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The Family Centre honoured its donors and volunteers at the Bermuda Society of the Arts last week. The annual celebration is intended to highlight the importance of the work of The Family Centre in dealing with families in crisis and the critical need for sustained…

The Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) will start a new service next week for people who have experienced or witnessed racist incidents. The Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) is an independent, non-governmental organisation working with and for migrants by providing information and support, advocacy and…

Concerted nationwide lobby of politicians will now get underway following Taoiseach’s refusal to rule out pension cuts. The Older & Bolder campaign today said that a cut to the State Pension would be an assault on vulnerable older people.  Older & Bolder’s statement was issued…

 Doug Mills/The New York Times The Historic Passage of Health Care Reform in The United States: How Did We Get There and What Lies Ahead? DATE Wednesday, May 19, 2010TIME 3:30 PM – 5:30 PMLOCATION The Atlantic Philanthropies, 75 Varick Street, 16th Floor, NYC REGISTRATIONSpace is limited; please RSVP online.…

Former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson delivered the third Ray Murphy Lecture hosted by Philanthropy Ireland in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin on 'The Role of Philanthropy in Tomorrow’s Ireland'. I am pleased to have been invited to give this year’s lecture in the…

A WORKAHOLIC, devout Catholic, sports obsessive who seldom went in front of the cameras without his make-up on. This is just part of the picture painted by the, until now, secret diaries of Bertie Ahern. The former Taoiseach's official appointments diaries, released for the first…

By Sophia Tareen.CHICAGO (AP) — Protesters nationwide vented their anger over a new Arizona law to crack down on illegal immigrants by calling on President Barack Obama to immediately take up their cause for federal immigration reform.From Los Angeles to Washington D.C., activists, families, students…

A fight is brewing over Arizona’s new law that turns all of the state’s Latinos, even legal immigrants and citizens, into criminal suspects. And this is not a local fight. The poison is spreading; there is talk in Texas of passing a version of the…

By Caroline Preston. Foundations are not institutions set apart from society and its problems, and grant makers can and should be involved in the fight for a more just and equitable world, Gara LaMarche, president of Atlantic Philanthropies, and Benjamin Jealous, head of the NAACP,…

Australia’s Prime Minister praises biomedical research at the University of Queensland as an example of what can be achieved when government, universities and philanthropy work together in partnership.It is good to be back home; it's good to be back in Brisbane; good to be back…