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It’s All Downhill From 38: Why Ageing Is Not Just for the Old
Source: The Irish Times
A new centre for successful ageing aims to address the challenges we all face.
Resource type: News
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Shattered Families
As undocumented immigrant parents are detained and deported, an increasing number of children and youth are stuck in the foster care system, with little hope of reuniting with their mothers and fathers. It's an injustice that hurts everyone. Read and share the groundbreaking report from…
Resource type: Video
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UCT’s Law, Race and Gender Unit Takes on the Controversial Traditional Courts Bill
University of Cape Town's Law, Race and Gender Unit (LRG), an Atlantic grantee, is working with the Legal Resources Centre and local community-based organisations to ensure that people living in South African rural villages will have an opportunity to speak out against the proposed passage…
Resource type: Video
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Tough Immigration Laws: Tough on Children
Source: The Huffington Post
SOURCE: Center for American ProgressMarian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund, wrote a piece for The Huffington Post arguing against the harshness of Alabama's anti-immigration law HB56. "Now children born in the USA, American citizens, are living in fear" of family separation, said…
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Drop the I-Word. No Human Being is Illegal
Source: Colorlines
Drop the I-Word is a public education campaign by grantee Applied Research Center and powered by immigrants and diverse communities across the country that value human dignity and are working to eradicate the dehumanising slur "illegals" from everyday use and public discourse. The i-word opens…
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Atlantic Grantees Working for Human Rights
International Human Rights Day on 10 December marks the 63rd year of global recognition of our basic human equality and the continuous struggle to gain basic human rights for all individuals. Reconciliation & Human Rights made up the largest portion of Atlantic's 2010 grantmaking programmes — funding…
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Joint Vision for a Healthy Future
Source: The Courier-Mail
By Janelle Miles If you build it, they will come. Queensland's Translational Research Institute is still under construction but it's already attracting plenty of interest from leading US medical researchers. US philanthropist Chuck Feeney, who provided millions of dollars towards the project, toured the Brisbane…
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Obama risks losing liberals with talk of cutting budget
Source: The Washington Post
By Zachary A. Goldfarb and Peter WallstenPresident Obama faces a growing rebellion on the left as he courts independent voters and Republicans with his vision for reducing the nation’s debt by cutting government spending and restraining the costs of federal health insurance programs.Key liberal groups,…
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US organisation improves minority women’s health
Source: VOV News
(VOV) - The US Atlantic Philanthropies organisation has allocated US$2 million for improving health for ethnic minority women and children in Vietnam’s provinces of Dien Bien, Dak Lak and Yen Bai.The sum will be channeled to the project, called “Improving health for ethnic minority mothers…
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Richard Boone and the Field Foundation: Beacons of Leadership for Social Justice Philanthropy
Source: Gara LaMarche
On a mellow California afternoon earlier this month, I drove a few hours up the coast from Los Angeles, where I’d been on a panel at the annual meeting of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, to spend some time with one of the most influential…
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