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Next Avenue Website to Be Inspirational and Informative Hub for Booming 50+ Population
Visit Next Avenue > America is in the midst of an age boom. The 50+ population in America has grown from 74 million in 1999 to more than 99 million today, and is projected to be 127 million in 2030. While part can be attributed…
Author: Next Avenue
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Next Avenue Names the Most Influential People in Aging
Dr. Atul Gawande is Next Avenue’s Influencer of the Year By Liza Kaufman Hogan Today, Next Avenue released the 2015 Influencers in Aging, its first annual list recognizing 50 inspiring thought leaders, innovators, doctors, authors, advocates, experts, executives and others changing how we age and think about…
Author: Next Avenue
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Dominic Campbell: Inspired to Celebrate Aging
By Julie Pfitzinger Dominic Campbell, a 2018 Influencer in Aging, is the co-founder of Creative Aging International and an Atlantic Fellow for Equity and Brain Health with the Global Brain Health Initiative. From 2006-2013, he was the director of the Bealtaine Festival in Ireland, an annual national event which celebrates aging. Next…
Author: Next Avenue
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Purpose Prize Winner Fights for Caregivers
Crusader Barbara Young helped nannies get better pay and benefits. Her new goal: better working conditions for aides to the elderly. When is the last time you worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for total pay of $225? My guess is probably…
Author: Next Avenue
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In Tight Times, Many Nonprofits Feel the Pinch as Contributions Dwindle
By GLENN COLLINS Could we have picked a worse time for a gala? asked Richard J. Moylan, president of Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, regretting the disappointing turnout for the institution’s fund-raising dinner on Friday night. He could have spoken for hundreds of nonprofits of all…
Author: The New York Times
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A gift that keeps on giving
Even before she married Lewis Glucksman, Loretta Brennan’s heart was in Ireland, but as chair of the American Ireland Fund she has generated ‘tens of millions’ for Irish causes, writes LARA MARLOWE, in New York. LORETTA BRENNAN GLUCKSMAN was already in her 40s when she…
Author: The Irish Times
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Gara LaMarche '76's Job Is To Give Away $4 Billion
Original Source By Thomas F. Ferguson ’74 By the time most people are 50, they have learned to spend less than they earn. Gara LaMarche ’76 has had to unlearn that rule in his job as CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, a $4 billion global…
Author: Columbia College Today Alumni Magazine May/June 2008
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A man with so much to spend but so little time
One evening last spring, as a fierce north-easter tore through the New York region, Gara LaMarche settled in to watch The Sopranos and bake batches of muffins. The next morning, baked goodies safely stowed in Ziploc bags, he set off for the offices of The…
Author: Financial Times
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Our Schools Must Do Better
I asked a high school kid walking along Commonwealth Avenue if he knew who the vice president of the United States was. He thought for a moment and then said, “No.” I told him to take a guess. He thought for another moment, looked at…
Author: New York Times
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2 Ways to Help More People Have Encore Careers
By Marc Freedman, Next Avenue Contributor (This article is adapted from The Upside of Aging, edited by Paul H. Irving.) Healthier and more energetic than their predecessors, many of those moving beyond the middle years today want continued purpose in life. They want engagement, stimulation and challenges. Many want to…
Author: Forbes