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Bridgespan Study Examines Rural Funding Challenges
Source: The Bridgespan Group
Rural nonprofit organisations in the United States that consistently attract funding offer three key lessons for others that are struggling, according to this case study commissioned by The Atlantic Philanthropies. The National Indian Youth Leadership Project and the Bridgespan Group are Atlantic grantees. Authors: Barry…
Resource type: Research Report
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A boom in 'encore careers'
Source: boston.com
Original Source AmeriCorps, Civic Ventures, and City Year are Atlantic grantees. By Irene Sege When my parents retired, my father taught courses on linguistics and Kosovo and the philosophy of time at a volunteer-run institute for learning in retirement, and my mother picked up pocket…
Resource type: News
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Why Mature Activism May Save the Planet
Source: AARP Bulletin Today
Original Source AARP and Civic Ventures are Atlantic grantees. By: Rob Gurwitt It was not a promising start. Getting ready to head out for the Utah wilderness, Lee Verner had packed her clothes in a black bag, laid it down on a black chair and…
Resource type: News
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A Move to Expand Volunteer Ranks
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By ELIZABETH POPE OLDER Americans who want to help solve the nation’s social problems will soon have even more opportunities to do so. Last month, Congress passed legislation that expands national and community service programs and includes provisions to attract adults over 55…
Resource type: News
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The Perfect Storm
Source: The Nation
The intensifying economic crisis slams the world of nonprofit organizations. Original Source By Eyal Press In the days between Christmas and New Year's Eve, Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, sat at his desk in Lower Manhattan and reached out to people…
Resource type: News
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Housing slump changing options for older Americans
Source: NY Newsday
Aging in place has become the only possibility for many as the weakened economy erodes real estate values and retirement savings by MARK MILLER For a growing number of older Americans, the housing slump has changed the concept of "aging in place" from a lifestyle…
Resource type: News
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Susie O'Neill is seeing life differently
Source: The Courier Mail (Australia)
by Fiona Purdon OLYMPIC swimming gold medallist Susie O'Neill and her ophthalmologist husband Cliff Fairley will never forget the unbridled joy and emotion from eye surgery recipients in Vietnam. One grandmother's reaction especially left an impression after O'Neill and Fairley were part of a Fred…
Resource type: News
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Lawyers: Ark. execution method 'dangerous'
Source: The Associated Press State & Local Wire
Original Source by JON GAMBRELL LITTLE ROCK (AP) - Past "botched" executions show Arkansas' lethal injection method remains "dangerous and inadequate," even after the U.S. Supreme Court found a similar method constitutional, lawyers for four death-row inmates claim. In a filing to U.S. District Court,…
Resource type: News
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Gary Bass Featured in Philanthropy News Digest on the Support of Nonprofit Advocacy
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source 5 Questions for... Gary Bass, Founder and Executive Director, OMB Watch Founded in 1983 with the goal of lifting the veil of secrecy then shrouding the White House Office of Management and Budget, OMB Watch is a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that…
Resource type: News
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Meet the man who gives the most
Source: Australian Financial Review
Few people outside of the philanthropic world know who he is, but Chuck Feeney gives more to Australia than any local business player - and he thinks this is wrong. It is difficult to tell James Packer, Rupert Murdoch, Frank Lowy and Richard Pratt that…
Resource type: News