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Atlantic Philanthropies Commits $3.6 Million to Aging Worker Initiative
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a $3.6 million commitment from Atlantic Philanthropies in support of its efforts to connect older Americans with career opportunities. The funds will provide additional support for grantees of the DOL's Aging Worker Initiative: Strategies for Regional…
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Report Examines Global Aging Phenomenon
Source: PHI Blog
Original Source PHI is an Atlantic grantee. By Matt Cardin A new report commissioned by the National Institute on Aging and issued last month by the U.S. Census Bureau examines the demographic and socioeconomic effects of the unprecedented rate at which the world’s population is…
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Morrow-Howell and McCrary win Generations United Award for evaluation of Experience Corps tutoring program
Source: Washington University in St. Louis
Original Source By Jessica Martin July 31, 2009 -- Nancy Morrow-Howell, Ph.D. the Ralph and Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work and Stacey McCrary, project manager, both at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, are winners of the prestigious Generations United 2009 Brabazon…
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Nonprofits Face Serious Constraints on Policy Involvement; Charities Engaged in Advocacy Despite Limitations, New Survey Finds
Source: Johns Hopkins University Nonprofit Listening Post Project
BALTIMORE, July 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- America's nonprofit organizations are widely involved in efforts to influence the public policies affecting them and those they serve, but are constrained by tight budgets, limited staff time and confusing legal restrictions, according to a new survey by the…
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Charles Feeney
Source: The Scientist (Life Sciences in Ireland supplement)
Famously private, and equally generous, Chuck Feeney helped transform Irish academic research. Original Source by Cormac Sheridan This coming September, the great and the good of Ireland's government and education sectors will assemble in Dublin as part of a yearlong celebration of the 10th anniversary…
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U.S. Department of Labor awards $10 million to train older workers for jobs in growing industries
Source: U.S. Department of Labor
Original Release: http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/eta20090890.htm WASHINGTON- The U.S. Department of Labor today awarded $10 million in funding to organizations that connect older Americans to career opportunities. The Aging Worker Initiative: Strategies for Regional Talent Development is designed to train workers aged 55 and older for jobs in…
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New scholarship created
Source: Royal Gazette (Bermuda)
Original Source Cummings Zuill is a member of the Atlantic Philanthropies Board of Directors. The Centre on Philanthropy is an Atlantic grantee. By Ruth O'Kelly-Lynch A new scholarship for charity workers and those working with in faith-based associations has been created. The Cummings V. Zuill Leadership…
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Chuck Feeney gives Qld $102m donation
Source: ABC Local (Australia)
Image: A concept drawing of the planned science and technology precinct to be built at Queensland University of Technology's Gardens Point campus. The Queensland and federal governments have welcomed what they say is the largest ever medical donation in Australia's history. American philanthropist Chuck Feeney…
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Smart windfall to recruit the best
Source: The Australian
Original Source University of Queensland is an Atlantic grantee. by Guy Healy BRISBANE will use $160 million in new and preserved funding to step-up recruitment of top researchers and consolidate a bullish claim to being the country's "Silicon Valley" for medical and pharmaceutical research and…
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SA tests Aids vaccine
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
Original Source The University of KwaZulu-Natal is an Atlantic grantee. by MICHELLE FAUL South Africa is launching clinical trials of the first HIV/Aids vaccines created by a developing country, a feat by scientists who forged ahead even when some of their political leaders shocked the…
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