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Watch Online Episodes of The Big Debate, South Africa's New Political Talk Show
Watch Online Atlantic grantee Ben Cashdan of Broad Daylight Films, has produced two excellent shows: one on the South African elections (taking place on Wednesday, April 22) and the other on the ongoing crisis in Zimbabwe, now available for viewing online. About THE BIG DEBATE…
Author: The Big Debate
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New Center Aids States in Developing Participant-Directed LTC Programs
Center supports programs that give participants choice and control over their home and community-based services and supports BOSTON—The Boston College Graduate School of Social Work launched a new technical assistance center that offers states the tools they need to implement a wide variety of participant-directed long-term care…
Author: Long-Term Living
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What Role Should Foundations Play During The Recession?
Original Source By Ian Wilhelm During a recent forum on grant making during a bad economy, participants debated whether foundations should focus their giving on social services or instead support advocacy efforts to influence the government. Two foundation leaders at the meeting at the Robert…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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AGE to age: Young, old to address community needs
Original Source A program bringing young people, adults, education, faith communities and civic and business organizations together continues Thurs., March 19 at Bay View Elementary school. Billed as “An Intergenerational Community Conversation,” the group will discuss what life is like as a teenager now and…
Author: Proctor Journal
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$125 million donation for new UCSF hospital
Original Source by Victoria Colliver, Chronicle Staff Writer UCSF Medical Center has received a $125 million donation, among the largest in its history, to help build a planned $1.68 billion hospital to provide services to women, children and cancer patients near its Mission Bay biomedical complex,…
Author: The San Francisco Chronicle
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$125 Million Is Pledged to Big Medical Center
Original Source By STEPHANIE STROM Despite a worldwide economic decline, the nine-figure gift is not dead. Charles F. Feeney, the iconoclastic philanthropist known as “the billionaire who wasn’t,” is giving $125 million to the University of California San Francisco Medical Center to support development of a complex…
Author: The New York Times
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Studies Show that Students Aren't the Only Ones Who Benefit from School-based Tutoring
WASHINGTON – Tutors over 55 who help young students on a regular basis experience positive physical and mental health outcomes, according to studies released by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The tutors studied were members of…
Author: Experience Corps
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Worried pixies hunt pots of gold
by Sue Lappeman TO quote Ernie from Sesame Street: “One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn’t belong, can you tell me which thing is not like the others by the time I finish my song?” Organ donor,…
Author: The Gold Coast Bulletin
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First U.S. woman to attempt Everest faces challenge with toxins research
Blum was recently one of six entrepreneurs over age 60 to win a $100,000 Purpose Prize Original Source By Kristin Bender BERKELEY — Arlene Blum has done some mind-boggling and challenging things in her 63 years. But even after climbing some of the world’s highest…
Author: Oakland Tribune
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Starting Over, With a Second Career Goal of Changing Society
By Steve Lohr Harvard kicked off a small but ambitious experiment this week that it hopes will become a new “third stage” of university education. For the student-fellows in the program, most in their 50s and early 60s, the goal is a second-act career in…
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