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Gara LaMarche on Creating Progressive Narratives
The times are difficult and the challenges are great. But a sober analysis of our predicament suggests that there are accomplishments to be celebrated and lessons to be learned from the intense period of history we have just lived through that can inform a comeback…
Author: GRITtv
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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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Older people's commissioner backed
A new commissioner for older people in Northern Ireland will not be a toothless tiger, the Assembly has been told. Whoever takes up the position will have an extensive range of powers to investigate complaints and take legal action, Junior Minister Robin Newton pledged. He…
Author: Belfast Telegraph
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Campaign starts to protect rights of domestic workers
By Jamie Smyth, Social Affairs Correspondent. PEOPLE EMPLOYING domestic workers such as nannies, housekeepers and cleaners are being actively targeted for inspections for the first time under a new campaign undertaken by the National Employment Rights Authority. A pilot phase of inspections will begin in…
Author: Irish Times
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10 Americans Over 60 Win The Purpose Prize for Making an Extraordinary Impact in their Encore Careers
News Release From Fighting U.S. Foreclosures to Rebuilding Afghanistan, 10 Social Innovators Receive $750,000 Total for Combining Passion and Experience for Social Good Civic Ventures today announced the 2010 winners of its Purpose Prize. Five $100,000 and five $50,000 prizes will go to social…
Author: Civic Ventures
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Preschool raises morality levels, says study
RONAN McGREEVY CHILDREN WHO have the benefit of preschool are less likely to lie, cheat or steal as adults, a conference was told yesterday. US educator Dr Larry Schweinhart, who pioneered a long-term longitudinal study into the benefits of early childhood education, said it was…
Author: The Irish Times
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Family Foundations Consider Issue of Perpetuity vs Limited Life
Most family foundations in the U.S. are set up to exist in perpetuity, but the number of limited-life foundations is increasing. The decision to continue for generations or spend down is an individual one, and there are valid reasons for each approach, according to Susan…
Author: Advisor One
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Influencing Policy at All Levels of Government
By Gara LaMarche Not too many years ago, it was a hard sell to convince most foundations that involvement in public policy, and particularly the support of advocacy, was an essential element of carrying out their philanthropic mission, whatever that happened to be. Many had…
Author: Insight Magazine
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Deficit panel leaders propose curbs on Social Security, major cuts in spending, tax breaks
By Lori Montgomery The chairmen of President Obama’s bipartisan deficit commission on Wednesday offered an aggressive plan to rebalance the federal budget by curbing increases in Social Security benefits, slashing spending at the Pentagon and other agencies, and wiping out more than $100 billion a year…
Author: The Washington Post
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Communities deal with ageing populations
By Hong Thuy THANH HOA — The burden of bringing up two mentally disabled sons has become easier for 69-year-old war invalid Do Thi Mui since she joined an older people’s self-help club three months ago. A lonely and poverty-stricken widow, she often has to…
Author: Viet Nam News
