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Hall’s Ireland Vietnam Blood-Borne Virus Initiative Provides a Model for the Global Virus Network
Source: Global Virus Network
Many organisations that look to the future of their professions have reached a similar conclusion: today and in the future, practitioners need to collaborate, learn from eachother, and train the next generation to expand on their work.This conclusion is certainly true in the field of…
Resource type: News
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Job Posting: Executive Director, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)
Source: Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group
Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) is an Atlantic grantee through the Population Health programme. Position DescriptionSearch for the Executive Director Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) Oakland, CAMedical Education Cooperation with Cuba (“MEDICC”), a highly regarded non-profit organization working to enhance cooperation among the US, Cuban and global…
Resource type: News
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South Tipperary Dementia Project Launched
Source: Genio
Launch of the "5 Steps to Living Well with Dementia" project in South TipperarySouth Tipperary has been selected as the site for an innovative pilot project to develop and test new service models aiming to divert significant numbers of people with dementia from institutional care.…
Resource type: News
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A bridge across the River Foyle
Source: TES Connect
By Meabh RitchieReligious feeling runs high on the two sides of Derry, but Northern Ireland’s Sharing Education Programme sees Catholic and Protestant pupils working together, reports Meabh Ritchie It may be early summer, but sheets of rain are slicing the landscape in two and colliding…
Resource type: News
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CURB calls for more timely statistics on Island’s social problems
Source: The Royal Gazette
By Sam StrangewaysAn anti-racism group wants to see better statistics collected and reported in Bermuda to help tackle the Island’s ills.Lynne Winfield, president of Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda (CURB), says current, concrete information on poverty, crime, education, unemployment and earnings is badly needed.In an…
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Public Views on Shared Education in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is a deeply divided society and the level of separation between Protestant and Catholic communities is reflected in its education system. Less than 6% of the school-aged population is educated together. The system of education in Northern Ireland is undergoing significant administrative and…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Keeping Memory Alive
Source: Gara LaMarche
It wasn’t easy ten years ago when 19 people from diverse backgrounds in Northern Ireland came together to talk about setting up the Healing Through Remembering (HTR) Project. Intense feelings and bitter memories of the conflict made it sometimes hard to be in the same…
Resource type: News
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Brick-by-Brick – Investing in Capital Projects for Social Change
Source: Gara LaMarche
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…
Resource type: News
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Integrating Youth Services
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
By Sam Scott. Al and Marshae Rivera keep their home stocked with candy—all the better to stop their kids from venturing out to buy some themselves. No one knows better than they do that in East Oakland, Calif., even short trips can turn violent. Their…
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Project involving Thai Nguyen University, Vietnam
Source: Simmons GSLIS
The Thai Nguyen University Learning Resource Center was awarded the 2009 Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries program grant from the Elsevier Foundation. Only six libraries received the grant. As described on the Elsevier website, Supporting Research Communities in Writing, Publishing and Sharing their Works in…
Resource type: News