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Human Investment Proves Capital Idea
by James McCullough A DESIRE to invest in human capital and help people prompted Wotif.com co-founder Andrew Brice to start giving away millions of dollars. Media-shy Mr Brice yesterday revealed how he had joined a growing number of multimillionaire philanthropists giving away millions to credible…
Author: The Courier-Mail
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Scanning the Skyline: Lessons From 30 Years of Capital Grantmaking
Buildings have a special allure for philanthropy—their mass, their unambiguous reality, their durability, their promise of sheltering great transformative enterprise—that few other achievements can match. They also conjure a cloud of distinctive risks: the possibility of inadequate maintenance, financial drain, premature obsolescence, the danger that…
Author: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
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Panel releases final report on capital punishment
by BRIAN WITTE A Maryland commission on Friday formally recommended repealing capital punishment, issuing a report death penalty opponents hope will add momentum to legislative efforts to abolish executions. But a minority report signed by eight of the commission’s 23 members argued that the law…
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Md. Panel Hears Views On Death Penalty; Urban Institute Study Says Capital Cases Cost Much More
by John Wagner The cost associated with prosecuting a case in Maryland in which the death penalty is imposed is on average $1.9 million more than the cost of a similar case in which capital punishment is not sought, a researcher told a state commission…
Author: The Washington Post
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Brick-by-Brick – Investing in Capital Projects for Social Change
The business of making social change often has to start from the ground up. Sometimes literally! Since its inception, The Atlantic Philanthropies has invested over $1.5 billion in a number of capital projects to build the infrastructure that enables health to be advanced, children and…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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New Mexico governor abolishes capital punishment
Original Source By DEBORAH BAKER SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Gov. Bill Richardson, who has supported capital punishment, signed legislation to repeal New Mexico’s death penalty, calling it the “most difficult decision in my political life.” The new law replaces lethal injection with a sentence…
Author: Associated Press
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Report May Put Final Nail in Death Penalty
by DAN RODRICKS In the report from the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment, the people of this state and their elected representatives have all the evidence needed to abolish the death penalty, once and for all, in the next session of the General Assembly. But…
Author: The Baltimore Sun
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The Perfect Storm
The intensifying economic crisis slams the world of nonprofit organizations. Original Source By Eyal Press In the days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, sat at his desk in Lower Manhattan and reached out to people…
Author: The Nation
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CSI and social justice: towards partnership with northern donors?
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…
Author: Published in The CSI Handbook, 10th edition, published by Trialogue, 2007
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Repeal of Death Penalty Urged; MD. Panel Votes to End Executions
by Gadi Dechter and Laura Smitherman A state commission reviewing capital punishment recommended last night an end to executions in Maryland, prompting hope among death penalty opponents that the General Assembly could soon abolish the 30-year practice. The Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment voted 13-7…
Author: The Baltimore Sun