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City marks anniversary of resident ID program
Original Source By Mary E. O’Leary, Register Topics Editor NEW HAVEN – The city celebrated the one-year anniversary of the Elm City Resident Card program Thursday by announcing several additional features that will be introduced in a pilot program this fall. Kica Matos, the city’s…
Author: New Haven Register
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Oct. 12th Event - Celebrating Financial Reform: What Happened and What’s Next?
With President Obama’s signature on 21 July 2010, consumer protections were established and strengthened regulations were put in place that will provide increased oversight and transparency of the financial sector as a whole. Throughout the campaign for financial reform, progressive advocates made sure that the…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Six Entrepreneurs Over 60 Win $100,000 Purpose Prizes for Innovation, Extraordinary Contribution in Encore Careers
Nine Others Win $10,000 Each, as Experienced Adults Prove to be an Unexpected Source of Social Innovation SAN FRANCISCO – One winner put his mechanical know-how to work and invented a $28 machine to help rural African villagers shell peanuts more efficiently. Another, in Fargo,…
Author: Civic Ventures
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Olin Lecture Reflects on Philanthropy of Chuck Feeney '56
Christopher G. Oechsli, foreground, speaks with President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes, center, and interim President Hunter Rawlings during the 2016 Olin Lecture in Bailey Hall. Photo: Lindsay France/University Photography By Blaine Friedlander In the Olin Lecture – a Reunion weekend highlight – Christopher G. Oechsli,…
Author: Cornell Chronicle
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5 Humble Humanitarian Heroes
By Oliver Lee You don’t need to be Angelina Jolie or Bono to be a great humanitarian. Nothing against celebri-tarians, of course. It can’t be easy galavanting across the globe, giving speeches for good causes, paparazzi pouncing every time you hug a malnourished Sudanese child.…
Author: TakePart
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Viet Nam Journal: Over 11 Years, Atlantic Grants Help Spur a Country’s Transformation in Health
Several of the staff of the Hue Central Hospital were kind enough to come to work last Sunday morning to give my Atlantic colleagues and me a tour of what has become a world-class facility in the ten years since our Founding Chairman, Chuck Feeney,…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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South Africa Journal: Engaged Activism Bends the Arc Toward Hope
I returned this weekend from an extended visit to South Africa, where Atlantic has long been engaged in supporting organisations and leaders working on human rights, reconciliation and health issues. Ordinarily in a column, I try to drill down on some particular aspect of our…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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FOIC ruling to face challenge
Original Source By Aaron Bray, Staff Reporter This July, the Elm City Resident Card celebrated both its one-year anniversary and a long-awaited court victory – although opponents are looking to cut the celebrations short. At the conclusion of months of testimony and hearings before the…
Author: Yale Daily News
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FOIC ruling to face challenge
by Aaron Bray This July, the Elm City Resident Card celebrated both its one-year anniversary and a long-awaited court victory – although opponents are looking to cut the celebrations short. At the conclusion of months of testimony and hearings before the state Freedom of Information…
Author: Yale Daily News
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Philanthropy's Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline
By Kavitha Mediratta Last year, at the beginning of ninth grade, my son’s friend Emmanuel was suspended from school for bringing a brick to class. Emmanuel had found the brick in the schoolyard, and with the satirical wit of a 14-year-old, named it “Softie” and…
Author: American Educator