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Up Close: Blogging from South Africa
Night and a Day in Queenstown Posted by Gara LaMarche | 18 March 2011, South Africa As Jack has chronicled, we arrived in Queenstown, the final leg of our journey in the Eastern Cape, in the dark, around 7 p.m. This was a problem for two…
Author: Gara LaMarche and Jack Rosenthal
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Charity seeks new parents for major study
Original Source By Staff reporter The Lifestart Foundation – the umbrella group for Lifestart projects throughout the North West and Ireland – is looking to recruit local families onto a major new study which will help improve the support offered by the organisation to new parents. Lifestart…
Author: Derry Journal
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Alzheimer test could transform diagnosis
A Belfast doctor has received a US research award for his work on the development of a blood test for Alzheimer’s, something that could transform diagnosis of the disease by Marina Murphy STEPHEN TODD of the department of geriatric medicine at Queen’s University Belfast hopes…
Author: Irish Times
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Nursing homes report worrying
MOST elderly people, given the choice, would prefer to live independently in their own homes, with appropriate support for the inevitable frailties and infirmities associated with old age. However, in many cases there comes a time when staying at home is no longer the best…
Author: Irish News
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Celebration Guests Extol Cornell Tech’s Beauty, Achievement and Promise
Guests attend a reception at the Cornell Tech campus Sept. 12, on the eve of the dedication. By Joe Wilensky On Roosevelt Island Sept. 12, on the eve of the Cornell Tech campus dedication, excitement was already building. Guests gathered on the new campus for…
Author: Cornell Chronicle
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Secretive Philanthropist Breaks Long Silence
By Marty Michaels On an otherwise unremarkable day in November 1984, Charles F. (Chuck) Feeney arrived in Nassau, the Bahamas, as one of the wealthiest men in America, having quietly amassed a fortune based on a global empire of duty-free shops that sold liquor and…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Celebrating Irishness: Charles ‘Chuck’ Feeney
Charles Feeney was born to a working class family in New Jersey, USA in the early 1930′s. His father’s mother hailed from near Kinawley, in Co Fermanagh, from where she emigrated to the USA. In the 1960′s he co-founded Duty Free Shoppers, which sold luxury…
Author: The Silver Voice
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Public Policy, Philanthropy and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland
Public Policy, Philanthropy and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland by Colin Knox and Padraic Quirk. Learn more > This book by Colin Knox and Padraic Quirk, former Country Director at The Atlantic Philanthropies, examines Atlantic’s role in helping to build peace and promote reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Northern…
Author: Palgrave Macmillan
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The Perfect Storm
The intensifying economic crisis slams the world of nonprofit organizations. Original Source By Eyal Press In the days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, sat at his desk in Lower Manhattan and reached out to people…
Author: The Nation
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Doodle Den Is Tackling Inequality After School in Limerick
Conor Neill (6) with his class in the Doodle Den in St Michael’s Infants School in Limerick. Photograph: Brian Gavin/Press 22 By Carl O’Brien A few weeks ago Siobhán Neill took her six-year-old son, Conor, to McDonald’s as a treat. She was about to ask…
Author: The Irish Times