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Campaign Launched to Improve Visibility For Lesbian and Gay Families Living in Ireland
Source: Marriage Equality
Today Marriage Equality is launching We Are Family, a national poster campaign which gives visibility to LGBT families living in Ireland. The groundbreaking campaign shatters the silence and myths surrounding our families and calls on the Government to recognise and protect same-sex couples and our…
Resource type: News
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Congressman Yarmuth Calls for Creation of White House Office on Children and Youth
Source: Forum for Youth Investment
Plan would get kids much-needed attention, streamline bureaucracy, cut govt. waste http://www.forumforyouthinvestment.org/node/674 The Forum for Youth Investment is delighted that Congressman Yarmuth sent a letter to President Obama days after he took office calling for him to issue an executive order that would create a White House…
Resource type: News
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Families 'locked in poverty cycle'
Source: Irish Times
Better education levels and more economic resources mean we have an awesome responsibility to ensure that children of all backgrounds benefit from "the rising tide", President Mary McAleese said yesterday. She paid tribute to the work of staff at a Galway-based family research centre established…
Resource type: News
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National Academy of Sciences Board on Children Youth and Families
$1,800,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Alliance for Children and Families
$2,700,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Children's Rights Alliance Bi-Annual Symposium 2009: 'Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?'
Source: Children's Rights Alliance
Children's Rights Alliance is an Atlantic grantee. On 2 April, over 100 delegates descended on Dublin Castle to attend the Children's Rights Alliance's first biennial symposium, where they pledged to make Ireland one of the best places in the world to be a child. Entitled…
Resource type: News
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Programme Seeks to Aid Disadvantaged Children in Republic of Ireland
A project to help disadvantaged children in three communities in Ireland will gather evidence about what works and what does not and apply that knowledge to future programmes, said John R. Healy, former Chief Executive, The Atlantic Philanthropies, in this speech in Dublin announcing the…
Resource type: Speech
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A New Force to Make Washington Notice Kids
Source: Youth Today
America's Promise hosts an $8 million start-up to focus on budget and tax polices. Can it help the youth field 'speak to Republicans'? Bunch of liberals. That's how official Washing-ton sees many of the country's major advocates for disadvantaged and at-risk youth. With Republicans controlling…
Resource type: News
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Not Just a Numbers Game: Budget Cuts Threaten Those Already Struggling
Source: Gara LaMarche
“Oh, I really feel we’ve been led up the garden path…We are the people that worked. We put this country on its feet, and we’re the people that are being hit every which way.” - Diane, age 81, in Dublin, Ireland Across many of the geographies…
Resource type: News
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A Voyage of Discovery - Children Learn to Share on Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland
Source: PIEE
Children from 2 schools in Northern Ireland travelled to St Mary’s Primary School on Rathlin Island as part of a cross-community partnership. The partnership between the three schools is one of 11 schools partnerships in the North Eastern Education and Library Board’s Primary Integrating/Enriching Education…
Resource type: News
