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Cover: The 25 Best Givers
With money tight, top philanthropists insist on more bang for the buck. Meet the 25 most effective givers. The KIPP Foundation is an Atlantic grantee. By Suzanne McGee. THE NAME OF THE GAME IN PHILANTHROPY this year is to make your dollars go far —…
Author: Barron's
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U.S. Department of Labor awards $10 million to train older workers for jobs in growing industries
Original Release: http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/eta20090890.htm WASHINGTON- The U.S. Department of Labor today awarded $10 million in funding to organizations that connect older Americans to career opportunities. The Aging Worker Initiative: Strategies for Regional Talent Development is designed to train workers aged 55 and older for jobs in…
Author: U.S. Department of Labor
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Communities In Schools Receives Major Grant From the Walmart Foundation to Expand Performance Learning Centers
Communities In Schools is an Atlantic grantee. ARLINGTON, Va., July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Communities In Schools, the nation’s largest dropout prevention organization, has received a major grant from the Walmart Foundation to improve educational opportunities for young people through its network of Performance Learning Centers…
Author: Walmart Foundation (Release)
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Teach For America Receives $1.4 Million to Recruit Math, Science Teachers
Original Source Teach for America is an Atlantic grantee. The Minneapolis-based Medtronic Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the global medical technology company, has announced a three-year, $1.4 million grant to Teach For America to expand its national recruitment and training of math and science teachers. A portion…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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New Center Helps States, Others Implement, Expand, Improve Participant-Directed Long-Term Care Programs
BOSTON, MA (April 6, 2009) The Boston College Graduate School of Social Work today launched a new technical assistance center that offers states the tools they need to implement a wide variety of participant-directed long-term care programs. The National Resource Center for Participant-Directed Services is…
Author: Boston College Graduate School of Social Work
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Nursing gets shot in the arm
Original Source Click here to listen to the interview. Summit TV speaks to Dr Victoria Pinkney-Atkinson about the award of millions of dollars by The Atlantic Philanthropies into South African nursing educational institutions that may change the face of nursing as we know it. Jane…
Author: Business Day (South Africa)
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Cash injection for nursing
Nursing education in South Africa is to receive a R70-million boost in the next four years with a donation from international donor organisation Atlantic Philanthropies. The grant is targeted at increasing the quality and quantity of nurse training in South Africa and to provide possibilities…
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Will the Financial Crisis Affect Giving?
By David Labrador in Pristina Foundations that support important programmes in the Balkans are suffering from the financial crisis in a way that makes their continued giving much more difficult. Much of the money that helps to develop the Balkans comes from private foundations that…
Author: Balkan Insight
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Retired Job Seekers Swell Unemployment Rolls
Original Source and Video New America Media, News Report//Video, Story: Leslie Casimir//Video: Josue Rojas and Lesile Casimir Editor’s Note: Many elderly people from minority and low-income communities are coming out of retirement to look for full-time jobs. But as the unemployment rate soars and the…
Author: New America Media
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Caring for Aging Loved Ones Can Be a Catch-22
In her long struggle to care for her gravely ill husband, journalist and Passages author Gail Sheehy recalls one defining moment. More than a year ago, her husband, publisher Clay Felker, was being discharged from a New York City rehabilitation facility after spending several months…
Author: The Washington Post