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UCSF Receives $125 Million for New Medical Center at Mission Bay
Source: The University of California, San Francisco
By Robin Hindery UCSF has received one of the largest gifts in its 145-year history $125 million as the lead funding for a state-of-the-art medical center at the Mission Bay campus. The transformative donation injects a shot of adrenaline into an ambitious project that will…
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Change Comes to Washington: Will it Come to Philanthropy, Too?
Philanthropy should step up and seize the unprecedented opportunities created by the election of President Obama, said Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, in this speech at the Annual Meeting of Southern California Grantmakers in Los Angeles. When the terrific Sushma Raman –…
Resource type: Speech
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Integrating Youth Services
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
By Sam Scott. Al and Marshae Rivera keep their home stocked with candy—all the better to stop their kids from venturing out to buy some themselves. No one knows better than they do that in East Oakland, Calif., even short trips can turn violent. Their…
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Starting Over, With a Second Career Goal of Changing Society
By Steve Lohr Harvard kicked off a small but ambitious experiment this week that it hopes will become a new “third stage” of university education. For the student-fellows in the program, most in their 50s and early 60s, the goal is a second-act career in…
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Over-70s will lose right to medical cards
Source: The Irish Independent
by Eilish O'Regan UP to 10,000 over 70s will lose out on automatic entitlement to a medical card next year as the Government puts a halt to the scheme in today's Budget. The automatic entitlement to a medical card -- regardless of means -- is…
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$70 Million Effort Seeks New Safety Net for Workers
Source: The New York Times
by STEVEN GREENHOUSE The Rockefeller Foundation's annual report is chock-full of photographs of exotic lands and details of its grants to fight disease in Cambodia and help African farmers improve their soil. It is part of the foundation's focus on what it calls smart globalization.…
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Hurricane Fund for the Elderly Formed to Assist Older Adults in the Gulf Coast Region
Source: Grantmakers in Aging (GIA)
Hurricane Fund for the Elderly Formed to Assist Older Adults in the Gulf Coast Region The federal Administration on Aging (AoA) has called upon the nation's leading aging organizations to provide much needed assistance to older adults affected by the recent hurricanes. In response to…
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Finished, But Not Done
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
As Atlantic wraps up its work, including completing our grantmaking this year, one of our final acts is to invest in a community of emerging leaders whose efforts to build a better world will outlast the foundation.
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Medicare Plans Draw Criticism on Drug Pricing
Source: The Wall Street Journal
by JANE ZHANG and VANESSA FUHRMANS Figuring out which Medicare drug-insurance plan is right for you is confusing enough. Now, complaints are mounting about an obscure drug-pricing system that can force many older Americans to pay stiff penalties when they opt for brand-name drugs instead…
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Redesigning Hospitals, With Grieving Family Members in Mind
Source: Fast Company
Awaiting devastating news of a loved one in a hospital is harrowing for family members. The Design & Dignity Programme is creating comfortable, homey spaces in the wards to soften the experience. [caption id="attachment_80071" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] In 2011, the Mater Hospital received a grant to…
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