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Civic Ventures Announces National Initiative to Invest in Social Entrepreneurs Who Lead with Experience
Initiative Draws Attention to ‘Immense Untapped Resource’ – Americans in the Second Half of Life Eager to Make Social Contribution – For Immediate Release – December 1, 2005 Contact: Anne Purdy (415) 901-0111 Fenton Communications apurdy@fenton.com Stefanie Weiss (202) 478-6151 sweiss@experiencecorps.org Five Over 60 Will…
Author: Civic Ventures
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Chuck and Me
Former DCU president Danny O’Hare on Chuck Feeney, the Irish university’s greatest benefactor Excerpt: One of the people who can deservedly pat themselves on the back for what DCU accomplished in its first 25 years is a man who is the least likely to actually…
Author: Irish Times
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Getting on Board with Boomers
A handful of grant makers hope their efforts will spur more support of programs to engage older adults By Michael Anft Excerpt: One of the the largest grant makers, Atlantic Philanthropies, is pouring a big share of its assets into efforts to help nonprofit groups…
Author: Chronicle of Philanthropy
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ICI Sees 72% Increase in Immigration Queries & Launches New Information Guides On The Rights of Immigrants in Ireland
PRESS RELEASE The Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) today announced that some4,500 people sought information and support from the organisation’s Information Service in the 12 months to the end of July 2005. This represented a massive 72% increase on the numbers availing of the organisation’s…
Author: Immigration Council of Ireland
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Ceremony for the Joint Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding
Between the Ministry of Health of Vietnam (MOH) and the Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) on the Reform, Expand, and Upgrade the National Hospital of Pediatrics held on 4th November 2005. This project will ensure the NHP becomes a leading pediatric hospital in Vietnam. With modern and…
Author: National Hospital of Pediatrics, Viet Nam
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Solving the Immigration Crisis
The Road to Comprehensive Immigration Reform A selection of links to full-text articles from the November 2005 issue of The American Prospect on the immigration crisis and models for comprehensive reform in the United States. This special report was supported by The Atlantic Philanthropies. Click…
Author: American Prospect
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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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Barnardos Launches Seven Steps to Ending Child Poverty
Excerpt: Barnardos, Ireland’s leading children’s charity, today called for the rights and needs of children living in poverty to be top of the political agenda. This was the central message from the launch of the Barnardos End Child Poverty campaign which highlights the fact that…
Author: Barnardos.ie
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Crumbling walls, damp bedrooms: poverty in Celtic Tiger Ireland
Excerpt: A €15 million initiative funded by Irish-American philanthropist Chuck Feeney aims to help one of Ireland’s most deprived areas by integrating public and private efforts to improve people’s lives. Kitty Holland reports click here for more: http://www.ireland.com/today.htm (subscription required)
Author: Irish Times
