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Link to Video Recently two Atlantic grantees were featured in media coverage on the 9 February 2009 edition of the RTÉ television programme, " Nationwide." Big Brother Big Sister (5:45)Orla Nix looks at the youth mentoring programme operated by Foróige, the National Youth Development Organisation Pioneering Initiative (Archways)…

Dear Colleague, I am pleased to announce the 2nd year of the Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program, a unique professional fellowship opportunity. Supported by The Atlantic Philanthropies and directed by Harold Alan Pincus, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University (in collaboration with the…

Local campaigning leads to improved service for those at risk The Card Before You Leave scheme was initially recommended in 2005 as part of an independent review into the death of a young man called Danny McCartan. In April 2006, frustrated by a lack of…

By Ian Wilhelm. In 1975, Le Nhan Phuong left Vietnam, one of about 2,000 child refugees spirited to America by international aid groups. Today, he has returned to his homeland, but now it is he who is helping others. Dr. Phuong is the newly appointed…

By RACHEL BECK NEW YORK (AP) - Nonprofits that are struggling because their donors lost money with Bernard Madoff are getting a bailout -- but not from the government. Richer foundations are stepping in to help. Human Rights Watch, The Center for Constitutional Rights and others are…

by BONILE NGQIYAZA The African Development Forum has succeeded in reintegrating more than a thousand displaced migrants into communities since Gauteng's last refugee camps closed in October. Ivory Park, Tsakane's Extension 10, and Alexandra, north-east of Joburg, which were flashpoints during the xenophobic attacks, are…

Nursing education in South Africa is to receive a R70-million boost in the next four years with a donation from international donor organisation Atlantic Philanthropies. The grant is targeted at increasing the quality and quantity of nurse training in South Africa and to provide possibilities…

Original Source Four universities will divide among them a sum of R70m, donated to help improve nursing education in the country over the next four years, the Inyathelo organisation announced on Thursday. The grants, courtesy of The Atlantic Philanthropies, an international philanthropic organisation, are aimed…

New Programme Will Improve Nursing Education, Increase Ranks of University Educated Nurses and Benefit All South Africans Cape Town, 11 December 2008 - Nursing education in South Africa will be boosted by an unprecedented injection of R70-million over four years from The Atlantic Philanthropies, an…

By The New York Times Following is the first set of answers from Lucy N. Friedman, the president of a nonprofit organization that provides children with after-school programs. We are no longer accepting questions on this feature. Read Ms. Friedman’s biography. Read the second set…