Results List
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Studies Show that Students Aren't the Only Ones Who Benefit from School-based Tutoring
Source: Experience Corps
WASHINGTON - Tutors over 55 who help young students on a regular basis experience positive physical and mental health outcomes, according to studies released by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The tutors studied were members of…
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Seeking to Intervene With Young Adults Before Crime Becomes a Way of Life
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By KAREEM FAHIM Almost every time he was released from jail, Wilfredo Hierrezuelo stumbled back in, once after an arrest for dealing drugs, another time after he assaulted a school safety guard. By the time he walked out of Rikers Island in October…
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Watchdog Group Calls for More Funding to Benefit Society
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source A new report from the Washington, D.C.-based National Committee for Responsive Philanthropyargues that foundations and other grantmaking institutions are not delivering as much social benefit as they could. To help foundations and others do more, NCRP has released a set of measurable guidelines that…
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Large Foundations Fall Short in Supporting Vulnerable Groups
Source: National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
Washington, D.C. - The nation's largest foundations only gave $1 out of $3 to benefit the economically and socially disadvantaged, according to the Criteria for Philanthropy at Its Best: Benchmarks to Assess and Enhance Grantmaker Impact, released yesterday by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.…
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The fight for universal health care
Source: Politico
Original Source Richard Kirsch, national campaign manager for Health Care for America Now, takes nothing for granted. On the very day last week that President Barack Obama released his budget proposal, which includes a $634 billion reserve fund to overhaul the nation’s health care system, Kirsch…
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Group Pushes Foundations to Give More to Minorities and the Poor
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
By Ian Wilhelm Washington Foundations should spend at least half of their grant dollars to help poor neighborhoods and minorities, a foundation watchdog group here said today as part of a series of recommendations on how grant makers should improve their giving and management. The…
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Challenge to Our Workforce: Young Adults and Low Literacy
Source: New York Nonprofit Press
Original Source by Peter Kleinbard Nearly 70% of youth who drop out of school have very poor literacy and other core skills. Indeed, this is the primary reason why they leave school. Yet most funding for dropouts is targeted to those who are most job…
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Forward Together: Empowering America's Citizen Sector for the Change We Need
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source The Listening Post Project at Johns Hopkins' Center for Civil Society Studies has issued a declaration signed by many of the nation's nonprofit leaders that calls on President Obama and Congress to help foster a "partnership in public service" between government, businesses, and…
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New Guidelines Target U.S. Foundation Practices
Source: National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
WASHINGTON, March 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Grantmakers are not delivering as much social benefit as they could, according to the new Criteria for Philanthropy at Its Best: Benchmarks to Assess and Enhance Grantmaker Impact by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. The criteria, to be released…
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The Impact of Medicaid and SCHIP on Low-Income Children's Health
Source: Kaiser Commission for Medicaid and the Uninsured
Full Report This brief was prepared by Caryn Marks, Cathy Hoffman and Julia Paradise of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. THE IMPACT OF MEDICAID AND SCHIP ON LOW-INCOME CHILDREN’S HEALTH Today, one-quarter of children in the U.S.…
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