Results List
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Cohort Capacity Building: Is the Sector Ready?
by Anne Sherman Earlier this month, I had the privilege of learning from four really smart and experienced people who participated in a panel discussion that TCC Group, a global management consulting firm, presented in New York City, called, “Casting A Wider Net: Effective and…
Author: Stanford Social Innovation Review
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Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program is Accepting Applications for 2011-2012
The Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program is a unique opportunity for professionals in health and aging to receive the experience and skills necessary to make a positive contribution to the development and implementation of health policies that affect older Americans. The following is an…
Author: Health and Aging Policy Fellows
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Effective Advocacy: Lessons for Charities and Grant Makers
On 30 November 2010, The Chronicle of Philanthropy held a live online discussion about advocacy campaigns – including the lessons learned from the Health Care for America Now campaign. The team that conducted an independent evaluation of the historic HCAN advocacy campaign, Dan Cramer of Grassroots Solutions and Tom…
Author: 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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Reclaiming the Moral Life of Philanthropy
This column is adapted from Gara LaMarche’s address with this title given recently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1965, Bill Moyers, then a young White House aide, talked with President Lyndon Johnson about a pending bill to provide retroactive Social Security payments. …
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Viet Nam Injury Prevention Partnership at the 2010 Safety World Conference - London
London, England – The Safety 2010 World Conference which took place on 21-24th September, showcased many contributions from the Viet Nam Injury Prevention Partnership, an informal group of collaborators and stakeholders addressing injury prevention in Viet Nam. The Goal of the Conference The Conference aimed…
Author: Viet Nam Injury Prevention Partnership
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Initiative to support disadvantaged children receives Presidential endorsement
29th September 2010: President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, attended the Tallaght Stadium today to mark the success of the Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative, which will support more than 2,000 children through its innovative programmes by 2011. The €15million initial phase of the project has…
Author: TWCDI
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Young Grant Makers Urged to Make Bigger and Riskier Grants
By Caroline Preston. Nonprofit groups say it takes them 25 to 30 hours to apply for a grant. Yet most of the grants being awarded are probably $15,000 or less. That’s much of what’s wrong with philanthropy today, Bill Somerville, founder of Philanthropic Ventures…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Insurers to Comply With Rules on Children
By Robert Pear. WASHINGTON — Under pressure from the White House, health insurance companies said Tuesday that they would comply with rules to be issued soon by the Obama administration requiring them to cover children with pre-existing medical problems. “Health plans recognize the significant hardship…
Author: The New York Times
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Under Age and Alone, Immigrants See a Softer Side of Detention
by ANN FARMER Jose was 14 when he left his home in Oaxaca, Mexico, and paid a smuggler $1,200 to sneak him across the border. He made it to Phoenix and started on a long and familiar odyssey as he scratched out a living, first…
Author: The New York Times