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The South African Institute for Advancement – Making a Stepping Stone into a Milestone
Source: Inyathelo
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…
Resource type: News
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Silent philanthropy finally comes out
Source: Business Day
By Katy Chance. A “ROLLICKING story of how, by stealth, an Irish American obsessed with secrecy built a business empire and revolutionised philanthropy”, is how The Economist describes the 2007 book, The Billionaire Who Wasn’t: how Chuck Feeney secretly made and gave away a fortune,…
Resource type: News
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What We Learned From Health Care
Source: The Huffington Post
By Gara LaMarche. In March, I was honored to watch President Obama's bill signing for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with a group of labor leaders and reform activists. Around me were advocates who had worked for months -- in some cases decades…
Resource type: News
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Too Close for Comfort? Obama and the Foundations
Foundations should take a stance of engaged and critical discomfort with government no matter who is in charge, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech at the Hudson Institute-Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center. I am always glad to take…
Resource type: Speech
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President Recognizes Atlantic Grantees, Promotes Encore Careers
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Today in an event in the East Room of the White House, President Obama highlighted innovative non-profit programmes that are making a difference in communities across the country. Programmes such asHarlem Children’s Zone (an Atlantic grantee), Teach for America (an Atlantic grantee), HopeLab, Genesys Works, and Bonnie CLAC (an Atlantic…
Resource type: News
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Child benefit to be taxed or means tested in January
Source: Irish Times
by CARL O'BRIEN and MARIE O'HALLORAN CHILD BENEFIT is likely to be either taxed or means-tested from the beginning of next year, creating savings of up to EUR400 million, Minister for Social Affairs Mary Hanafin has said. As it emerged that An Bdrd Snip Nua…
Resource type: News
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A boom in 'encore careers'
Source: boston.com
Original Source AmeriCorps, Civic Ventures, and City Year are Atlantic grantees. By Irene Sege When my parents retired, my father taught courses on linguistics and Kosovo and the philosophy of time at a volunteer-run institute for learning in retirement, and my mother picked up pocket…
Resource type: News
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It is a duty of yours, mine and the state's to end all prejudice
Source: Cape Argus (South Africa)
Treatment Action Campaign, the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project and the Triangle Project are Atlantic grantees. She loved soccer and represented South Africa in our women's soccer team, Banyana Banyana. On April 28, 2008, Eudy Simelane was raped, stabbed 25 times, robbed and murdered because…
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The second wave of giving will roll on
Source: Financial Times
Original Source By Sean Stannard-Stockton Between the dismal economy, crashing financial markets and the Madoff scandal it would be natural to assume that philanthropy was out for the count. But while these difficulties might take the wind out of the sector's sails for a while,…
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How Do We Keep Obama's Youth Mobilized?
Source: The American Prospect
Original Source Barack Obama's campaign politicized and organized more youth than any campaign has in recent history. The Prospect asked nine organizers, writers, and thinkers at the forefront of progressivism and youth activism to suggest one way of incorporating these youth into the progressive movement.…
Resource type: News