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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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LGBT Philanthropy Tour Encourages Support of Southern Africa
Inka von Sternenfels listens intently to the guide along with other LGBT members of the LGBTQI Donor Study Tour of South Africa. Photo by Tracy Gary. By Heather Cassell Anyone who knows Jody Cole, owner of Wild Rainbow African Safaris, know she’s passionate about Africa…
Author: PQ Monthly
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Ethnic Seniors Avoid End-of-Life Talk, but Want More Options
New America Media/Northwest Vietnamese News, News Feature, Julie Pham,Part 2 of 2. Read part 1 here. At the Vietnamese Senior Association (VSA) in Seattle, Marie Thu Le, 75, confessed that “When my time comes, I don’t want to be dependent on machines. I don’t want to…
Author: The Immigrant Magazine
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Elev8 Students to Congressman: Immigration Reform Now
By Maureen Kelleher. For many Chicago middle school students, immigration reform isn’t an academic abstraction. Some of them are undocumented, or have friends and classmates who are, and they’re apprehensive about what life beyond the 8th grade holds for them. This was abundantly clear earlier…
Author: LISC/Chicago
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Congressman Crowley visits Allerton school
Original Source by Amanda Marinaccio The students of P.S. 89 received a special treat on Monday, January 12, as Congressman Joseph Crowley paid a visit to read the students’ letters to President elect Barack Obama, made possible through the Building Educated Leaders for Life program. BELL is…
Author: Bronx Times
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On Mission Bay’s 10th Anniversary, Hospital Construction Surges Forward
The new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, shown in this December 2012 photo, continues to take shape across the street from the research campus. Construction of the 289-bed state-of-the-art hospital complex for children, women and cancer patients is moving along swiftly, on schedule and…
Author: UCSF
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Springborg ambivalent about science and technology policy
THE spectacular rise of the bioscience and medical innovation sector in Brisbane did not rate a mention in Queensland Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg’s speech to the Committee for Economic Development yesterday. The omission followed a day after the potential premier and Liberal National Party candidate…
Author: The Australian
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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
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Game Changer: The Atlantic Philanthropies
By Nicole Richards Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO of US billionaire Chuck Feeney’s The Atlantic Philanthropies on why philanthropy is a force multiplier, the difference between ‘venture’ and ‘adventure’ philanthropy, and lessons learned from a limited life foundation. “It’s a real honour to talk…
Author: Generosity
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Atlantic Awards Community Catalyst $14.8 Million to Strengthen the Voice of Consumers in Health System Transformation
Legacy grant will support new Center for Consumer and Community Engagement Community Catalyst has been awarded a five-year $14.8 million legacy grant by The Atlantic Philanthropies to develop and promote a consumer agenda around “health system transformation,” fundamental changes in the health system that are…
Author: Community Catalyst