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The Forced Migration Studies Programme at the University of Witswatersrand is an Atlantic grantee. by COURTNEY BROOKS JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Godfrey Smith left his native Malawi last year to hunt for a job in Johannesburg, certain that the Soccer World Cup would bring a…

Coalition of groups band together in battle to overhaul health care Original Source Health Care for America Now, Families USA, the American Cancer Society and AARP are Atlantic grantees. By Suzanne Perry As members of Congress fan out across the country during their August recess,…

Philanthropy adapts to the Obama era. Original Source by Lauren Foster Last November, two weeks after Barack Obama was elected president, Gara LaMarche took to the podium at the annual meeting of Southern California Grantmakers. The president and chief executive of The Atlantic Philanthropies was…

Original Source By Wagner Blogger With the U.S. in the throes of a devastating economic crisis and donation dollars more scarce than ever, should foundations divert their funding efforts to direct-service programs which assist casualties of this devastating recession -- or should they instead continue…

by Karin Brulliard and Colum Lynch Kumi Naidoo joined the struggle against apartheid as a teenager, signing up with a movement that fought for human rights, delivered democracy to South Africa and now governs the country. Last week, he began a hunger strike to pressure…

By RACHEL BECK NEW YORK (AP) - Nonprofits that are struggling because their donors lost money with Bernard Madoff are getting a bailout -- but not from the government. Richer foundations are stepping in to help. Human Rights Watch, The Center for Constitutional Rights and others are…

View the ad video here Campaign Media Analysis Group (CMAG), a division of TNS Media Intelligence, has chosen the most recent HCAN ad as their "Ad of the Week" on their political ad blog for the week of 24 November, 2008. This ad is currently…

BOOK OF THE DAY: The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder 
Bloomsbury 960pp, £25 reviewed by CONOR O'CLERY THIS IS the second major biography of Warren Buffett, whose net worth was recently estimated at US$62 billion, but the first which…

by JASON MICHAEL, OLIVIA KELLY and EITHNE DONNELLAN The Minister for Health today published the long-awaited Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008 amid criticism from Opposition parties and Age Action. The Bill published by Mary Harney underpins the fair deal nursing home funding scheme and…

The PM gave permissions on August 26 to the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Vietnam Lawyers' Association to take over foreign-funded projects separately. The MoH will adopt the 24-month Project "Capacity increasing in research and training activities of the Injury Prevention and Policy Research…