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A sneak peek at EUR55m Cork hospital
Source: Evening Echo
It's not due to open until July next year, but the bold new St. Patrick's Hospital and Marymount Hospice site in Curraheen is already taking shape. DAVID FORSYTHE had a guided tour of the new EUR55million complex IF you've driven along the Ballincollig Bypass lately,…
Resource type: News
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A Voyage of Discovery - Children Learn to Share on Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland
Source: PIEE
Children from 2 schools in Northern Ireland travelled to St Mary’s Primary School on Rathlin Island as part of a cross-community partnership. The partnership between the three schools is one of 11 schools partnerships in the North Eastern Education and Library Board’s Primary Integrating/Enriching Education…
Resource type: News
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Criticism of conditions in asylum hostels
Source: Irish Examiner
By Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent. An organisation which works with asylum seekers in Limerick has hit out at the living conditions in hostels. Doras Lumni, set up 10 years ago, provides a wide range of services, including English language classes to up to 700 asylum seekers,…
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Bring Odd Bedfellows Together to Promote Social Change, Foundations Urged
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
By Caroline Preston. Gara LaMarche, president of Atlantic Philanthropies, began a session on social-justice philanthropy here today with a light-hearted nod to what he called the "not uncontroversial" nature of the term social justice. The conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck recently likened social justice to…
Resource type: News
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Agent Orange: Congenital deformities plague Vietnam; U.S. slow to help
Source: Chicago Tribune
By Jason Grotto. DONG NAI PROVINCE, Vietnam. U.S., Vietnam split over whether defoliants used in war are to blame Part 3 of a Tribune investigation finds that the role of defoliants in Vietnam's high rate of birth defects remains a contentious question decades after U.S.…
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TILDA study gets a home for its research in Trinity College
Source: Irish Medical Times
Trinity College Dublin is an Atlantic grantee. by Gary Culliton The President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, has launched The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) Health Assessment Centre at Trinity College Dublin and the public phase of the TILDA study that involves interviewing 8,000 older…
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Elev8: Opportunity for Empowerment
Elev8 is a community-based initiative that brings together schools, nonprofits, philanthropy, parents and members of the community to ensure that students have the resources they need to succeed in school and in life. Implemented in four locations nationwide, the initiative is designed to improve educational,…
Resource type: Video
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CSI and social justice: towards partnership with northern donors?
Source: Published in The CSI Handbook, 10th edition, published by Trialogue, 2007
South African corporates have traditionally shied away from investment in human rights and social justice programmes. In this feature article, Colleen du Toit and Gerald Kraak from the Atlantic Philanthropies propose co-operation between northern donors and local companies to enhance the impact of mutual investments…
Resource type: News
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Towards Tolerance, Law, and Dignity: Addressing Violence against Foreign Nationals in South Africa
Source: International Organization for Migration
This report, funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies, presents research conducted for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) by the Forced Migration Studies Programme at the University of the Witwatersrand and funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). The Forced Migration Studies Programme at the University of…
Resource type: Research Report
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Columbia Journalism Review Announces First Ever "Encore" Fellowship for Journalists
Source: Poynter Online
Four Leading Downsized Journalists Will Spend Nine Months Writing for CJR and Preparing for the Next Phase of Their Careers. Civic Ventures is an Atlantic grantee. NEW YORK, Oct. 15, 2009 - The Columbia Journalism Review has selected four leading journalists as the first group…
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