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Confronting Systemic Inequity in Education: High Impact Strategies for Philanthropy
Source: National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
This report looks at how philanthropy can be more effective at helping to reform and improve our nation’s school systems. Every year, foundations provide billions in grants for education. Yet, our education system is in crisis: American schoolchildren – especially those from vulnerable communities - remain trapped in…
Resource type: Research Report
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Concrete support for young people needed, says entrepreneur
Source: The Irish Times
by LORNA SIGGINSIRELAND COULD become home to the next Google, Facebook or Nokia if it stopped paying “lip service” to a younger generation by offering concrete support, the founder of a national social media agency has said.SpunOut.ie director Ruairí McKiernan said his company planned to…
Resource type: News
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Number of HIV/AIDS cases in sub-Saharan Africa expected to greatly outpace resources
Source: National Academy of Sciences
WASHINGTON — The number of people infected with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to far outstrip available resources for treatment by the end of the decade, forcing African nations to make difficult choices about how to allocate inadequate supplies of lifesaving antiretroviral therapy (ART),…
Resource type: News
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Better future for mothers, babies
Source: BuaNews
Compiled by the Government Communication and Information SystemPretoria - A project which combines a wide range of technologies is expected to improve maternal and newborn health.The Maternal and Newborn Health Technology Initiative (MNTI) focuses mainly on introducing lifesaving technologies, standardising maternal and newborn health practices…
Resource type: News
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10 Americans Over 60 Win The Purpose Prize for Making an Extraordinary Impact in their Encore Careers
Source: Civic Ventures
News ReleaseFrom Fighting U.S. Foreclosures to Rebuilding Afghanistan, 10 Social Innovators Receive $750,000 Total for Combining Passion and Experience for Social Good Civic Ventures today announced the 2010 winners of its Purpose Prize. Five $100,000 and five $50,000 prizes will go to social entrepreneurs over 60…
Resource type: News
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Influencing Policy at All Levels of Government
Source: Insight Magazine
By Gara LaMarcheNot too many years ago, it was a hard sell to convince most foundations that involvement in public policy, and particularly the support of advocacy, was an essential element of carrying out their philanthropic mission, whatever that happened to be. Many had concerns…
Resource type: News
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Defend the State Pension, Older & Bolder Campaign
Older & Bolder Premiers Online Campaign Film Made By Award-Winning Director to Help Defend The State Pension 21 October 2010 Alliance to undertake nationwide lobby and petition campaign over coming weeks Government should focus on reforming tax reliefs rather than further cutting the State Pension…
Resource type: Video
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Declaration of the Civil Society Conference held on 27-28 October 2010, Boksburg, South Africa
Source: The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
The Civil Society Conference held on 27-28 October 2010 was a historic turning point in the history of South Africa. Over 300 delegates from 56 mass-based civil society organisations, with a combined membership of millions of South Africans, came together to rebuild a strong, mass…
Resource type: News
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Moyers, LaMarche, Bhargava: Towards Progressive Reform
Bill Moyers Interviews Gara LaMarche and Deepak Bhargava: Working Towards Progressive Reform and Social Justice 19 October 2010 Nearly twenty-one months after the inauguration of Barack Obama, the social justice movement - and its funders - are at a crossroads. Is there still momentum for progressive reform, and…
Resource type: Video
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The Road Ahead for Progressives: Back to Basics
Source: The Nation
by Gara LaMarche and Deepak BhargavaTwenty-one months after Barack Obama was inaugurated on a wave of hope for change in America's politics and policies, at least two important and seemingly contradictory things can be said.First, there has been a series of significant progressive reforms: an economic stimulus bill…
Resource type: News