Results List
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World Alzheimer's Day
Source: Ulster Tatler
Today (21st September 2010) is 'World Alzheimer's Day', a day when people around the globe raise awareness of Alzheimer's and related dementias.Marking the importance of this day, Jim Wells MLA and Chair of the Stormont Health Committee got on board the Fold Brain Bus -…
Resource type: News
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SpunOut.ie Academy of Activism 2010 – Participants’ Thoughts
Quick round up of the SpunOut.ie Academy of Activism's attendants and their thoughts on Ireland today and why they believe that becoming active in society is important. For more information, click here >>
Resource type: Video
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World's greatest Irishman honoured
Source: The Irish Daily Star
Tributes to billionaire who's giving away bis fortune THE MUSEUM of Natural History in New York was a splendid setting for an extraordinary event on Tuesday night as more than 1,000 people paid tribute to one of the most remarkable human beings on the planet.…
Resource type: News
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“A Spend-out Approach to Philanthropy”
Colin McCrea addresses the challenges and rewards of Atlantic’s approach to philanthropy at the Institute of Philanthropy’s recent conference in London. All of us involved in philanthropy would like to see more people giving more money in a more thoughtful way. There is no…
Resource type: Speech
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The Corner Office, Non-Profit Edition: A Practitioner’s Thoughts on Social Justice Management
Social justice management should be both more humane and tougher, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech at the Yale School of Management. I was at first flattered when I heard that students here at the Yale School of Management…
Resource type: Speech
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The Crisis in Zimbabwe: Atlantic’s Work with Refugees in the Limpopo Province
Source: Gara LaMarche
Gara LaMarche I recently travelled to Limpopo, a South African province on the border of Zimbabwe that is experiencing an influx of Zimbabweans who are escaping from that very troubled country, where human rights are disregarded, disease is running rampant, and the economy long…
Resource type: News
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Obama orders Guantanamo closure
Source: BBC News
Original Source US President Barack Obama has ordered the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp as well as all overseas CIA detention centres for terror suspects. Signing the orders, Mr Obama said the US would continue to fight terror, but maintain "our values and…
Resource type: News
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Same Sex Marriage: Culture, Law and Advocacy on Three Continents
Source: Gara LaMarche
Achieving full legal equality for gay men and lesbians has never been easy, in any part of the world. Yet in an increasingly globalised media, legal and economic environment, what happens in one country can provide valuable lessons for another. We get an unusual opportunity…
Resource type: News
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Philanthropic Partnership: Improving the lives of our Fellow-citizens
Source: Council on Foundations
Link to Video This year's Council on Foundations conference, titled "Philanthropy's Vision: A Leadership Summit," took place May 4-7, 2008 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. At the Monday, May 5 luncheon plenary, "Philanthropic Partnership: Improving the…
Resource type: News
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There Are No Pockets In A Shroud
Source: The Chattanoogan
By Roy Exum If you were to go to Da Nang General Hospital in Vietnam today, you would be startled over the fact it is painted green a brilliant shamrock green to be more precise in a veiled effort to thank the Irish-American who built…
Resource type: News