Results List
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Charitable Relations
Source: The American Prospect
Philanthropy adapts to the Obama era. Original Source by Lauren Foster Last November, two weeks after Barack Obama was elected president, Gara LaMarche took to the podium at the annual meeting of Southern California Grantmakers. The president and chief executive of The Atlantic Philanthropies was…
Resource type: News
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Health sector moves to make hospitals safe from disasters
Source: Vietnamese News Agency (VNA)
The Health Ministry, in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO), launched a campaign, entitled Save lives, make hospitals safe in emergencies, on April 7 in response to the World Health Day. Every year, Vietnam is regularly hit by floods and storms, especially during the…
Resource type: News
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$125 million donation for new UCSF hospital
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle
Original Source by Victoria Colliver, Chronicle Staff Writer UCSF Medical Center has received a $125 million donation, among the largest in its history, to help build a planned $1.68 billion hospital to provide services to women, children and cancer patients near its Mission Bay biomedical complex,…
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Transgender People Tell Their Stories
Source: Mamba Online
A groundbreaking DVD of short digital stories created by transgender and gender non-conforming people in South Africa will be released this weekend. The TRANSformations DVD explores the lives and experiences of the participants and their resilience in the face of considerable adversity. The project is a collaboration…
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Rules favour informalisation, corruption
Source: Cape Times (South Africa)
by CHRISTINA TAYLOR SOUTH AFRICA can gain from offering more resources and legitimacy to immigrants, academics suggest, but the country's citizens meanwhile suffer from restrictions on the rights of foreign nationals. According to a draft submission by the Forced Migration Studies Programme at Wits University to the…
Resource type: News
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Philanthropic Sector Needs Robust Information Marketplace, Report Argues
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source Participants in the philanthropic world — from foundations and wealthy donors to the nonprofits that seek their support — should do more to create a robust marketplace of information about charitable activity if they hope to increase their social impact, a new report…
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Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program Now Accepting Applications
Source: Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program
Dear Colleague, I am pleased to announce the 2nd year of the Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program, a unique professional fellowship opportunity. Supported by The Atlantic Philanthropies and directed by Harold Alan Pincus, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University (in collaboration with the…
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In Tough Times, It's Time to Step Up
Source: International Business Times
Susan Carey Dempsey.When Ted Turner made an historic announcement of a billion dollar pledge to the United Nations a decade ago, he wished out loud that lists of most generous donors would become as competitive as lists of the World's Richest. While there's some understandable…
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Strategies for Implementing School-Based Services
Source: Child Trends
Top practitioners and policymakers from New Mexico share what they learned in implementing school-based health services and extended learning opportunities in this case study prepared by Child Trends. Elev8 New Mexico is an initiative of the Children & Youth Programme of The Atlantic Philanthropies, and…
Resource type: Research Report
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Starting Over, With a Second Career Goal of Changing Society
By Steve Lohr Harvard kicked off a small but ambitious experiment this week that it hopes will become a new “third stage” of university education. For the student-fellows in the program, most in their 50s and early 60s, the goal is a second-act career in…
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