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Accord on intl medical aid inked
The Ministry of Health on March 31 signed a cooperation accord with international and domestic partners in increasing the efficiency of international medical aid to Vietnam. The accord was the outcome of a conference with medical partners, drawing eight bilateral donors, three international organisations, four…
Author: Vietnamese News Agency (VNA)
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American Cancer Society Awarded Grant to Work with Vietnam Businesses on Tobacco Control
Original Source The American Cancer Society has been awarded a two-year grant by Atlantic Philanthropies to fight the tobacco burden in Vietnam. The Society will team up with the Vietnam Committee on Smoking and Health (VINACOSH) to develop a national tobacco control media advocacy strategy…
Author: Global Fight Against Cancer
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WB commits 1.2 billion USD in aid to Vietnam
The World Bank will provide Vietnam with 755.6 million SDR (equivalent to 1.2 billion USD) in aid from the International Development Assistance (IDA) source for the 2009 fiscal year. The WB Executive Director in charge of Southeast Asia, Mat Aron Deraman, announced the decision at…
Author: Vietnam News Agency
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Scanning the Skyline: Lessons From 30 Years of Capital Grantmaking
Buildings have a special allure for philanthropy—their mass, their unambiguous reality, their durability, their promise of sheltering great transformative enterprise—that few other achievements can match. They also conjure a cloud of distinctive risks: the possibility of inadequate maintenance, financial drain, premature obsolescence, the danger that…
Author: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
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40,000 new claims for school aid overwhelm officials
By Carl O’Brien There has been a huge increase in requests from families for assistance with the cost of sending their children back to school. Almost 200,000 parents have applied for the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance, 30,000 more than the Government had budgeted for. The…
Author: The Irish Times
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Civil society movement plans more meetings
by KITTY HOLLAND THE CLAIMING Our Future civil society movement, which held its inaugural meeting at the RDS, Dublin in October, is to begin a series of regional meetings in the new year. The first meeting is likely to be in Galway during February, according…
Author: The Irish Times
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Watchdog Group Calls for More Funding to Benefit Society
Original Source A new report from the Washington, D.C.-based National Committee for Responsive Philanthropyargues that foundations and other grantmaking institutions are not delivering as much social benefit as they could. To help foundations and others do more, NCRP has released a set of measurable guidelines that…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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12 mln USD aid to refurbish provincial medical facilities
Original Source Thua Thien-Hue (VNA)- The US-based Atlantic Philanthropies organisation has agreed to fund a 12 million USD project to upgrade and refurbish medical stations in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, according to a provincial official on Dec. 11. The Director of Thua Thien-Hue…
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GSA: Long-Term Care Workers Struggle with Elderly Population Boom
Original Source As America’s aging population increases, so does its need for long-term care, and the workers who provide these services often lack the support they need–particularly in the area of pay and work relationships. These concerns are center stage in “Better Jobs Better Care:…
Author: Gerontological Society of America
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Earlier aid for HIV patients could save unborn babies
Original Source by Khopotso Bodibe The Department of Health may in future allow people living with HIV to get antiretroviral drugs earlier. At present, people relying on public sector health can only get the medication when their CD4 count, which measures the level of immunity…
Author: Pretoria News (South Africa)