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By Lori MontgomeryThe chairmen of President Obama's bipartisan deficit commission on Wednesday offered an aggressive plan to rebalance the federal budget by curbing increases in Social Security benefits, slashing spending at the Pentagon and other agencies, and wiping out more than $100 billion a year in…

This publication explores the experiences of a growing number of funders around the world that are committed to supporting advocacy as a strategy to advance social change. We are starting with this topic because funding advocacy too often is the philanthropic road not taken, yet…

Initiative Draws Attention to 'Immense Untapped Resource' - Americans in the Second Half of Life Eager to Make Social Contribution - For Immediate Release - December 1, 2005 Contact: Anne Purdy (415) 901-0111 Fenton Communications apurdy@fenton.com Stefanie Weiss (202) 478-6151 sweiss@experiencecorps.orgFive Over 60 Will Win…

“Real social change has to be built from the ground up through the participation of millions of people speaking in their own voices,” says Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director of the 40-year-old Center for Community Change (CCC). To ensure that policymakers hear the voices of low-income…

Original Source The latest research highlighting older peoples' fear of anti-social behaviour will be presented today (Thursday 29 May) by the Changing Ageing Partnership (CAP) at the Institute of Governance, Queen's University Belfast. Carried out by Queen's PhD student Brendan Sturgeon, the ongoing research examines…

Original Source by Gara LaMarche Speaking to tens of thousands of his supporters in Chicago's Grant Park, President-elect Barack Obama said his smashing victory was not about him but about "you." In his effort to unify, he meant all of America, but he also was…

Nicole Browne, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity Northern Ireland is on the edge of the United Kingdom in more ways than one. Brexit has led to the contested Irish Sea Border which puts a trade barrier between Great Britain and these six counties.…

NUI GALWAY and Atlantic Philanthropies are to open a €10 million lifecycle institute which will focus on research into key social policy areas. Plans for the multidisciplinary institute are due to be announced today, as part of the university’s €140 million strategic development programme. Atlantic…

Time was, not too long ago, that sectarian violence ruled Belfast, but in recent years the bombs have largely fallen silent. The more rare outbursts of violence – such as the March killings of two British soldiers ambushed during a pizza delivery – have been…

This month Harriett and I attended the Atlantic Philanthropies’ Laying Foundations for Change panel, hosted by Koda Capital. Peter Hoj and Peter Coaldrake, Vice Chancellors of UQ and QUT respectively, Allan English, the 2014 Philanthropy Leader of the Year, and Chris Oechsli, the President and CEO of Atlantic…