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Separating generations a bad idea; When young, old live together, it's better for society.
by Susanne Bleiberg Seperson and Paul Arfin Susanne Bleiberg Seperson is director of the Center for Intergenerational Policy and Practice at Dowling College. Paul Arfin is president and chief executive of Intergenerational Strategies, a nonprofit charitable organization. President-elect Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel,…
Author: Newsday (New York)
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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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Field Dispatches: Strengthen Social Security launch
The Strengthen Social Security Coalition, a broad-based diverse, multi-generational coalition of over 60 national and state organisations, was launched July 29. The still-growing coalition has organisations representing over 30 million Americans, including workers, women, seniors, persons with disabilities, children, low-income, and the civil and human…
Author: Strengthen Social Security
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Older job seekers struggle to overcome age barrier
The Urban Institute and AARP are Atlantic grantees. by CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER Like many unemployed older workers, 64-year old Allan Kellum fears his age has made it harder to find a new job. At a recent job fair, Kellum expressed interest in a supervisory role…
Author: Associated Press Online
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Older workers and the recession
by Richard W. Johnson Johnson is a principal research associate in the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute’s Income and Benefits Policy Center. Last week’s triple dose of grim employment news stirred memories of the early 1980s. Made official on Monday, the current recession has already outlasted…
Author: The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Audacious Philanthropy
Image: Christopher Corr / Getty Images By Susan Wolf Ditkoff and Abe Grindle Private philanthropists have helped propel some of the most important social-impact success stories of the past century: Virtually eradicating polio globally. Providing free and reduced-price lunches for all needy schoolchildren in the United…
Author: Harvard Business Review
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Drummond: Finding solutions to help high school dropouts
By Tammerlin Drummond In Oakland and in other cities around the country, students have been dropping out of high school in droves. The numbers for African-Americans are especially dire: Those leaving school versus those graduating have been virtually neck and neck. That was before the…
Author: Oakland Tribune
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One Life to Give
Conor O’Cleary interviews Chuck Feeney about his philosophy of giving. Irish America 12-01-2003 Chuck Feeney has just put into practice something he had been considering for many years. He has decided that all the vast wealth he accumulated in his lifetime should be given away…
Author: Irish America
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The Transformer: Chuck Feeney '56 Champions the Pleasure of Giving While Living
Rendering of a portion of the future Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, showing the campus lawn, the first academic building (left) and the co-location buidling. Rendering: Luke Yoo/Morphosis By Emily Sanders Hopkins He is Cornell University’s biggest donor. Chuck Feeney ’56. Image: Fennell Photography…
Author: Ezra: Cornell's Quarterly Magazine
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How gay marriage went mainstream
The Gay and Lesbian Equality Network is an Atlantic grantee. Kathy Sheridan THE GAY WEDDING BUS is revving up. In the driving seat is Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore, sporting a big red T-shirt with the message, “Civil partnership is NOT marriage equality”. Behind him, highly excited,…
Author: The Irish Times