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N.C. special licensing program rewards long-term care providers who maintain high-quality workforce
Source: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
For release: Immediate Date: August 21, 2006 Contact: Jim Jones (919) 733-9190 RALEIGH North Carolina has created a first-in-the-nation program to help reduce the turnover of nurse aides and other direct care workers who provide hands-on care to hundreds of thousands of the state's elderly…
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Drink-driving in Vietnam researcher awarded Young Doctor of the Year
Source: Queensland University of Technology
Queensland University of Technology is an Atlantic grantee. Dr Nguyen Minh Tam (photo, right) is an AP supported student in the Public Health Capacity Building Project conducted by Michael Dunne. Original Source: http://www.news.qut.edu.au/cgi-bin/WebObjects/News.woa/wa/goNewsPage?newsEventID=29705 A PhD researcher currently based at QUT has recently been awarded the…
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NonProfit Times Announces Influential Top 50 for 2009
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source The NonProfit Times, a leading business publication covering the nonprofit sector, has released its annual Power and Influence Top 50 list, which this year reflects the growing importance of the national service movement. This year's list also boasts the P&I debut of eighteen…
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'Poor Can't Pay' campaign launched
Original Source Age Action, Barnardos, Focus Ireland, and St. Vincent de Paul are Atlantic grantees. by ELAINE EDWARDS TRADE UNIONS and non- governmental organisations (NGOs) have formed a joint campaign group to oppose proposed cuts in social welfare payments or the minimum wage. The move…
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Inspiring Miami-Dade middle schoolers is young teachers' goal
Original Source and Video Breakthrough Collaborative is an Atlantic grantee. BY SUSANA MONTES-DELGADO In her black shirt, jeans and sneakers on campus, one might mistake 20-year-old Yamile Rodriguez for a student. No, she's a teacher. Rodriguez, a college junior from Hialeah, gave up her summer…
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Morrow-Howell and McCrary win Generations United Award for evaluation of Experience Corps tutoring program
Source: Washington University in St. Louis
Original Source By Jessica Martin July 31, 2009 -- Nancy Morrow-Howell, Ph.D. the Ralph and Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work and Stacey McCrary, project manager, both at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, are winners of the prestigious Generations United 2009 Brabazon…
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PHI Establishes National Policy/Advocacy Office in DC
Source: PHI
Bronx, NY - PHI, a nonprofit working to strengthen eldercare and disability services in the United States, announces that it has opened a national policy/advocacy office in Washington, DC. The opening of the DC-based office caps a year in which the Bronx-based PHI has significantly…
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SA tests Aids vaccine
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
Original Source The University of KwaZulu-Natal is an Atlantic grantee. by MICHELLE FAUL South Africa is launching clinical trials of the first HIV/Aids vaccines created by a developing country, a feat by scientists who forged ahead even when some of their political leaders shocked the…
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Social Justice: A Guiding Vision for Atlantic’s Final Chapter
Source: Gara LaMarche
All healthy institutions must from time to time take a look at what they are doing to see what’s working and what isn’t, to re-examine assumptions in light of changes in the environment – political, social, economic and philanthropic – and make any necessary adjustments.…
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Hospital trauma units under threat
Source: Cape Times
by Melanie Gosling Radical changes to the treatment of emergency patients in the Western Cape will damage the province's world-class trauma centres and compromise patient care, doctors say. The provincial Health Department's plan is designed to merge the overloaded casualty sections at tertiary hospitals with…
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