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UCSF Children's Hospital has received a $100 million gift to help fund the construction of its new home at the UCSF Mission Bay campus near downtown San Francisco. The gift is a private donation from San Francisco residents Lynne and Marc Benioff, and is both…

By Michelle McDonagh. It is estimated that up to 5 per cent of older Irish people are victims of elder abuse, although some advocates for the elderly believe this figure represents only the tip of the iceberg and that the actual extent of abuse still…

Oireachtas Brief at http://www.oireachtasbrief.ie is a new free information service for social justice NGOs and community and voluntary sector activists interested in issues of poverty and social exclusion in the Oireachtas. The Oireachtas briefing service is provided by The Wheel and the European And Poverty…

Tributes to billionaire who's giving away bis fortune THE MUSEUM of Natural History in New York was a splendid setting for an extraordinary event on Tuesday night as more than 1,000 people paid tribute to one of the most remarkable human beings on the planet.…

This documentary, produced for Irish television by RTÉ Factual, describes the life of Chuck Feeney, philanthropist and founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies. View our Founder's 80th Tribute page >>

OAKLAND — The Oakland school district expects to have eight new and two remodeled student health centers on its campuses by the end of next year, one of the largest expansions of its kind in the state, according to the California School Health Centers Association.…

By SuYin So.  First lady Michelle Obama announced today a match of $45 million and a separate $5 million initiative to support the Social Innovation Fund, a new competitive federal grants program designed to expand high-impact community-based nonprofits. The first lady was joined by grant…

The Thai Nguyen University Learning Resource Center was awarded the 2009 Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries program grant from the Elsevier Foundation. Only six libraries received the grant. As described on the Elsevier website, Supporting Research Communities in Writing, Publishing and Sharing their Works in…

Gavyn Davies, the political and City veteran and co-founder of philanthropic think-tank New Philanthropy Capital, has stepped down. Davies, former chairman of the BBC and now chairman of Fulcrum Asset Management and head of the Fulcrum Investment Committee, is leaving the consultant after eight years…

EUR48 MILLION 'Centre of Excellence for Successful Ageing' has been unveiled at St. James's Hospital by the Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney. The facility will combine prevention and clinical care, research and teaching in the same location to explore novel approaches to the…