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Equal Education's Campaign to Build the Future
Out of the 24 793 public schools in South Africa 93% have no libraries, 95% have no science laboratories, 2 402 schools have no water supply, 46% still use pit latrine toilets and 913 schools have no toilets facilities. Take a look inside one of…
Author: Equal Education
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The Affordable Care Act Turns 3!
MomsRising is an Atlantic grantee through the Children & Youth programme in the United States. Posted March 21st, 2013 by Ashley Boyd Three years ago this Saturday, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama. Since then, the law…
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Job Posting: Executive Director, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)
Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) is an Atlantic grantee through the Population Health programme. Position Description Search for the Executive Director Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) Oakland, CA Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (“MEDICC”), a highly regarded non-profit organization working to enhance cooperation among the US,…
Author: Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group
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Judge Finds NYPD Routinely Makes Unconstitutional Street Stops Outside Clean Halls Buildings Across the Bronx
The New York Civil Liberties Union is an Atlantic grantee through the Reconciliation & Human Rights programme in the United States. January 8, 2013 — The NYPD has a pattern and practice of illegally stopping innocent people in public areas outside thousands of private apartment buildings…
Author: New York Civil Liberties Union
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Philanthropy Trends: Giving While Living
Irish billionaire Chuck Feeney is one of a growing number of philanthropists who want to make a difference now not tomorrow and a leading advocate for ‘giving while living’. The trend for giving in one’s lifetime and over a shorter time, rather than in perpetuity,…
Author: Philanthropy UK
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Behind the scenes of school infrastructure victory
OPINION Doron Isaacs of Equal Education describes the organisation’s campaign that got the Minister of Basic Education to settle their court case last week. On Monday 12 November I was sitting in a meeting at Equal Education head office in Khayelitsha and noticed the red…
Author: Ground Up
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Indicators: Essential Tools in the Realization of Human Rights
The work of the Participation and the Practice of Rights Project, an Atlantic grantee through the Reconciliation & Human Rights programme in Northern Ireland, is featured in this newly published guide to human rights indicators as an example of how people can effectively use qualitative and…
Author: United Nations Human Rights
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Rethinking Discipline
Kenneth Thomas, a 7th grader, ponders a lesson in his PRIDE 101 class at Haut Gap Middle School. As part of the school’s approach to addressing behavior, all students take a course in how to be a Haut Gap student. —Amelia Phillips Hale for Education…
Author: Education Week
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Elev8 Baltimore and Chicago Schools Win Department of Education Award
Elev8 Baltimore and Chicago Schools Win Department of Education Award Elev8 Picked as a Model School-Community Partnership As Part of Together for Tomorrow School Improvement Program WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) recognized two sites…
Author: Elev8
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Apartheid revisited, for a better future
By Sue Blaine STEPPING from the dazzling light of a highveld day into the dimness of the rooms in the ramparts at Johannesburg’s Old Fort — home, until the end of the year, to the South African History Archive’s exhibition on apartheid-era detention without trial…
Author: Business Day Live