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By Bob HerbertIf there’s a better government program than Social Security, I’d like to know what it is.It has gone a long way toward eliminating poverty among the elderly. Great numbers of them used to live and die in ghastly, Dickensian conditions of extreme want.…

This report aims to increase understanding of the gaps and overlaps in services being provided to address social issues in Bermuda. It is part of the Bermuda Civil Society Project (BCSP), an independent research and data analysis initiative designed to clarify how nonprofit agencies and other…

Elderly people in Northern Ireland are facing high levels of anxiety ahead of the Spending Review, a survey has found. The Centre for Ageing Research and Development has found considerable fear amongst the pensioners over reduced incomes, higher taxes and cuts in vital services. It…

Issued by: Quo Vadis Communications Attention: News Editors For immediate release: MEDIA STATEMENT BY INYATHELO - THE SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCEMENT - MAKING A STEPPING STONE INTO A MILESTONEA conference that will be held in Cape Town next month will bring together foreign and…

We must future-proof our economy with knowledge and innovation: THIS month Brisbane sends a powerful global message that it is more than just one of Australia's most liveable cities and among the world's top 50 cities. Construction begins on the Translational Research Institute, a medical…

CHRIS RAUBERThe Regents of the University of California voted Thursday to approve construction of a new $1.52 billion women’s, children’s, and cancer specialty hospital at UC San Francisco’s burgeoning Mission Bay campus. The Regents unanimously approved going ahead with the 289-bed hospital in their Sept. 16 board meeting at…

Pat Carey T.D., Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, today (Monday, 21st June 2010) launched a new Government initiative to support philanthropy in Ireland. The key elements of the 5 point plan - which aim to create an enabling environment for planned giving -…

By Caroline Preston.  Nonprofit groups say it takes them 25 to 30 hours to apply for a grant. Yet most of the grants being awarded are probably $15,000 or less.  That's much of what's wrong with philanthropy today, Bill Somerville, founder of Philanthropic Ventures Foundation,…

Our immigration system is badly broken. Although our borders have become far more secure in recent years, too many people seeking illegal entry get through. We have no way to track whether the millions who enter the United States on valid visas each year leave…

By Kirk Johnson. Lingle, Wyo. — Norma Clark, 80, slipped on the ice out by the horse corral one afternoon and broke her hip in four places. Alone, it took her three hours to drag herself the 40 yards back to the house through snow…