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Schools sharing across the community in ground-breaking pilot scheme
Source: The Fermanagh Herald
The Fermanagh Trust Shared Education Programme is an Atlantic grantee. The new term in Fermanagh's schools has got off to an exciting start, with teachers and pupils involved actively in a range of new shared education projects, under the Fermanagh Trust Shared Education Programme (FTSEP).…
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Red Cross opens R125m complex
Source: News24.com (South Africa)
Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital is an Atlantic grantee. Cape Town - Cape Town's Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, the only stand alone, specialist hospital in southern Africa dedicated entirely to children, officially opened its new R125m Operating Theatre Complex on Wednesday. The…
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Two Atlantic Ageing Grantees Receive "People of the Year" Award
Source: Irish Senior Citizens' Parliament
Irish Senior Citizens' Parliament and the Irish Hospice Foundation are Atlantic grantees. The Irish Senior Citizens' Parliament is thrilled and delighted that its President, Sylvia Meehan, has been presented with a prestigious "People of the Year" award. Sylvia was presented with the award by Mary…
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Civic Ventures is latest recipient of Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship
Source: Civic Ventures
Civic Ventures is an Atlantic grantee. Skoll Foundation Invests in Leading Social Entrepreneurs Foundation commits total of $14,165,000 in new funding Civic Ventures is latest recipient of Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship Ashoka and ShoreCap II also receive Skoll investments PALO ALTO, Calif. Sept. 1,…
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Youth camps, classes heated up summer
Source: Local Initiatives Support Corporation / New Communities Program
Original Source By Maureen Kelleher and Richard Muhammad As you get closer to the gym at Reavis elementary school in Bronzeville, the music, singing, clapping and chanting swells. Inside, Marisa Cordeiro, a capoeira instructor, leads children through exercises in the Brazilian martial art - using…
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Rights group urges tougher line on Zimbabwe
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
Original Source Human Rights Watch is an Atlantic grantee. Southern African leaders must pressure Zimbabwe's unity government to make greater political reforms to prevent the country from sliding back into turmoil, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday. Leaders from the 15-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC)…
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National Health Insurance a priority, says minister
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
Original Source JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA Implementing the National Health Insurance (NHI) was one of the department's priorities between 2009 and 2014, deputy Health Minister Dr Molefi Sefularo said. He was addressing the annual conference of the Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) at Sun City on…
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Newsmakers: Richard Barth, Chief Executive Officer, KIPP Foundation
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source KIPP and Teach for America are Atlantic grantees. Richard Barth, Chief Executive Officer, KIPP Foundation The Obama administration has thrown down the gauntlet to educators and legislators to fix "an education system that used to be...the best in the world, and no longer…
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N.C. special licensing program rewards long-term care providers who maintain high-quality workforce
Source: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
For release: Immediate Date: August 21, 2006 Contact: Jim Jones (919) 733-9190 RALEIGH North Carolina has created a first-in-the-nation program to help reduce the turnover of nurse aides and other direct care workers who provide hands-on care to hundreds of thousands of the state's elderly…
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Real Life: The key to long life
Source: Irish Independent - Supplement
Original Source The TILDA study is funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies. Trinity College Dublin is an Atlantic grantee. The Irish population is getting older at an unprecedented rate, and now a new 10-year study is aiming to make Ireland the best place in the world…
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