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Aurora chosen for national senior care project
Aurora Health Care was one of six sites chosen by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University to participate in a program to shape health care for senior citizens nationwide. Through the Medicare Innovations Collaborative, Aurora Health Care will provide technical expertise…
Author: The Business Journal of Milwaukee
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Report Recommends Ways to Boost Postsecondary Participation Among Older Adults
Notwithstanding successful efforts by some colleges and universities to create lifelong learning programs for adults age 55 and older, many institutions remain stuck in outmoded, one-dimensional views of this cohort, a new report from the American Council on Education finds. Funded by the MetLife Foundation, the report, Mapping New…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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Economy prompts shift in Plus 50
Original Source By MATTHEW DEMBICKI The slumping economy and increases in layoffs have prompted community colleges that are part of a new national initiative to engage older learners to tilt their programs for that population more toward job training than other types of programs. The…
Author: Community College Times
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Youth group opens centre in former drug den in North Hamilton
By TAURIA RAYNOR A building once used for illicit activity has been completely transformed by a grassroots organisation that provides free assistance to entrepreneurs. Youth on the Move (YOM) was founded on the principle that the ability to achieve something positive, is within everyone’s reach.…
Author: The Royal Gazette
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Throwing schools out the window
By Nicholas Kristof So this is what the Senate seems to be coming down to: keeping bridges and throwing students out the window. The effort to prune the stimulus package to make it more palatable to Republicans is focused on slashing money for education. The…
Author: The New York Times
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Charity workers to get educational aid
Cummings Zuill thought he was going to the headquarters of ACE Ltd. yesterday to attend a diversity workshop. Instead he arrived to find he was being honoured with the establishment in his name of a $2 million education endowment for people in the non-profit sector.…
Author: The Royal Gazette
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Atlantic Philanthropies
By Kristin White For many years there has been a Secret Santa of sorts for our local nonprofits.When their good works caught the eye of this secret benefactor, they would be blessed with financial grants upwards of one hundred thousand dollars.In the nonprofit community, this…
Author: The Royal Gazette
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