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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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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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Foundations help nonprofits hurt in Madoff affair
By RACHEL BECK NEW YORK (AP) – Nonprofits that are struggling because their donors lost money with Bernard Madoff are getting a bailout — but not from the government. Richer foundations are stepping in to help. Human Rights Watch, The Center for Constitutional Rights and others are…
Author: Associated Press
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As 2009 Nears, Stresses Vie with Opportunities for Atlantic and its Grantees
As 2008 draws to a close, organisations, just like individuals, should take a moment to reflect on the challenges and accomplishments of the year that is ending, and prepare for the one ahead. I’d like to do that, in this final column of an eventful…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Nursing education in South Africa receives an R70m boost
Original Source Four universities will divide among them a sum of R70m, donated to help improve nursing education in the country over the next four years, the Inyathelo organisation announced on Thursday. The grants, courtesy of The Atlantic Philanthropies, an international philanthropic organisation, are aimed…
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As Millions Plan Longer Working Lives, Stanford Summit to Promote a New Social Norm: Encore Careers for the Greater Good
New Brand Draws Attention to the Pause at the End of Midlife Careers and the Good Work That Can Follow Original Source SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5 (AScribe Newswire) — Hundreds of people in encore careers, plus leaders in business, education, government, philanthropy, academia and public…
Author: AScribe Newswire
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A Moment for Progressive Change in America: How Can We Make the Most of It?
Now that we know that Barack Obama will take the office of President of the United States on January 20, the scenario planning that virtually all non-profits and philanthropies have been doing can kick into high gear. My e-mail inbox, and no doubt yours, is…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Atlantic Philanthropies well placed to face recession
Atlantic Philanthropies’ endowment, which funds many projects in Ireland, will be worth less due to the stock market meltdown but will not be as badly affected as other foundations, according Atlantic’s chief executive, Gara LaMarche. While no one planned for the magnitude of the stock…
Author: UK Fundraising
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Rich pickings in an overlong, authorised biography of a billionaire investor
BOOK OF THE DAY: The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder Bloomsbury 960pp, £25 reviewed by CONOR O’CLERY THIS IS the second major biography of Warren Buffett, whose net worth was recently estimated at US$62 billion, but the first which…
Author: Irish Times
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Wall Street's Tremors Leave Harlem Shaken
by TIMOTHY WILLIAMS Before its economic turnaround in recent years, Harlem was a case study in disinvestment. Banks were unwilling to make mortgage loans or to open branches, national chain stores could not be lured uptown, city services lagged and the neighborhood became economically isolated…
Author: The New York Times