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Strongly Led, Under-managed: How can visionary nonprofits make the critical transition to stronger management?
Source: BridgeStar
Original Source Without sound management practices, even the most successful nonprofit will be unable to sustain, let alone increase, its impact over time. And yet, when Bridgespan consulting teams surveyed senior staff members at 30 nonprofits, the respondents consistently rated their organizations much higher on…
Resource type: News
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Groups sue over New Mexico voter registration law
Source: Miami Herald (Associated Press)
Original Source By SUE MAJOR HOLMES Voter rights advocates want a judge to overturn New Mexico's law on registering voters, saying it has a chilling effect on registration drives and groups' ability to encourage people to participate in the political process. The lawsuit, filed Thursday…
Resource type: News
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Clean Bills of health?
Source: Sunday Tribune (South Africa)
by Anso Thom TWO Bills recently tabled in parliament are set to shake up the private hospital industry and centralise decision-making over hospital tariffs as well as the regulation of new medicines and scientific trials within the health minister's office. The National Health Amendment Bill…
Resource type: News
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Philanthropy 2.0
Source: Worth Magazine
Original Source A year ago, Jean and Steve Case's teenage daughter asked a question that inspired her parents to reassess their entire approach to philanthropy. Steve, one of the cofounders of AOL, had taken her- one of his five children-to mingle with Bill Clinton and…
Resource type: News
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Back to Basics: More charities are seeking - and getting - operating support
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Original Source By Elizabeth Schwinn When Earl Martin Phalen started Building Educated Leaders for Life, a program that prepares Boston inner-city students for college, he found it easy to persuade foundations to pay for tutors and books. But few would give him money for the…
Resource type: News
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Xenophobia emerges as a 'new apartheid'
Source: Business Day
Business Day, 1 April 2008 Xenophobia emerges as a 'new apartheid' WilsonJohwa Political Correspondent DRUNK on the alcohol they had just looted, some sang Awuleth' umshiniwami and continued into the night. By morning, two Zimbabweans were dead. They were victims of the latest xenophobic attacks.…
Resource type: News
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More foster carers needed, says HSE
Source: Irish Examiner
by Conor KaneHUNDREDS of children could be given the chance to lead a normal family life if more people made themselves available as foster carers, according to the Health Service Executive. While 92% of the 5,300 children presently in the state's care are with foster…
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Building Capacity for Maximum Impact
Gara LaMarche delivers the Keynote Address at the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York Symposium: Baruch College School of Public Affairs. It’s a little odd that I should be standing here this morning to share some thoughts about the role of evaluation in foundations…
Resource type: Speech
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Atlantic Philanthropies
Source: The Royal Gazette
By Kristin White For many years there has been a Secret Santa of sorts for our local nonprofits.When their good works caught the eye of this secret benefactor, they would be blessed with financial grants upwards of one hundred thousand dollars.In the nonprofit community, this…
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Appoints Gara LaMarche New Chief Executive Officer
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
For further information please contact:Kate Bullinger in New York at +212 916 7302Colin McCrea in Dublin at +353 1 799 5912THE ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES APPOINTS GARA LAMARCHENEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERPhilanthropy Executive Brings Record of Innovative Leadership to an Organisation Committed to Social Change and to Disbursing…
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