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Grant Makers Step Up Advocacy Efforts to Help Disadvantaged People, Report Says
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Original Source Foundations are stepping up their advocacy efforts to help the poor and other disadvantaged people, according to a report released today by the Foundation Center. The report found that grant makers and charity officials were more optimistic about the efficacy of social-justice grant making —…
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Social Justice: A Guiding Vision for Atlantic’s Final Chapter
Source: Gara LaMarche
All healthy institutions must from time to time take a look at what they are doing to see what’s working and what isn’t, to re-examine assumptions in light of changes in the environment – political, social, economic and philanthropic – and make any necessary adjustments.…
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Refugees 'beaten, shocked' by metro cops
Source: The Star (South Africa)
The Aids Law Project, the Legal Resources Centre and Lawyers for Human Rights are Atlantic grantees. by Louise Flanagan Destitute people who were arrested while sleeping outside the Methodist Church in central Joburg a week ago say police beat them, insulted them, gave them electric…
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Communities In Schools Receives Major Grant From the Walmart Foundation to Expand Performance Learning Centers
Source: Walmart Foundation (Release)
Communities In Schools is an Atlantic grantee. ARLINGTON, Va., July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Communities In Schools, the nation's largest dropout prevention organization, has received a major grant from the Walmart Foundation to improve educational opportunities for young people through its network of Performance Learning Centers…
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Raising Children Who Care in Times That Need It
Source: The New York Times
By ALINA TUGEND Original Source A FEW years ago, a friend of my son’s asked that, instead of getting him presents for his 11th birthday, guests donate to a certain charity. I asked my son if he would like to do something similar for his…
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Teachers accused of ignoring homophobic bullying
Source: Irish Examiner
GLEN is an Atlantic grantee. The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education heard that homophobic bullying needs to be tackled through the Department of Education instructing schools to include specific mention of it in their anti-bullying policies. In a joint submission by GLEN ( Gay and Lesbian…
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Older job seekers struggle to overcome age barrier
Source: Associated Press Online
The Urban Institute and AARP are Atlantic grantees. by CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER Like many unemployed older workers, 64-year old Allan Kellum fears his age has made it harder to find a new job. At a recent job fair, Kellum expressed interest in a supervisory role…
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South Africa: Total Hospital Shutdown in Five Provinces
Source: Business Day
by Luphert Chilwane Johannesburg — FIVE of the nine provinces experienced a complete shutdown of public hospitals yesterday as the doctors' strike for a 50% wage increase intensified. Doctors interviewed by telephone said public hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape, the Western Cape, Mpumalanga, Limpopo…
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Bill of Rights for North gaining support, MPs told
Source: Irish Times
by DAN KEENAN SUPPORT FOR a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland is rising, a committee of MPs has been told. Independent market research has found that 83 per cent of respondents believe it is important that Northern Ireland has its own Bill. Calls for…
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U.S. Nonprofits Stressed but Surviving, Survey Finds
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Eighty percent of U.S. nonprofit organizations are experiencing fiscal stress, with close to 40 percent reporting that the stress was "severe" or "very severe," a new survey released by Johns Hopkins University finds. Based on a survey of 363 organizations as part of the Johns Hopkins Nonprofit…
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