Results List
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Can You Be Strategic Without Data?
Want to ensure that communications staff is included meetings where your foundation’s broader strategy is set? Start capturing data you can present to demonstrate the essential link between communications and impact. That’s one of the messages that comes through loud and clear in this conversation…
Resource type: Video
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New building boost for African research
Source: West Cape News
By Caitlin Ross. A state-of-the-art Life Sciences building – the best of its kind on the continent – was officially opened on Tuesday at the University of the Western Cape. Speaking at the opening ceremony, attended by an illustrious guest list including figureheads in education…
Resource type: News
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James Roosevelt Remarks on the Social Security
Source: C-SPAN
James Roosevelt, grandson of President Franklin Roosevelt, discussed Social Security and why it’s still needed today. According to a recent Social Security and Medicare report, Social Security will pay out more in benefits than it receives in tax revenues for this year and next year.…
Resource type: News
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Are Your Communications Working?
Source: The Communications Network
Want to ensure that communications staff is included meetings where your foundation’s broader strategy is set? Start capturing data you can present to demonstrate the essential link between communications and impact. That’s one of the messages that comes through loud and clear in this conversation…
Resource type: News
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Dall W. Forsythe Appointed Vice President for Finance and Operations at The Atlantic Philanthropies
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
July 6, 2010 – Dall W. Forsythe has been appointed Vice President for Finance and Operations at The Atlantic Philanthropies effective July 6, 2010, President and CEO Gara LaMarche announced today. In this role, Forsythe will oversee the Finance and Information Technology departments and will…
Resource type: News
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Same-sex partnership law 'one of biggest changes in 90 years'
Source: Irish Independent
By Fionnan Sheahan. Same-sex couples will be able to avail of legally-binding civil partnerships for the first time from next year.The Dáil last night completed its work on the Civil Partnership Bill, which is expected to be signed into law in the autumn.The Bill passed…
Resource type: News
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Recent Children & Youth events help raise awareness for children's rights
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
The Children & Youth teams in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland jointly hosted a Youth Civic Action Workshop together with grantees SpunOut.ie and the UNESCO Chairs at NUIG and University of Ulster. They also hosted a joint event to present their new Strategy…
Resource type: News
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On ‘The Case for Big Government’
Source: Brennan Center for Justice
By Gara LaMarche. It’s bold of Jeff Madrick, a journalist who writes about economics in The New York Review of Books and elsewhere, to title this book “The Case for Big Government.” Despite the colossal failures of government in recent years -- from the inadequate…
Resource type: News
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Carey launches new initiative to support philanthropic giving in Ireland
Source: Dept. of Community, Equality & Gaeltacht Affairs
Pat Carey T.D., Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, today (Monday, 21st June 2010) launched a new Government initiative to support philanthropy in Ireland. The key elements of the 5 point plan - which aim to create an enabling environment for planned giving -…
Resource type: News
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Helmet Day! Lessons Learned on Vietnam’s Road to Healthy Behavior
Source: The Social Science Research Council
This report, produced by the Social Science Research Council, covers the history and lessons from an eight-year effort that resulted in a national law mandating helmet use by motorcycle riders. Results showed decreases in serious head injuries and road traffic deaths. The research provides a…
Resource type: Evaluation