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ICI Says Migrants Left ‘In Limbo’ by Immigration Policy
Source: The Irish Times
Immigration Council of Ireland notes ‘busy year’ for its frontline servicesChief executive of the Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) Denise Charlton. The ICI criticised Ireland’s immigration policy and how it leaves migrants ‘living in limbo’. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish TimesBy Patsy McGarryFailure to provide a…
Resource type: News
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Back to the Old Country -- How an Irish-American Views Living Here
Source: Irish Central
By LARRY DONNELLY “Your grandmother would be sending the men in white coats for you.” My father said this to me only half-jokingly in the summer of 2001 when I announced that I was relocating for a year to the west of Ireland. Horrified by…
Resource type: News
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A Nonprofit Push for Change
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Coalition of groups band together in battle to overhaul health care Original Source Health Care for America Now, Families USA, the American Cancer Society and AARP are Atlantic grantees. By Suzanne Perry As members of Congress fan out across the country during their August recess,…
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Hartford Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies, AGS Foundation for Health in Aging Award Over $2 Million for Medical Research
Source: American Geriatric Society (AGS)
Address Urgent Health Care Needs of Growing Elderly Population For Immediate Release For Further Information: Mary Anne Shannon (212) 308-1414 x301 New York, NY - The American Geriatrics Society, The John A. Hartford Foundation, The Atlantic Philanthropies, and the AGS Foundation for Health in Aging…
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Watchdog Group Calls for More Funding to Benefit Society
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source A new report from the Washington, D.C.-based National Committee for Responsive Philanthropyargues that foundations and other grantmaking institutions are not delivering as much social benefit as they could. To help foundations and others do more, NCRP has released a set of measurable guidelines that…
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Working Toward a Healthy Vietnam: Key Policy Messages From the VASS-SSRC Project
Source: Social Science Research Council
Vietnamese Version HÀNH ĐỘNG HƯỚNG ĐẾN MỘT VIỆT NAM KHỎE MẠNH: THÔNG ĐIỆP CHÍNH SÁCH CHÍNH YẾU CỦA DỰ ÁN VASS-SSRC (PDF) This brief provides key policy messages based on a large-scale longitudinal study from 2008 to 2016 in twelve communes in three Vietnamese provinces…
Resource type: Research Report
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Developing and Implementing Dementia Policy in Ireland
Source: Centre for Economic and Social Research on Dementia, NUI Galway
This report is a follow up to Creating Excellence in Dementia Care (2012), which informed Ireland’s National Dementia Strategy. It reflects on progress since 2012 on various aspects of care for people with dementia in Ireland and internationally with a view to informing future developments in…
Resource type: Research Report
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Atlantic’s Culminating Grants: Cultivating Change
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
In his latest instalment in a series chronicling Atlantic’s limited life, Tony Proscio at the Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society conjures the image of a harvest to describe our work in Atlantic’s final years. The metaphor is apt. We want to…
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Constitutional Review Body Must Prioritise Inclusivity
Source: The Irish Times
By Michele BrandtOPINION: The Taoiseach has announced that Ireland is going to have a “constitutional convention”, which will examine the options for reform on a range of issues: review of the electoral system; reducing the presidential term to five years and aligning it with local and…
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The State of Young America: Economic Barriers to the American Dream
Source: Demos and Young Invincibles
Today’s 20-somethings are the first generation, as a whole, to face downward economic mobility compared with their parents’ generation, according to a new report. While these “millenials” are the most technologically savvy, diverse and tolerant generation in history, their dreams are clouded by high student…
Resource type: Research Report