Results List
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Just and Fair Schools Fund Newsletter: July 2012
Source: Just and Fair Schools Fund
The Just and Fair Schools Fund (JFSF) at Public Interest Projects supports grassroots organizing initiatives that work to eliminate harsh school discipline policies and practices - and that uphold the right to education for all youth. Our newsletter shares updates on parent-, youth-, and congregation-led victories,…
Resource type: News
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Don’t Drop Out of School Innovation
Source: The New York Times
By Paul Tough. Last month, the Senate subcommittee that allocates federal education money weighed in on one such promising innovation, slicing, by more than 90 percent, the $210 million that President Obama requested for next year for his Promise Neighborhoods initiative. Mr. Obama first proposed…
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Chuck Feeney's Legacy Lives on as Philanthropic Fund Winds Down
Source: Irish Independent
By Ailish O’Horaand Programme leaders from Trinity College Dublin met their benefactor - philanthropist and former billionaire Charles 'Chuck' Feeney - at the Global Brain Health Institute conference in San Francisco last week. They were among 70 programme leaders who gathered together from across the…
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Rehab services gain as great investment race resumes
Source: The Irish Times
By Suzanne Lynch. AFTER TAKING a break in 2009, the Rehab Great Investment Race is back again this year. The fundraising campaign, which launched in 2001, is an innovative way for those in the investment fund industry to do their bit for charity. Five Irish…
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Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity: Scholarship & Fellowship Programs
Source: American Academy of Nursing
The American Academy of Nursing, with support from the John A. Hartford Foundation of New York City and the Atlantic Philanthropies, seeks applicants for the following Scholarship and Fellowship Programs: The Predoctoral Scholarship program is designed to support 2 years of doctoral work for nurses…
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Super cities are not just rocket science
Source: The Australian
We must future-proof our economy with knowledge and innovation: THIS month Brisbane sends a powerful global message that it is more than just one of Australia's most liveable cities and among the world's top 50 cities. Construction begins on the Translational Research Institute, a medical…
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On Mission Bay’s 10th Anniversary, Hospital Construction Surges Forward
Source: UCSF
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="320"] The new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, shown in this December 2012 photo, continues to take shape across the street from the research campus. Construction of the 289-bed state-of-the-art hospital complex for children, women and cancer patients is moving along…
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LSE Awarded £32 Million by Higher Education Funding Council for England
Source: London School of Economics and Political Science
[caption id="attachment_79386" align="alignnone" width="700"] Photo: LSE[/caption] The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has been awarded over £32 million. The grant, announced today, has been awarded through the Higher Education Funding Council for England ‘s UK Research Partnership Investment fund (UKRPIF), which provides funding…
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Brick-by-Brick – Investing in Capital Projects for Social Change
Source: Gara LaMarche
The business of making social change often has to start from the ground up. Sometimes literally! Since its inception, The Atlantic Philanthropies has invested over $1.5 billion in a number of capital projects to build the infrastructure that enables health to be advanced, children and…
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Advocacy – Often the Most Direct Route to Social Change
Source: Gara LaMarche
Supporting advocates who work to persuade members of the U.S. Congress of the necessity of allocating more federal money for children’s health programmes... Backing public interest lawyers whose arguments convince the U.S. Supreme Court that capital punishment for youth is unconstitutional.... Convincing lawmakers to…
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