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Answers About the City's After-School Programs
By The New York Times Following is the first set of answers from Lucy N. Friedman, the president of a nonprofit organization that provides children with after-school programs. We are no longer accepting questions on this feature. Read Ms. Friedman’s biography. Read the second set…
Author: The New York Times - City Room blog
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2008 Fred Rogers Award Honoree: Debra Delgado
Original Source At the 2008 Annual Conference in Chicago, Grantmakers for Children, Youth, and Families awarded the 2008 Fred Rogers Leadership Award in Philanthropy for Children, Youth and Families posthumously to our beloved friend and colleague Debra Delgado. Debra was a wonderfully fun and compassionate…
Author: Grantmakers for Children, Youth, and Families
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Services cannot cope with number of youths seeking help
by CARL OBRIEN HUNDREDS OF children and adolescents in crisis who need counselling and support are being turned away from services because they cannot cope with demand. Crosscare, the social care agency of the Dublin Diocese, said it was unable to deal with about…
Author: The Irish Times
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Back to Basics: More charities are seeking - and getting - operating support
Original Source By Elizabeth Schwinn When Earl Martin Phalen started Building Educated Leaders for Life, a program that prepares Boston inner-city students for college, he found it easy to persuade foundations to pay for tutors and books. But few would give him money for the…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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THE GIVEAWAY MAN; Philanthropist gave away a fortune; but won't forget or forgive a grudge; Wrath of an Irish enigma
A new book reveals how Mayor Ron Clarke fell out with a wealthy benefactor. Sue Lappeman reports. A NEW book has revealed how Gold Coast Mayor Ron Clarke blew his friendship with a secretive billionaire American philanthropist who bankrolled the Couran Cove and Runaway Bay…
Author: The Gold Coast Bulletin
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Donating, With Care
Now More Cautious, Some Are Keeping Philanthropy Closer to Home Donating, With Care Now More Cautious, Some Are Keeping Philanthropy Closer to Home By Kathleen Day Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 19, 2006; F01 Americans give generously, but that charitable spirit recently has been…
Author: Washington Post
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Filling the Void
Introducing the 2006 Social Capitalist Award winners–25 entrepreneurs solving the world’s toughest problems with creativity, ingenuity, and passion. Because they can’t stand a vacuum. The entrepreneurial mind abhors a vacuum. Market failures, unmet demand, even the maddening lure of a blank napkin–all beckon as explicit…
Author: Fast Company
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Higher Achievement Program Named Winner of The Washington Post 2005 Award for Excellence in Nonprofit Management
PRESS RELEASE CONTACT Rick Rose, Director of Communications EMAIL rickr@nonprofitadvancement.org SUBJECT Higher Achievement Program Named Winner of The Washington Post 2005 Award for Excellence in Nonprofit Management Washington, D.C. – The Center for Nonprofit Advancement, formerly the Washington Council of Agencies, announced today that Higher…
Author: Center for Nonprofit Advancement
