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Rockefeller Foundation Launches $100 Million Initiative to Strengthen Health Systems in Africa, Asia
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
The New York City-based Rockefeller Foundation has announced a five-year, $100 million initiative to expand health coverage in Africa and Asia and provide new health and financial protections for all. Through the initiative, Transforming Health Systems, the foundation and its partners will work to establish more accessible,…
Resource type: News
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Bill of Rights for North gaining support, MPs told
Source: Irish Times
by DAN KEENAN SUPPORT FOR a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland is rising, a committee of MPs has been told. Independent market research has found that 83 per cent of respondents believe it is important that Northern Ireland has its own Bill. Calls for…
Resource type: News
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Nursing home inspections set to begin
Source: Irish Times
by CARL O'BRIEN INDEPENDENT INSPECTIONS of all public and private nursing homes will officially come into force from today as part of a new initiative to promote better standards of care. A team of about 45 inspectors from the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa)…
Resource type: News
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Obama praises nonprofit, including N.H. group
Source: The Boston Globe
Harlem Children’s Zone and Teach for America are Atlantic grantees, and Bonnie CLAC is an Atlantic grantee via the Purpose Prize. by Foon Rhee President Obama this afternoon praised a New Hampshire nonprofit that helps poor people buy fuel-efficient reliable cars in a White House event designed to highlight innovative programs…
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US philanthropy's response to Obama's tax proposal
Source: Alliance Magazine
Original Source by Gara LaMarche A new administration in Washington seems determined to narrow the gap between rich and poor, which has widened in recent years, and to begin to strengthen the fraying social safety net by pressing for national health care -- a goal…
Resource type: News
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Access + Quality = Benefits
Source: Learning Point Associates
A Decade of Progress in Meeting the “Afterschool for All” Challenge 09 Jun 2009 Below is a powerpoint presentation delivered by Bob Stonehill, former head of the $1 bn 21st Century Community Learning Centers fund at the Department of Education, now the Chief Learning…
Resource type: News
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Downturn Puts a Chokehold on Those Caring for Family Members
Source: The New York Times
by JOHN LELAND Teresa Denk is 59 years old and lives with her father, a former mechanic who is 92 and requires constant care. Ms. Denk has not held a full-time job since 2000, when her mother developed cancer and required her daughter's full-time care.…
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Repairing the Broken Infrastructure of Justice in America
Steps to repair the US justice system are outlined in this speech by Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, at the Alliance for Justice 30th Anniversary Luncheon, Washington, D.C. View video of this speech at the Alliance for Justice web site. Thank you,…
Resource type: Speech
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Sharing Education Programme, Northern Ireland
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
The Reconciliation and Human Rights Programme in Northern Ireland supports work to enable collaboration and sharing amongst the 95% of school children who are educated in religiously segregated provision. The Sharing Education Programme (SEP), which is jointly funded by the International Fund for Ireland, and…
Resource type: News
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Increasing Number of Foundations Planning to Sunset
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source A growing number of philanthropists are adopting spending deadlines and sunset provisions for their foundations to ensure that global needs are addressed in a timely way, the Wall Street Journal reports. By giving away the bulk of their funds within a set period…
Resource type: News