation grantee, she knew firsthand that it did not have a good reputation. But during the interview process…
Author: Financial Times
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Dropout-Prevention Program Sees to The Basics of Life
Original Source By Jay Mathews Washington Post Staff Writer Word was getting around about the new problem solver on campus. So the mother tracked her down one recent day in a makeshift office on the second floor of a Southeast Washington public school. “I don’t…
Author: The Washington Post
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Encore: Retire to the Couch With Some Good Advice
If someone on your holiday shopping list is showing some gray, a book about “third acts” could be just the ticket. Each year, we see dozens of guides that aim to help people prepare for and enjoy life in their 50s and beyond. Here are…
Author: Wall Street Journal
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DIT launches Mary Holland scholarships
Two new journalism scholarships established in honour of the late Irish Times journalist Mary Holland were presented at a reception in Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) yesterday evening. The awards are aimed at encouraging prospective students who are living in Ireland – but who were…
Author: Irish Times
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Encore --- In Search of a Purpose: Marc Freedman thinks 'encore careers' can help baby boomers -- and the country
With retirement for many Americans now expected to stretch out 20 or 30 years, the question arises: How best to fill that time? Perhaps the answer is an “encore career.” That’s the hope of Marc Freedman, founder and chief executive officer of Civic Ventures, a…
Author: Wall Street Journal
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Our Schools Must Do Better
I asked a high school kid walking along Commonwealth Avenue if he knew who the vice president of the United States was. He thought for a moment and then said, “No.” I told him to take a guess. He thought for another moment, looked at…
Author: New York Times
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FOMACS: Audience Prize - Best Irish Short Documentary -The Memory Box
The Memory Box’, produced by Atlantic Grantee Forum On Migrations and Communications, has won the audience prize for ‘Best Irish Documentary Short’ at the ‘Stranger than Fiction’ Film Festival, held at the Irish Film Institute September 13-16, 07. The film was also profiled on RTE,…
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2007 Purpose Prize winner featured on the Newshour with Jim Lehrer
Please use the link below to access a segment featuring 2007 Purpose Prize Fellow on the Newshour with Jim Lehrer. This segment ran on September 17 and features Ammie Jenkins, founder of the Sandhills Family Heritage Association, which helps preserve black family-owned land and culture.…
Author: Newshour with Jim Lehrer