Results List
-
Retired Job Seekers Swell Unemployment Rolls
Source: New America Media
Original Source and Video New America Media, News Report//Video, Story: Leslie Casimir//Video: Josue Rojas and Lesile Casimir Editor's Note: Many elderly people from minority and low-income communities are coming out of retirement to look for full-time jobs. But as the unemployment rate soars and the…
Resource type: News
-
Centers and Mentors Team Up to Unlock Dreams
Original Source The sound of a prison door slamming shut reverberates well beyond America’s correctional facilities—it impacts the children of incarcerated parents across the country. To help these children cope and prevent the cycle of incarceration, gospel singer and minister Wintley Phipps founded the U.S. Dream…
Resource type: News
-
Telling the Story About South Africa's Rural Poor
Source: Gara LaMarche
The transition from apartheid to the new South Africa is rightfully viewed as one of the major advances in human history toward equality and democracy. But as I have written here before, many problems still exist: the South African government became an object of ridicule,…
Resource type: News
-
R30m boost for training community service nurses
Source: The Sowetan
Original Source by Sne Masuku Durban University of Technology has received a R30million grant that will pay for an undergraduate programme to train nurses. Atlantic Philanthropies, an international foundation active in South Africa, will spread the payment over five years, but the university has already received…
Resource type: News
-
R30m boost for training community service nurses
Source: Sowetan (South Africa)
by Sne Masuku Durban University of Technology has received a R30million grant that will pay for an undergraduate programme to train nurses. Atlantic Philanthropies, an international foundation active in South Africa, will spread the payment over five years, but the university has already received the…
Resource type: News
-
Medical-legal partnerships: transforming health care
Source: The Lancet
by Barry Zuckerman; Megan Sandel; Ellen Lawton; Samantha Morton Doctors, especially those who care for patients on low incomes, are frustrated that their patients' health is adversely affected by social determinants. For those patients with an acute or chronic illness, social determinants undercut the effectiveness…
Resource type: News
-
A Moment for Progressive Change in America: How Can We Make the Most of It?
Source: Gara LaMarche
Now that we know that Barack Obama will take the office of President of the United States on January 20, the scenario planning that virtually all non-profits and philanthropies have been doing can kick into high gear. My e-mail inbox, and no doubt yours, is…
Resource type: News
-
Neighborhoods, Social Capital and Schools
Source: LISC/Chicago's New Communities Program
Original Source Principal Michael Johnson of Reavis Elementary, shown here with some 6th-graders, is working hard to create cohesion among his staff and build bridges between his school and its neighborhood. According to research discussed at the kickoff of this year's School Policy Luncheon series,…
Resource type: News
-
The business of the Truth Commission is still not done
Source: Cape Argus (South Africa)
by Fanie du Toit and Natalie Jaynes Precisely 10 years ago to the day, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu handed over the first five volumes of the final report of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to President Nelson Mandela. This week the Institute for…
Resource type: News
-
Report Cites Chronic Absenteeism in City Schools
Source: The New York Times
by JENNIFER MEDINA More than 90,000 of New York City's elementary school students - roughly 20 percent - missed at least a month of classes during the last school year, with attendance problems most acute in central Brooklyn, Harlem and the South Bronx, according to…
Resource type: News