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The story behind The Atlantic Philanthropies’ embrace of social justice is recounted in this speech by Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, at the Ford Foundation Convening on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace in February 2009 in Cairo, Egypt. It is bracing…

BLOEMFONTEIN, 25 February 2009 (PlusNews) - Last week, regulars at the HIV treatment clinic at Pelonomi hospital, in Bloemfontein, capital of South Africa's Free State Province, would have told you that the clinic has never been this quiet. Ever since the provincial government stopped initiating…

Gauteng needs at least R5-billion to turn around its health system, a local government minister said on Wednesday. Gauteng health minister Brian Hlongwa said many people did not realise the "scale and scope of the challenges" the department faced. "If you ask me a ballpark…

Plan would get kids much-needed attention, streamline bureaucracy, cut govt. waste http://www.forumforyouthinvestment.org/node/674 The Forum for Youth Investment is delighted that Congressman Yarmuth sent a letter to President Obama days after he took office calling for him to issue an executive order that would create a White House…

by ELLA SMOOK Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu has warned that South Africa remains perched on a powder keg of inequality as a result of the gap between rich and poor. Delivering the keynote |address at the first international Chief of Chaplains Conference taking place in…

Original Source Click here to listen to the interview. Summit TV speaks to Dr Victoria Pinkney-Atkinson about the award of millions of dollars by The Atlantic Philanthropies into South African nursing educational institutions that may change the face of nursing as we know it. Jane…

The first drop in program expenditures in a quarter-century bodes ill for states’ economic future, a new report warns. by Michele McNeil In a trend not seen since the deep recession of the early 1980s, state spending on government programs is declining this budget year—a…

Foundations can make a lasting impact by funding United Kingdom charities to carry out social campaigns, such as lobbying, letter writing and protesting, according to this report by New Philanthropy Capital. London, UK – New Philanthropy Capital (NPC), the charity think tank, has today published Critical masses, a…

by Claire Simpson MORE than 10 years after a bill of rights was first agreed in the Good Friday Agreement, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has presented its recommendations on the bill to the British government. The proposals are the culmination of a long…

The transition from apartheid to the new South Africa is rightfully viewed as one of the major advances in human history toward equality and democracy. But as I have written here before, many problems still exist: the South African government became an object of ridicule,…