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The six best U.S. cities for addiction treatment and prevention
Source: New York Daily News
Communities in Schools is an Atlantic grantee. by Dave Moore & Bill Manville BILL: In my Greenwich Village drinking days, everybody knew "Marvin." If you wanted a couple of tires for your car, maybe a new TV set, you called him and "put in your…
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Congress advances new law expanding children's health insurance program
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Some 4 million more children would bring the total to more than 11 million covered In a move toward health coverage for all Americans, the Senate voted Thursday to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to include some 4.1 million uninsured children. The…
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Bear Market for Charities
Source: The Wall Street Journal
A Harlem Education Project That Won Big Corporate Backing Now Faces Cutbacks as Donors Close Their Wallets Original Source By MIKE SPECTOR NEW YORK -- Geoffrey Canada has spent decades building a strategy for saving poor children from crime-ridden streets and crumbling public schools. His…
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Picking Up Performance When the School Day Ends
Source: Edutopia
After-school mentors can keep middle school kids from dropping out. Original Source Citizen Schools, an Atlantic grantee, was chosen by Edutopia as part of their "A New Day for Learning" series. Visit the Edutopia website for the full feature about Citizen Schools, and material for creating similar…
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What 'Yes, We Can' Should Mean for Our Schools
Source: Washington Post (Op-Ed)
Original Source By Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin In 1994, we founded KIPP, the Knowledge Is Power Program, by starting one middle school in the South Bronx and one in Houston. Today, KIPP is a growing network of 66 public charter schools serving 17,000 children…
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Report Recommends Ways to Boost Postsecondary Participation Among Older Adults
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Notwithstanding successful efforts by some colleges and universities to create lifelong learning programs for adults age 55 and older, many institutions remain stuck in outmoded, one-dimensional views of this cohort, a new report from the American Council on Education finds. Funded by the MetLife Foundation, the report, Mapping New…
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Funding pre-K and fighting crime
by FRAN WOOD If you're among the considerable number of New Jerseyans who question the value of taxpayer-funded preschool education, you may want to take note of some astonishing statistics reported in Trenton yesterday. Fight Crime; Invest in Kids, a national nonprofit anti-crime organization of…
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Six Entrepreneurs Over 60 Win $100,000 Purpose Prizes for Innovation, Extraordinary Contribution in Encore Careers
Source: Civic Ventures
Nine Others Win $10,000 Each, as Experienced Adults Prove to be an Unexpected Source of Social Innovation SAN FRANCISCO - One winner put his mechanical know-how to work and invented a $28 machine to help rural African villagers shell peanuts more efficiently. Another, in Fargo,…
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StoryCorps Extends "National Day of Listening" Through the Holiday Season
Source: StoryCorps
Acclaimed oral history project encourages Americans to interview a loved one the day after Thanksgiving NEW YORK StoryCorps, the most ambitious oral history project ever undertaken, will launch the first annual National Day of Listening on November 28, 2008. On Thanksgiving, Americans and their loved…
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Brunner calls summit on vote
Source: The Columbus Dispatch (Ohio)
Local, state, national elections experts will discuss what worked, what needs repair by Mark Niquette Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner announced plans for a summit in Columbus to review the Nov. 4 election and recommend possible changes in Ohio's voting process. The one-day summit, planned…
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