Results List
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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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US billionaire due to match CBRJ funding
Source: Irish News
Original Source By Barry McCaffrey An American billionaire yesterday announced that he is to match British government funding for community-based restorative justice (CBRJ) projects. Over the next three years American billionaire Chuck Feeney and the NIO will jointly provide £600,000 funding for community-based restorative justice…
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Afterschool nonprofit gets $2.3 million grant
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Original Source Iby Kristen A. Graham The Center for Afterschool Education at Foundations Inc., a Moorestown-based nonprofit, has received a $2.3 million grant to help improve the quality of programs that educate children before the school day begins and after it ends. The two-year grant…
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Latest State Data on Teen Birth Rates, Abstinence, and Contraception
Source: Child Trends
Washington, DC -- The 2008 edition of Child Trends' annual Facts at a Glance contains a state-by-state list of teen birth rates as well as data on the percentage of teens in grades 9-12 who abstain from sex or use contraception. Among the findings:Texas and…
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The Third Age: Now's the time to ponder long-term health care
Source: Columbia Tribune
Original Source By ANN GOWANS Neither presidential candidate has spoken about long-term care when discussing plans for reforming our health-care system. It seemingly is not a real issue for them. This is a bit easier to understand, perhaps, from the point of view of the…
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Chasing down retirement
Source: Chicago Tribune
With most Baby Boomers short on savings, longer worklife urged Original Source by Gail Marks Jarvis It seemed like a good idea. Baby Boomers who never got around to saving as much as they hoped promised to keep working past retirement age. The joke in…
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Earlier aid for HIV patients could save unborn babies
Source: Pretoria News (South Africa)
Original Source by Khopotso Bodibe The Department of Health may in future allow people living with HIV to get antiretroviral drugs earlier. At present, people relying on public sector health can only get the medication when their CD4 count, which measures the level of immunity…
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Advocacy Q&A with Gara LaMarche in Responsive Philanthropy magazine
Source: Responsive Philanthropy
Original Source NCRP LOOKS AT CREATING IMPACT Highlights two major foundations' funding for community organizing and advocacy, and critical role of nonprofit leadership WASHINGTON, D.C.-The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) released today the summer edition of Responsive Philanthropy. This issue features articles on the…
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Educators examine American Indian dropout rates
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
Original Source By Lisa Schencker American Indian and other minority students sometimes drop out of school partly because they don't feel connected enough to their cultures from an early age, an expert on identifying dropout behaviors told educators Wednesday. "If you don't have a strong…
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SERVICES AND CARE FOR THE ELDERLY
Source: Congressional Quarterly
SECTION: CAPITOL HILL HEARING TESTIMONY LENGTH: 1726 words Statement of Dr. Diana White Senior Research Associate, Institute on Aging Portland State University Committee on Senate Special Aging July 23, 2008 Good morning Senator Casey, Ranking Member Smith, and members of the Committee; I very much…
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