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Work past retirement age? Avoid pitfalls, penalties
Source: New York Newsday
Original Source BY MARK MILLER Tribune Media Services So you're getting ready to retire, but think you'll want to keep working in some fashion after you leave. Maybe you'll downshift to a part-time position with your former employer, or do some consulting. Congratulations on making…
Resource type: News
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Building Capacity for Maximum Impact
Gara LaMarche delivers the Keynote Address at the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York Symposium: Baruch College School of Public Affairs. It’s a little odd that I should be standing here this morning to share some thoughts about the role of evaluation in foundations…
Resource type: Speech
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Companies See Volunteering As a Benefit
Source: Associated Press Online
By Vinnee Tong NEW YORK--Colleen Bramhall's friends used to think she'd sold out by going to work for Accenture as a consultant after college. Now she says they're jealous. She's been to Sri Lanka and South Africa as a participant in Accenture Development Partnerships, a…
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Nonprofit Groups Lag in Recruiting Older Workers, Report Says
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Nonprofit groups lag significantly behind government agencies and businesses in their efforts to keep and recruit older workers, a new report concludes - and that could jeopardize their ability to fill a growing number of job vacancies. "Many nonprofit leaders, boards, and funders show little…
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More seniors decide to stay on the job
Source: Arizona East Valley Tribune
There was a time when Barbara Jacovitch says she was rejected as being too old for a job when she was in her 40s. Today, at age 69 the Chandler resident is working 32 hours a week as a customer service representative at the McKesson…
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CAP heralds an older, louder, stronger Northern Ireland
Source: Changing Ageing Partnership (CAP)
Contact: Joanne McKeirnan Help the Aged Northern Ireland Tel: 028 9072 8648Mobile: 07816 317 774Email: joanne.mckeirnan@hta.org.uk For immediate release: 3 October 2006 CAP heralds an older, louder, strongerNorthern Ireland Today (Tuesday 3 October 2006), four major Northern Ireland organisations join forces with the launch of…
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Grantmakers In Aging Announces First Grantees for new Hurricane Fund for the Elderly
Source: Grantmakers in Aging
For Immediate Release Contact: Carol A. Farquhar 888.435.3156 Grantmakers In Aging Announces First Grantees for new Hurricane Fund for the Elderly More than half a million dollars support older adult services for the long haul in the Gulf States Region July 28, 2006 --The Hurricane…
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What is Strategic Learning
Source: The Evaluation Exchange
and How Do You Develop an Organizational Culture that Encourages It? The Evaluation Exchange Volume XI, No. 2, Summer 2005 Issue Topic: Evaluation Methodology Ask the Expert John A. Healy, Director of Strategic Learning and Evaluation at The Atlantic Philanthropies, shares ways to position learning…
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Atlantic Philanthropies archives open with first batch of files
Source: Cornell Chronicle
[caption id="attachment_83040" align="aligncenter" width="546"] Phoebe Kowalewski, curator of The Atlantic Philanthropies archives, walks the aisles of the Library Annex, where the foundation’s physical archival materials are kept.[/caption] By Jose Beduya A treasure trove for scholars of philanthropy and social change is now available at Cornell…
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Welcome to the School of Resiliency
It’s a Thursday morning in mid- December and Betsye Steele, principal of Ralph J. Bunche High School, is holding her weekly new-student orientation session. She sits at the small table in her office talking with Antwon, the school’s newest student, and his grandfather. As they…
Resource type: Grantee Story