Results List
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Health Care Bill Amendment Highlights Direct-Care Workforce
Source: PHI blog
Original Source Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI) and the Iowa Caregivers Association are Atlantic grantees. The 2008 Institute of Medicine report, Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce was funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies. by Aaron Toleos An amendment to America’s Affordable Health Choices Act added in the House…
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Foundation Center Launches Tool to Visualize Impact of Philanthropy
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
The New York City-based Foundation Center has announced the launch of a data visualization tool to help grantmakers, policy makers, researchers, and others better understand the impact of philanthropy around the world. Philanthropy In/Sight allows registered users to create customized Google maps to explore giving patterns,…
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Grant Makers Step Up Advocacy Efforts to Help Disadvantaged People, Report Says
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Original Source Foundations are stepping up their advocacy efforts to help the poor and other disadvantaged people, according to a report released today by the Foundation Center. The report found that grant makers and charity officials were more optimistic about the efficacy of social-justice grant making —…
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Communities In Schools Receives Major Grant From the Walmart Foundation to Expand Performance Learning Centers
Source: Walmart Foundation (Release)
Communities In Schools is an Atlantic grantee. ARLINGTON, Va., July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Communities In Schools, the nation's largest dropout prevention organization, has received a major grant from the Walmart Foundation to improve educational opportunities for young people through its network of Performance Learning Centers…
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Research aims to help more than 3,000 young carers
Source: The Irish Times
NUI Galway is an Atlantic grantee. by LORNA SIGGINS Western Correspondent MORE THAN 3,000 Irish teenagers between the ages of 15 and 17 are caring for parents or relatives, according to recent Census figures. However, new research commissioned from NUI Galway (NUIG) by the Minister of State…
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South Africa: Total Hospital Shutdown in Five Provinces
Source: Business Day
by Luphert Chilwane Johannesburg — FIVE of the nine provinces experienced a complete shutdown of public hospitals yesterday as the doctors' strike for a 50% wage increase intensified. Doctors interviewed by telephone said public hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape, the Western Cape, Mpumalanga, Limpopo…
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U.S. Nonprofits Stressed but Surviving, Survey Finds
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Eighty percent of U.S. nonprofit organizations are experiencing fiscal stress, with close to 40 percent reporting that the stress was "severe" or "very severe," a new survey released by Johns Hopkins University finds. Based on a survey of 363 organizations as part of the Johns Hopkins Nonprofit…
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Xenophobia 'excluded from dialogue on racism'
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
Original Source University of the Witwatersrand is an Atlantic grantee. JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA -- Racism against black foreigners from African countries is often excluded from discourse about racism in South Africa, the First Apartheid Archive Conference heard on Thursday. "... in the studies of racism…
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Series of Reports Examine Nursing Workforce Solutions
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source The Center to Champion Nursing in America — a joint initiative of AARP and the AARP and Robert Wood Johnson foundations — has announced a series of six reports that examine evidence-based nursing solutions to challenges in healthcare access, quality, and cost. Published in the latest edition…
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Cisco Commits $4.5 Million to City Year to Curb High School Dropout Crisis
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source City Year is an Atlantic grantee. Cisco Systems and the Cisco Foundation have announced a pledge of $4.5 million in new funding to City Year's Whole School Whole Child program. The foundation will donate up to $1.5 million over the next three years to enhance the…
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