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Legislation required to end discrimination against the elderly
POLITICIANS must draw up immediate legislation to end discrimination against older people, a seminar in Londonderry has been told. Older people from across the North West gathered at the Age Discrimination research seminar staged recently at the Magee campus of the University of Ulster. Participants…
Author: Belfast Telegraph
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The new philanthropists: Silicon Valley teens
Original Source by Meredith May, Chronicle Staff Writer A group of Kenyan orphans is tasting milk for the first time. On a train platform in India, teachers are giving lessons to children whose families force them to beg from passengers. And in Thailand, health workers…
Author: San Francisco Chronicle
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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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Budget cuts affect schools differently, youths find
Original Source UCLA is an Atlantic grantee. California’s education funding has been cut by $17 billion in the last two budget deals, and schools are suffering. But some students are hurting more than others, according to a group of high school student researchers who presented…
Author: UCLA Today
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30 million USD for Vietnam's fight against malaria
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has pledged to grant nearly 30 million USD to Vietnam ‘s endeavour to fight malaria. The Vietnamese side will contribute over 853,000 USD to the fund which aims to raise access to and use of methods…
Author: Vietnamese News Agency (VNA)
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Big Money for Advocacy Is Needed From Foundations
Steve McConnell, former U.S. country director at Atlantic Philanthropies, heads the Civic Participation Action Fund, a new grant-making organization created with a grant from the Atlantic Advocacy Fund. Philanthropy achieved an incredible victory this year when the Supreme Court allowed same-sex marriage. Without essential financing…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Albie Sachs: From Freedom Fighter to Justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court
By Morris Arvoy Albie Sachs, an internationally known human rights activist and top judge in South Africa, suffered solitary confinement and exile and survived a bomb attack by South African security agents during the arduous fight to end apartheid. Sachs, 78, went on to help…
Author: Charles Steward Mott Foundation
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Stephen McConnell Appointed Country Director for the United States at The Atlantic Philanthropies
NEW YORK, NY, 21 August 2012 –The Atlantic Philanthropies have appointed Stephen McConnell to the newly created position of Country Director for the United States, effective immediately. In this position, McConnell will oversee all of Atlantic’s U.S. programmes — including work focused on Ageing, Children &…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Empower people to help themselves
By Jay Naidoo. I WOULD like to recommend that we think of philanthropy not simply as a means of “giving back”, but as a means of ‘giving forward’. Taken this way, philanthropy can be seen as a means to promote the stability of African society…
Author: Philanthropy SA
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On ‘The Case for Big Government’
By Gara LaMarche. It’s bold of Jeff Madrick, a journalist who writes about economics in The New York Review of Books and elsewhere, to title this book “The Case for Big Government.” Despite the colossal failures of government in recent years — from the inadequate…
Author: Brennan Center for Justice