Results List
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Ensuring That Vital Resources for the Poor Aren’t “Left on the Table”
Source: Gara LaMarche
Helping vulnerable and disadvantaged people to make lasting changes in their living conditions is at the core of Atlantic’s mission, and in every country in which we work there is significant and sometimes – as in the United States – growing inequality. The persistence of…
Resource type: News
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FARC fallout: Billionaire saddened over cutting anti-corruption funding
Source: Irish Examiner
THE billionaire backer of an Irish anti-corruption office has admitted he was sad to pull its funding when it got caught up in a controversy surrounding alleged IRA training for Colombian guerrillas. In a rare interview to be broadcast today, Irish-American philanthropist Chuck Feeney, 77,…
Resource type: News
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The Spirit of Bermuda – On the Waves and On the Shore
Source: Gara LaMarche
This may be the Atlantic Currents column most in keeping with the title of this series, because it starts with a boat on the Atlantic Ocean. In Bermuda, to be exact -- a small country of only 65,000 people, but one very important to Atlantic…
Resource type: News
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Why Donating Millions Is Hard To Keep Secret
Source: Wall Street Journal
Anonymous Gifts Are Growing, But Groups Are Under Pressure To Reveal Benefactors' Names As anonymous giving to charities increases, it's getting harder for donors to maintain the anonymous part. Wealthy philanthropists last year made 37 gifts of $5 million or more without publicly revealing their…
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Communities Fighting for Rights in Northern Ireland: You’re Not “On Your Own”
Source: Gara LaMarche
When Gerard McCarten, a butcher from North Belfast, steeled up his courage to testify before the local health authority about the suicide of his son Danny two years ago, the officials he was dealing with got up and opened the windows in the room onto…
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Fashion Police vs. Traffic Police
Source: Time Magazine
Thousands of motorbikes sweving at high speed and near misses at every corner can make the roaring streets of Hanoi a terrifying place for the uninitiated. But for Vietnamese teenagers like Trinh Thanh Van, the motorized maelstrom is a party on wheels. It's 8 p.m.…
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Coming clean
Source: Financial Times
The Philadelphia Foundation was one of the last places Nancy Burd thought she would work. As head of the Philadelphia office of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, a foundation grantee, she knew firsthand that it did not have a good reputation. But during the interview process…
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Graduation ceremony is just grand
Source: RMIT University
A graduation ceremony at the Ho Chi Minh City Opera House has brought the number of RMIT University graduates in Vietnam to almost 1,000. RMIT Chancellor, Professor Dennis Gibson AO, conferred 385 degrees to graduands from RMIT International University Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City campus.…
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Should Children Pay the Price for Inhumane U.S. Immigration Policies?
Source: Gara LaMarche
Every so often a story serves as a wake-up call that something is very wrong with the way the United States government deals with things. So it was with Saturday’s New York Times article about the actions of federal immigration agents last month in Ohio…
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Happily ever after school
Source: Boston Globe
A CHILD'S calendar has many long hours out of school. Afternoons, weekends, and summers offer some children rich experiences and adventures. But for other children these hours are wastelands of idleness, junk television, and opportunities to get into trouble. Fortunately, two state legislators want to…
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