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The search for meaning
Source: Chicago Tribune
Retirees seek fulfillment -- and pay -- by pursuing renewed interests by Tanika White When he started at Maryland State College in 1962, Daniel Maddox envisioned a career working with young people, preferably in physical education. But as often happens, life got in the way,…
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10th Anniversary - The Omagh Bombing - 'Public inquiry would help us all to move on'
Source: Irish News
"I won't be long." Those were the last words Michael Gallagher heard his son Aiden say as he left to buy jeans in Omagh on August 15, 1998. The 58-year-old has been very much the public voice and face of the bomb victims over the…
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Landmark ruling allows non-EU spouses to stay
Source: Irish Independent
Original Source By Dearbhail McDonald, Legal Editor THOUSANDS of foreign wives and husbands of EU citizens based in Ireland who were facing deportation are to gain residency rights here following a landmark European ruling. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) found Irish laws which required…
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A California financier emerges as one of the nation's most prolific philanthropists
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Bernard Osher, called the 'quiet giver,' donates large sums to education and the arts. Original Source Reporter Paul Van Slambrouck discusses the character of 'The Quiet Philanthropist.' From a distance, the philanthropic world can look much like the for-profit world. The metrics that seem to…
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Court Backs Bush on Military Detentions
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By ADAM LIPTAK President Bush has the legal power to order the indefinite military detentions of civilians captured in the United States, the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled on Tuesday in a fractured 5-to-4 decision. But a second, overlapping 5-to-4 majority…
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Grey areas undermine tax reform of unwedded bliss
Source: The Irish Independent
Original Source By Fionnan Sheahan COHABITING couples are the fastest growing family type in the country. According to the last Census, the total number of cohabiting couples was 121,800 in 2006 up from 77,600 in 2002. They represented 11.6pc of all family units in 2006…
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Atlantic Philanthropies SVP Colin McCrea interviewed on the Pat Kenny Show, RTE (Ireland)
Source: Pat Kenny Show, RTE
Colin McCrea, SVP, Atlantic Philanthropies was interviewed on the Pat Kenny Show on Ireland's National Radio station (RTE) recently in a discussion on philanthropy. The morning chat show of 8 July, 2008, broadcast an interview exploring the field of philanthropy and the role it plays…
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Letters to the Editor: Philanthropy and Racism
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Original Source To the Editor: Structural-racism training programs have helped hundreds of nonprofit organizations and community foundations, many of which are administered or operated by white people but primarily serve people of color, learn how to orient their theories of change from charity to empowerment…
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Do Unto Others
Source: CBS News: Sunday Morning
ANCHORS: CHARLES OSGOOD REPORTERS: CYNTHIA BOWERS CHARLES OSGOOD, host: Do unto others is a lot more than just words. Particularly for the publicity shy billionaire you're about to meet. Our Cynthia Bowers makes the introduction. CYNTHIA BOWERS reporting: On a day when a lot of…
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Appoints Gara LaMarche New Chief Executive Officer
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
For further information please contact:Kate Bullinger in New York at +212 916 7302Colin McCrea in Dublin at +353 1 799 5912THE ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES APPOINTS GARA LAMARCHENEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERPhilanthropy Executive Brings Record of Innovative Leadership to an Organisation Committed to Social Change and to Disbursing…
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