Results List
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Campaign for Nonviolent Schools: We Marched 2000 Strong
Source: Campaign for Nonviolent Schools
On March 30, the Campaign for Nonviolent Schools led a march of 2000 students, parents, teachers, workers and community members to call for education funding & nonviolent schools. Watch a video of the march. The crowd began forming at Juniper and Filbert streets around 3:30…
Resource type: News
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Strengthening Schools of Health To Improve National Health
The University of the Western Cape was established in 1959, during the days of apartheid, as a university for students classified as belonging to the “coloured” population of South Africa. During the past 30-plus years, the university has had a varied political, financial and academic…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Amplifying the Voices of Families Who Need Change the Most
“Real social change has to be built from the ground up through the participation of millions of people speaking in their own voices,” says Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director of the 40-year-old Center for Community Change (CCC). To ensure that policymakers hear the voices of low-income…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Empowering Older People in Ireland to Advocate for Themselves
In October 2008, in response to the sharp economic downturn, the Irish Government introduced a supplementary budget with numerous austerity measures, including withdrawal of the automatic entitlement of people over age 70 to free primary health-care and prescription medicines. The Irish Senior Citizens Parliament (ISCP)…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Defending Workers’ Rights Across Racial Lines
Aside from physical devastation, Hurricane Katrina created opposing demographic trends simultaneously in the Gulf Coast region. New Orleans, which had been majority African American, now has a white majority. Adding to the complexity was the arrival of thousands of immigrants, mainly Spanish-speaking, looking for work.…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Bridging the Gap Between School and Out-Of-School Time Learning
Public and private investment in out-of-school time (OST) programmes in the U.S. has soared over the last decade. While more does not always mean better, Higher Achievement wants to know for sure that its programme is delivering results. Higher Achievement is an academic enrichment programme…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Improving the Health Care System One Community at a Time
The primary health care system in many Viet Nam provinces began to deteriorate rapidly in the mid-'80s as agricultural co-operatives were dismantled under a new Government policy. This deterioration had a particularly severe impact on commune health centres (CHCs), which serve millions of the country’s…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Using Litigation to Defend Human Rights
Since the September 11 terror attacks, US government policy and practice against the threat of terrorism has arguably violated a number of human rights laws and norms. The US currently detains more than 13,000 people around the world, from South Carolina to Pakistan to the…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Making the Most of Out-of-School Time
Every year, millions of youth leave US middle schools ill-prepared to enter high school. As a result, more than 25 per cent of high school students do not graduate within five years; and at least 10 per cent drop out entirely. Effective out-of-school-time (OST) programmes…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Changing Lives through Restoring Sight
Blindness from cataracts is a significant public health problem in Viet Nam. In 2002, there were 482,700 cases of bilateral blindness throughout the country, of which 71.3% are due to cataracts. Being blind poses significant personal, social and economic barriers for the afflicted, especially for…
Resource type: Grantee Story