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Aging and Community: ASA Presents National Forum on Civic Engagement
Source: American Society on Aging
Original Source The 2009 ASA-NCOA Aging in America Conference devoted a full day on March 16th to a National Forum on Civic Engagement, which presented best practices in civic engagement inspired by the 2006-2007 winter issue of ASA’s journalGenerations, Civic Engagement in Later Life. A…
Resource type: News
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Older volunteers do good for schools and for their own health, studies find
Source: The Baltimore Sun
Original Source Experience Corps is an Atlantic grantee.By Liz Bowie Three days each week, Frances Gill immerses herself in a third-grade classroom in West Baltimore, usually plopping down next to a small figure working diligently to do a math problem or write a sentence. For 15…
Resource type: News
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Children's Rights Alliance Bi-Annual Symposium 2009: 'Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?'
Source: Children's Rights Alliance
Children's Rights Alliance is an Atlantic grantee. On 2 April, over 100 delegates descended on Dublin Castle to attend the Children's Rights Alliance's first biennial symposium, where they pledged to make Ireland one of the best places in the world to be a child. Entitled…
Resource type: News
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An Integrated Approach to Regeneration in Rialto, Dublin
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
March 2009 -- The Dublin inner city area of Rialto has a population of 6,000. Within Rialto, the public housing estates of Fatima Mansions and Dolphin House are among the most disadvantaged in Ireland – experiencing high rates of early school leaving, and family poverty. But…
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The Increasing Child Poverty Rate and Its Impact on Children
Source: Child Trends
The number of United States children living in poverty increased in 2007 - continuing an upward trend dating back to 2000, according to this report by Child Trends, which includes recommendations for policy-makers who seek to reduce the rate of child poverty. Child Trends is an Atlantic…
Resource type: Research Report
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Release of Major National Research Showing Experience Corps Produces Big Gains in Student Learning
Source: Experience Corps
Read the full report: http://csd.wustl.edu/Publications/Documents/RP09-01.pdf WASHINGTON, DC -- Two years ago, Washington University researchers launched a major national study to answer this question: Do Experience Corps members have an impact on the reading ability of the children they tutor? Very few nonprofits are fortunate enough…
Resource type: News
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Forum Mourns Tragedy at Immigrant Center in Binghamton, New York
Source: National Immigration Forum
The National Immigration Forum is an Atlantic grantee. Washington, DC The following is a statement by Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum, a non-Partisan pro-immigrant advocacy organization based in Washington. What happened in Binghamton is a horrific tragedy. It appears that an…
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Davies to join UQ population health
Source: The Australian
THE former deputy secretary of the Federal government's department of health and ageing, Philip Davies, will join the University of Queensland's school of population health as professor of health systems and policy. The Head of UQ's School of Population Health, Professor Alan Lopez, said that Professor…
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Skills to Learn to Restart Earnings
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By JOHN LELAND JUSTIN WILLIAMS worked as an engineer at Honeywell International for 31 years, and when he retired last April, he knew he could not afford to stop working. His home in suburban Maryland, on which he had spent his 401(k) savings,…
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Two Atlantic Grantees Featured on BBC's The One Show
Source: BBC's The One Show
Original Source This video clip features the work of two of Atlantic's Reconciliation and Human Rights grantees in Northern Ireland – the Suffolk Lenadoon Interface Group (SLIG) and the Integrated Education Fund. The piece was aired across the UK on the BBC’s evening flagship programme,…
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