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Panel: Ga. checks should have been cleared by feds
Source: The Associated Press
by GREG BLUESTEIN Georgia should have sought U.S. Justice Department approval before implementing a new process of using Social Security numbers and driver's license data to check voters' immigration status, a three-judge federal panel ruled Monday. The 27-page ruling ordered Georgia election officials to…
Resource type: News
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Cuts could wreck poorer children's college chances
Source: Irish Independent
THE cutting of child benefit payments to those over the age of 18 could exclude children from lower-income families from third-level education and may even prevent others from completing secondary school, children's groups said yesterday. In his Budget, Brian Lenihan announced that benefit payments for…
Resource type: News
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Charities' gold mine: 'giving while living';
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Original Source by Meredith May Several times a year, Heidi Hess and James Rucker of San Francisco go online, PayPal style, and redirect their wealth to their favorite charities. They are tactical philanthropists - part of a growing group of socially conscious givers in the…
Resource type: News
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Letters to the Editor: Philanthropy and Racism
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Original Source To the Editor: Structural-racism training programs have helped hundreds of nonprofit organizations and community foundations, many of which are administered or operated by white people but primarily serve people of color, learn how to orient their theories of change from charity to empowerment…
Resource type: News
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Backing Northern Ireland’s communities: Why our grassroots campaigners are key to real change
Source: Atlantic Fellows
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.…
Resource type: News
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The Talk
Source: StoryCorps
One of the first times Nicholas Peart was stopped and frisked by the NYPD was on his 18th birthday. How can he explain the Stop and Frisk policy to his two younger brothers? Learn More The Center for Constituional Rights, a legal and educational organisation…
Resource type: Video
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To Keep Kids Out of Trouble—And Prison—Teach Them to Understand Their Emotions
Source: YES! Magazine
A restorative circle at MetWest High School in Oakland, Calif. Image by Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth and Oakland Unified School District.After teaching students to understand and talk through their conflicts, schools in Denver and Los Angeles have seen major reductions in disciplinary action.By Katherine…
Resource type: News
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Judge Steve Teske: A Perfect Storm, An Imperfect System Equals Injustice
Source: Juvenile Justice
We moved to Clayton County, GA in 1974. I was 14 years old. I had lived in nine different cities from California to New York, and back to our southern roots when my father was transferred to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
Resource type: News
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Seanad passes Partnership Bill
Source: The Irish Times
By Harry McGee. Legislation giving effect to civil partnerships passed all stages in the Seanad by 48 to four votes tonight.The first civil registrations for same-sex couples are likely to take place next January following overwhelming approval of the enabling legislation by the Oireachtas tonight.The…
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Change Comes to Washington: Will it Come to Philanthropy, Too?
Philanthropy should step up and seize the unprecedented opportunities created by the election of President Obama, said Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, in this speech at the Annual Meeting of Southern California Grantmakers in Los Angeles. When the terrific Sushma Raman –…
Resource type: Speech
