Results List
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Large Foundations Fall Short in Supporting Vulnerable Groups
Source: National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
Washington, D.C. - The nation's largest foundations only gave $1 out of $3 to benefit the economically and socially disadvantaged, according to the Criteria for Philanthropy at Its Best: Benchmarks to Assess and Enhance Grantmaker Impact, released yesterday by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.…
Resource type: News
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The fight for universal health care
Source: Politico
Original Source Richard Kirsch, national campaign manager for Health Care for America Now, takes nothing for granted. On the very day last week that President Barack Obama released his budget proposal, which includes a $634 billion reserve fund to overhaul the nation’s health care system, Kirsch…
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Citing Cost, States Consider End to Death Penalty
Source: The New York Times
by IAN URBINA ANNAPOLIS, Md. — When Gov. Martin O’Malley appeared before the Maryland Senate last week, he made an unconventional argument that is becoming increasingly popular in cash-strapped states: abolish the death penalty to cut costs. Mr. O’Malley, a Democrat and a Roman Catholic who has…
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Charity seeks new parents for major study
Source: Derry Journal
Original Source By Staff reporter The Lifestart Foundation – the umbrella group for Lifestart projects throughout the North West and Ireland – is looking to recruit local families onto a major new study which will help improve the support offered by the organisation to new parents. Lifestart…
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Op-Ed: Education Is All in Your Mind
Source: The New York Times
By RICHARD E. NISBETT Ann Arbor, Mich. AS Department of Education officials consider how best to spend billions from the economic stimulus plan, they would be wise to pay attention to which programs actually help children’s achievement — and keep in mind that sometimes very…
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Adelante Mujeres launches education project
Source: The Hillsboro Argus
Original Source FOREST GROVE - Adelante Mujeres is launching a new project, Champions for Early Childhood Education, focused on enhancing the services of Adelante Mujeres and partner project, PODER Family Literacy, by matching local baby boomers to low-income, Spanish-speaking immigrant children. The program was made…
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Fundraising halfway mark met
Source: Powell Tribune
Original Source Written by CJ Baker More than 60 years after its closure, the Heart Mountain Relocation Center is becoming harder to forget. Just below the grounds that once held nearly 11,000 Japanese-Americans sits the construction site of a new Interpretative Learning Center. The new…
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Helping the whole student
Source: Odessa American Online
Communities In Schools named top drop-prevention program Original Source BY ROY WAGGONER For years, ECISD has struggled with one of the highest dropout rates in Texas, but a local program is trying to change that fact - and the work seems to be paying off.…
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Many Foundations Have Lost Almost One-Third of Their Assets, Chronicle Study Finds
Source: Chronicle of Philanthropy
Original Source By Noelle Barton and Ian Wilhelm The steep decline in the stock market last year triggered an erosion of foundation wealth, with many grant makers losing nearly one-third of their assets, according to a new Chronicle survey of some of the nation’s largest philanthropies. For…
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Letter to the Editor: Service continues after MLK holiday
Source: USA Today
Original Source Judy Vredenburgh, President and CEO, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America; Philadelphia Americans who respond to President-elect Barack Obama's call to service on Martin Luther King Jr. Day will do so armed with patriotism, idealism and a thirst for change. As the celebrating…
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