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Original Source by Tamar KahnScience and Health Editor CAPE TOWN — In a clear break with the traditions of her predecessor, Health Minister Barbara Hogan has employed prominent AIDS activist Fatima Hassan as an adviser. Unlike Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, who had a frosty relationship with SA’s…

by PATSY McGARRY A NEWLY formed Muslim group has been set up to help ensure the continued rights of Muslim women to wear the hijab in Ireland. The Irish Hijab Campaign will lobby for legislation to protect and support those wearing the hijab. It hopes…

Bernard Osher, called the 'quiet giver,' donates large sums to education and the arts. Original Source Reporter Paul Van Slambrouck discusses the character of 'The Quiet Philanthropist.' From a distance, the philanthropic world can look much like the for-profit world. The metrics that seem to…

Original Source By Karl Stampfl, Bonnie Miller Rubin and Kristen Kridel, Tribune reporters For her strong school attendance record, Ashley Martinez won a sparkling new Dodge Caliber-a sporty hatchback that starts at about $15,000. Unfortunately, she needs to wait four years to drive her prize.…

The Google IPO event of the nonprofit world Original Source By Georgia Levenson Keohane If any good comes out of the misguided farm bill passed last month, it will be the recognition that Americans are hungry. Amidst the egregious agricultural subsidies, the bill earmarks billions…

By Lauren Foster When Mark Lachs, an internist who specialises in the care of the elderly, looks into the not-so-distant future, he sees millions of retirees and not enough doctors. The baby boomers are moving through the belly of the beast and are coming out…

Teach for America and Eli Lilly and Company have announced the launch of a program to support new teachers working in low-income communities in Indianapolis. Teach for America expanded to Indianapolis this fall, bringing in forty-eight young teachers to work in Indianapolis Public Schools. The program…

This may be the Atlantic Currents column most in keeping with the title of this series, because it starts with a boat on the Atlantic Ocean. In Bermuda, to be exact -- a small country of only 65,000 people, but one very important to Atlantic…

The Philadelphia Foundation was one of the last places Nancy Burd thought she would work. As head of the Philadelphia office of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, a foundation grantee, she knew firsthand that it did not have a good reputation. But during the interview process…

The Atlantic Philanthropies’ approach to funding in ageing, including its emphasis on advocacy, is outlined in this speech by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Annual Meeting of Grantmakers in Aging in San Diego, California in November 2007. When I was asked a…