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Nonprofit Consulting Goes Upscale
By Martha Nichols Boston It’s a long way from the wood-paneled offices of consulting firms like Bain & Co. to the yard-sale decor of a youth-serving nonprofit. Yet the Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit consulting spinoff of Bain, is trying to connect those worlds. Only six…
Author: Youth Today
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Simmons College Receives $1.8 Million to Ready New Generation of Vietnamese Librarians for Leadership Roles
Simmons to help developing nation rebuild its information and education systems BOSTON, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ — Simmons College has received $1.8 million to prepare a new generation of Vietnamese librarians for key leadership positions to run some of the country’s largest university libraries and help…
Author: PRNewswire
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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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Hurricane Fund for the Elderly Formed to Assist Older Adults in the Gulf Coast Region
Hurricane Fund for the Elderly Formed to Assist Older Adults in the Gulf Coast Region The federal Administration on Aging (AoA) has called upon the nation’s leading aging organizations to provide much needed assistance to older adults affected by the recent hurricanes. In response to…
Author: Grantmakers in Aging (GIA)
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Atlantic Celebrates the Life and Music of Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
In this 2011 video, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and students at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance reflect on the Academy, music and their relationship with Atlantic’s founder Chuck Feeney. We share this video in celebration of the life of Irish composer, musician and…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Jody's Stripping Away Stereotypes to Reveal Indigenous Pride
By Jody Barney I am a Birri-Gubba/Urangan woman from southeast Queensland. I am Aboriginal, I am deaf, I am gay and currently I am living in rural Victoria. I’m not yet 50 but I have been doing my work for exactly 30 years. As a…
Author: Sunshine Coast Daily
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By Design: Art and Architecture Signal Cornell Tech Mission
An aerial view of the Cornell Tech campus, showing the 59th Street Bridge over Roosevelt Island and the Great Lawn, in the foreground. By Daniel Aloi With architectural design and aesthetics reflecting its mission of collaboration and innovation, Cornell Tech is dedicating a new type of…
Author: Cornell Chronicle
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NBC News Highlights Community Schools
NBC Nightly News reporter Chelsea Clinton recently highlighted a local community school’s Homework Diner program in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Manzano Mesa Elementary School started the Homework Diner program in 2012, aiming to increase homework completion and improve the culture of the school community. With approximately…
Author: Coalition for Community Schools
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Nursing in SA Is in Crisis
By Katharine Child Nursing in South Africa is in crisis, with a third of nurses admitting they moonlight and half saying they feel exhausted at work. There is a severe shortage of nurses, leaving those in the system overworked. Patients in the central corridor of…
Author: The Times
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Faith, hope and unity
By Darren Evans One project in Northern Ireland has been so successful at reconciling Catholic and Protestant schools that other troubled regions of the world are seeking to adopt its methods. Darren Evans reports In the seaside town of Ballycastle, on the craggy, windswept coast…
Author: TES Magazine