Results List
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June 14 Deadline for American Express NGen Leadership Award Nominations
There is still time to nominate an under 40 nonprofit leader for the American Express NGen Leadership Award. This award was created to honor an outstanding individual who has already had a transformative impact on addressing society’s critical needs. It also highlights both the promise…
Author: Independent Sector
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Migrant Workers 'Get Less Favourable Treatment at Work'
FOREIGNERS are only half as likely as Irish nationals to have favourable working conditions here, new figures reveal. Those working in the hotel and restaurant sector are faring badly, with the worst rate of access to favourable working conditions in every category. Almost twice as…
Author: The Irish Independent
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Immigrants Play Vital Economic Role, Even in Slump
By Donal O’Donovan Inward migration of workers remains crucial for Ireland’s economy regardless of the current downturn, according to new research. The research by economist Jim Power for the Integration Centre, a charity supported by Atlantic Philanthropies and the One Foundation, is the first major…
Author: Independent.ie
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Independent initiative to help renew trust in public life
NATIONAL CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY TO BE HELD IN JUNE We the Citizens, an independent national initiative aimed at showing how Ireland could benefit from citizens coming together in new forms of public decision-making, has been launched in Dublin. The objective is to help to renew democracy…
Author: We the Citizens
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Chuck Feeney: Giving It All Away
Atlantic Philanthropies has this year wound itself up as quietly as it arrived in Ireland more than 30 years ago, after dispensing €1bn on Irish projects. Our reporter profiles Chuck Feeney — the billionaire backer of an extraordinary foundation. By Liam Collins Everybody you meet…
Author: Independent.ie
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Ageism: As young as you feel
Original Source By Barbara Harding The upcoming ‘Say No To Ageism’ week from 19 to 23 May is an initiative that seeks to promote a new awareness of the stereotyping of older employees in the workplace. It also aims to support practical action by organisations…
Author: Irish Independent
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Dreams of a better life long departed
Images and text combine in Voices from the Land, to reveal despair and hope Distance blunts the jagged edges of painful realities. But all it takes is a smell, sound or image to re-sharpen the softened contours of memory. That has been the effect on…
Author: The Sunday Independent
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'NonProfit Times' Announces Sector's Top 50 for 2008
The NonProfit Times, a leading business publication covering the nonprofit sector, has released its eleventh annual Power and Influence Top 50 list. No real surprises, except for the large number of first-timers on the list. Makes perfect sense, actually, given that the sector is in…
Author: Philantopic/NonProfit Times
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Clean Bills of health?
by Anso Thom TWO Bills recently tabled in parliament are set to shake up the private hospital industry and centralise decision-making over hospital tariffs as well as the regulation of new medicines and scientific trials within the health minister’s office. The National Health Amendment Bill…
Author: Sunday Tribune (South Africa)
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Rising Costs for Nonprofits Overlooked in Healthcare Proposals
Independent Sector is an Atlantic grantee. Nonprofit organizations are upset that Congress and the Obama administration have not addressed their rising healthcare costs in the healthcare reform proposals being floated on Capitol Hill, the New York Times reports. The main bill proposed in the House…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest