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Free speech advocate 'in hot seat'
Source: Business Day
By Wilson Johwa. No sooner had she joined the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI), than Ayesha Kajee was thrust into the middle of the tussle over press freedom. Ms Kajee took over as director of the FXI on July 1, coming from the University of…
Resource type: News
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What Progressives Did Right to Win Healthcare
Source: The Nation
By Richard Kirsch. One year after the Tea Party insurgency disrupted Democratic Congressional town hall meetings, it’s worth asking how healthcare reform survived. By the beginning of 2010, Scott Brown had taken Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, reform proponents had lost the national narrative and voters…
Resource type: News
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Where the Billions Will Go
Source: The Daily Beast
By Tom Watson. The pledge by Warren Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates, and other billionaires to give away large parts of their fortunes leaves a question: Where will the money go?There's a new solicitor general in this country and his name is Warren Buffett. Who…
Resource type: News
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Study Finds Young Hispanics Face Obstacles to Integration
Source: The New York Times
By Sam Roberts. A snapshot of Hispanic youngsters — the fastest-growing group in the United States by age and ethnicity — concludes that the obstacles and inequalities they face today “may hinder the broader integration of Latinos into U.S. society if left unattended.” If those…
Resource type: News
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New Campaign Aims to Focus Health Reform Implementation On Improving, Coordinating Care for Vulnerable Older Adults
Source: Campaign for Better Care
Survey Finds Older Adults Suffering Due to Poor Coordination, Communication WASHINGTON, DC — April 8, 2010 — To ensure health reform works for those with the most at stake, the National Partnership for Women & Families, Community Catalyst and the National Health Law Program (NHeLP)…
Resource type: News
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The Key Role of Advocacy Funding in the U.S. Health Reform Debate
The reasons why The Atlantic Philanthropies made what may be the largest U.S. advocacy grant ever in order to support health reform are outlined by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Grantmakers in Health conference in Orlando, Florida. Occasionally it is better not…
Resource type: Speech
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'Giving while living' alters inheritances
Source: USA Today
AARP and the Foundation Center are Atlantic grantees. By Mindy Fetterman You used to have to wait for a loved one to die before you found out how much you were going to inherit — if you were going to inherit at all. No more.…
Resource type: News
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Agent Orange: Congenital deformities plague Vietnam; U.S. slow to help
Source: Chicago Tribune
By Jason Grotto. DONG NAI PROVINCE, Vietnam. U.S., Vietnam split over whether defoliants used in war are to blame Part 3 of a Tribune investigation finds that the role of defoliants in Vietnam's high rate of birth defects remains a contentious question decades after U.S.…
Resource type: News
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CSI and social justice: towards partnership with northern donors?
Source: Published in The CSI Handbook, 10th edition, published by Trialogue, 2007
South African corporates have traditionally shied away from investment in human rights and social justice programmes. In this feature article, Colleen du Toit and Gerald Kraak from the Atlantic Philanthropies propose co-operation between northern donors and local companies to enhance the impact of mutual investments…
Resource type: News
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South Africa Journal: Engaged Activism Bends the Arc Toward Hope
Source: Gara LaMarche
I returned this weekend from an extended visit to South Africa, where Atlantic has long been engaged in supporting organisations and leaders working on human rights, reconciliation and health issues. Ordinarily in a column, I try to drill down on some particular aspect of our…
Resource type: News