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Government warned to consult older people on positive ageing strategy
by EITHNE DONNELLAN THE GOVERNMENT has been warned that if it fails to consult older people on the development of a proposed national positive ageing strategy that it could suffer the consequences in next year’s local elections. The warning came yesterday from the Older and…
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Next-Gen Givers
Generous Gen-Xers are putting their own spin on charitable giving, combining their desire to achieve with their desire to do good. Original Source By SUZANNE MCGEE THE STORY IN PHILANTHROPY THIS HOLIDAY SEASON is becoming all too familiar. Individuals, foundations and corporations are all scaling…
Author: Barrons
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DUT nurses' training programme set for 2009
by Latoya Newman The Durban University of Technology (DUT) has received a R30 million grant that it will channel into a new undergraduate nurses’ training programme. DUT said yesterday that the grant came from the Atlantic Philanthropies, an international foundation. The university had already received…
Author: The Natal Mercury
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'Tinker with the health system at your peril'
The confusion created by the mess over whether over-70s will retain their right to a medical card has created huge uncertainty for the health service and the elderly, reports Aileen O’Meara. As the opposition loudly hammered government ministers in the Dáil last Thursday for abolishing…
Author: Sunday Business Post (Ireland)
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Government confident it can move ahead with re-integration
Original Source by Victor Khupiso, Gabisile Ndebele and Philani Nombembe ‘We don’t want foreigners … I don’t regret taking part in these attacks’ As safety camps housing 7000 people who fled May’s xenophobic violence prepare to close in the next two weeks, foreigners are sceptical…
Author: Sunday Times (South Africa)
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Charity Cases
Social-networking phenomenon makes it easy for donors to promote their favorite causes online Original Source By PAUL B. CARROLL For most people, networking on the Web means keeping up with friends or building business contacts. Now a number of charities — and thousands of ordinary…
Author: The Wall Street Journal
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Xenophobic Violence in South Africa: Rays of Hope in Terrible Times
Johannesburg, South Africa When I arrived here on Monday after eighteen hours in transit, I was greeted by the horrific image on the front page of that morning’s Star, of a refugee hunted down by a mob and burned alive, in a grim imitation of…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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12 People Who Are Changing Your Retirement
Joseph Coughlin describes his work as “trying to get people to ‘age cool.’ ” More specifically, as director of AgeLab, a research program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is pushing advances in transportation, health care and housing off drawing boards and into older…
Author: Wall Street Journal
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The Billionaire Who Wasn’t
Today in New York, the worlds of publishing and philanthropy mark an unusual event:the launch of a biography of Atlantic’s founder, Charles F. Feeney. It’s unusual because Chuck Feeney has spent his whole life avoiding the spotlight, even going to the lengths of originally setting…
Author: Gara LaMarche