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Civic Ventures is an Atlantic grantee. Skoll Foundation Invests in Leading Social Entrepreneurs Foundation commits total of $14,165,000 in new funding Civic Ventures is latest recipient of Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship Ashoka and ShoreCap II also receive Skoll investments PALO ALTO, Calif. Sept. 1,…

Original Source Save the Children, University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand, University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Pretoria, and University of the Western Cape are Atlantic grantees. Funding for this publication was provided by Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children USA through a grant from…

This week Gerald Kraak, Programme Executive with Atlantic’s Reconciliation & Human Rights Programme and a veteran South African human rights advocate based in our Johannesburg office, shares his thoughts on the first 100 days of President Zuma’s administration.   While international coverage of the April…

Original Source These developments are a direct result of the work of Atlantic's grantee, the National Peace Accord Trust who have worked together with the Umkhonto We Sizwe Veterans Association to win the support of the Zuma administration for veterans needs. RAYMOND Fihla steps into Ray’s Butchery,…

Original Source by DONNA BRYSON PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA -- Some of the shack dwellers of Jeffsville recently had an idea: Why not stage a march to demand government housing some had been awaiting for 18 years? Community leader Ernest Tshavhuyo, though, feared an angry march…

by ANN FARMER Jose was 14 when he left his home in Oaxaca, Mexico, and paid a smuggler $1,200 to sneak him across the border. He made it to Phoenix and started on a long and familiar odyssey as he scratched out a living, first…

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…

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…

by Dan Keenan Officials at two Stormont departments are working on specific policy proposals to meet the needs of immigrant communities in Northern Ireland following recent racist attacks. The Assembly was also warned that the rate of racist incidents was due to "rocket". Initiatives from…

Harlem Children’s Zone and Teach for America are Atlantic grantees, and Bonnie CLAC is an Atlantic grantee via the Purpose Prize. by Foon Rhee President Obama this afternoon praised a New Hampshire nonprofit that helps poor people buy fuel-efficient reliable cars in a White House event designed to highlight innovative programs…