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The American Association of Community Colleges is developing a nationwide program to retrain the crush of adults who will want -- and need -- to find new work after traditional retirement age, the group will announce today. The organization, which represents 1,200 community colleges across…

Wanted: Unsung heroes Excerpt: The new Purpose Prize is intended to inspire Americans to use their experience for the greater good as they approach retirement, said prize director Jim Emerman. "Our ideal candidates are unsung heroes who are making a social contribution after midlife and…

...To Help At-Risk Children One of the most common prejudices against older adults in the US is the belief that a majority of them are sick or disabled. The reality is that 85 per cent of older Americans are basically healthy, active and independent. If…

Original Source and Audio by Nancy Mullane A Mexican immigrant gardener in the Bay Area has just been awarded a $100,000 National Purpose Prize for his work raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to send Hispanic kids to college. Catalino Tapia saved all his money to send…

At the beginning of every nonprofit movement - whether it succeeds or fails - the founders probably feel like Odysseus. No matter how much momentum you start with, and how many battles you win in creating an idea and whipping up enthusiasm for it, actually…

Remarks of Jackie Williams Kaye, Strategic Learning & Evaluation Executive, The Atlantic Philanthropies, at the New Mexico Convening of Integrated Services in Schools (ISS).  I am very happy to be here on behalf of Atlantic together with my colleagues Mini, Nicole and Alice. Alice Duff…

The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers, and the Aspen Institute are Atlantic grantees. OMAHADonors say they give more, give more strategically, and are more knowledgeable about nonprofit organizations and problems in their communities when they participate in…

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 14 Feb 2008 By Rachel Melcer Bob Calcaterra proudly presided over the Tuesday night graduation of three companies from the Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise, a biotech business incubator he has run since its inception. It wasn't the first such ceremony in…

As the Constitutional Convention of 1787 came to a close, after three and a half months of deliberation, a lady asked Dr. Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it." -…

By Joe Wilensky Today, April 23, 2021, marks both the 90th birthday of Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56 and the official unveiling of Feeney Way on Cornell’s Ithaca campus, honoring the man who has been called the university’s “third founder.” Feeney, the founding chairman of…