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Later Life Is Ripe for Reinvention, Nonprofit Leader Asserts in New Book
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Marc Freedman has emerged over the past decade as the nonprofit world's most prominent crusader for a movement to reinvent retirement. In his new book, Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life, Mr. Freedman goes a step further: He envisions a…
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US NGOs Fund Nearly $1.5Mln for Health Sector in Central Vietnam
Source: Vietnam News Brief Service
Health: US NGOs Fund Nearly $1.5Mln for Health Sector in Central Vietnam Vietnam News Brief Service (c) 2006 Toan Viet Limited Company. All rights reserved. The US non-governmental organizations of East Meets West and Atlantic Philanthropies have recently funded nearly $1.5 million for eye care…
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The Perfect Storm
Source: The Nation
The intensifying economic crisis slams the world of nonprofit organizations. Original Source By Eyal Press In the days between Christmas and New Year's Eve, Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, sat at his desk in Lower Manhattan and reached out to people…
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SOUTH AFRICA: Lives lost as state coffers run dry
Source: Plus News
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…
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Treatment of HIV patients resumes in Free State
Source: The Star
by Anso Thom and Lungi Langa Most hospital and clinics in the Free State have still not started treating the more than 15 000 people waiting for their antiretroviral drugs, but the national Department of Health has given the assurance that drugs will now start…
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Plan to integrate key public services for poorer families
Source: Irish Examiner
by Niall Murray EDUCATION, health and welfare services may be more closely linked to provide an integrated service for poorer families under plans being considered by Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe. However, he has ruled out any merging of health and education agencies, even though the…
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Chuck Feeney, Cornell’s ‘third founder,’ dies at 92
Source: Cornell Chronicle
Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56, founding chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies and Cornell University’s most generous donor, died Oct. 9 in San Francisco. He was 92. Feeney, who quietly devoted his fortune to worldwide causes for decades, invested nearly $1 billion in Cornell through the…
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Community Mourn the Loss of Founder Charles F. Feeney
October 9, 2023 – San Francisco, CA – Charles Francis “Chuck” Feeney, an Irish American businessman and philanthropist who devoted his entire personal fortune to global philanthropy in his lifetime, died peacefully on October 9 in San Francisco. He was 92. Chuck Feeney’s philanthropic organizations,…
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The Ethical Argument for Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination of Health Workers
Source: The Atlantic Fellows
Dr Tharani Loganathan, Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in Southeast Asia Recently, an unvaccinated employee set off a COVID-19 outbreak in a nursing home in Kentucky, USA with dozens of residents infected and several deaths. COVID-19 outbreaks in hospitals in Malaysia have brought home with…
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Announces Full Cohort of Atlantic Fellows
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
The first global cohort of Atlantic Fellows includes activists, artists, journalists, health professionals and policymakers collaborating across the globe to build a healthier, fairer future.
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