Results List
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The State of our Union in Crisis: Widening the Lens of Children and Families
Keynote speech by Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, given at the Annual Conference of Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. This is an extraordinary moment to gather and reflect, as we have planned to do…
Resource type: Speech
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Rich pickings in an overlong, authorised biography of a billionaire investor
Source: Irish Times
BOOK OF THE DAY: The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder Bloomsbury 960pp, £25 reviewed by CONOR O'CLERY THIS IS the second major biography of Warren Buffett, whose net worth was recently estimated at US$62 billion, but the first which…
Resource type: News
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Wall Street's Tremors Leave Harlem Shaken
Source: The New York Times
by TIMOTHY WILLIAMS Before its economic turnaround in recent years, Harlem was a case study in disinvestment. Banks were unwilling to make mortgage loans or to open branches, national chain stores could not be lured uptown, city services lagged and the neighborhood became economically isolated…
Resource type: News
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Consensus on Learning Time Builds
Source: Education Week
by Catherine Gewertz Under enormous pressure to prepare students for a successful future-and fearful that standard school hours don't offer enough time to do so-educators, policymakers, and community activists are adding more learning time to children's lives. This issue is hot right now, said Bela…
Resource type: News
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Australia's Richest Man Plans to Give It Away
Source: The Wall Street Journal
The non-inheritance movement is going global. Original Source Following on the footsteps of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, the richest man in Australia has now promised to give away his fortune to charity. Andrew Twiggy Forrest, the iron-ore magnate behind Fortescue Metals, this week said…
Resource type: News
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Funding threat to advocacy groups for immigrants
Source: The Irish Times
Original Source by RUADHáN Mac CORMAIC, Migration Correspondent THERE IS a "real question" over the long-term future of immigrant advocacy in Ireland, according to a new report. This is because the two philanthropic bodies that fund much of the sector will cease providing support by…
Resource type: News
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Charles Feeney
Source: Time Magazine
Others Who Shaped 1997 Summary: Charles Feeney is designated one of 1997's influential people of the year by Time Magazine in recognition of his anonymous philanthropy over the last 20 years. For more click here (subscription required): www.time.com
Resource type: News
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'Philanthropic Divide' Between States Widens, Report Finds
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source The gap between the ten states with the most foundation assets and the ten states with the least continues to widen, a new report from the Helena-based Big Sky Institute for the Advancement of Nonprofits finds. According to the report, The Philanthropic Divide…
Resource type: News
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A California financier emerges as one of the nation's most prolific philanthropists
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Bernard Osher, called the 'quiet giver,' donates large sums to education and the arts. Original Source Reporter Paul Van Slambrouck discusses the character of 'The Quiet Philanthropist.' From a distance, the philanthropic world can look much like the for-profit world. The metrics that seem to…
Resource type: News
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The new philanthropists: Silicon Valley teens
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Original Source by Meredith May, Chronicle Staff Writer A group of Kenyan orphans is tasting milk for the first time. On a train platform in India, teachers are giving lessons to children whose families force them to beg from passengers. And in Thailand, health workers…
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