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20 Years On, South Africa's Remarkable Constitution Remains Unfulfilled
By Christopher Oechsli and Darren Walker Commentary: Realizing Mandela’s vision of a democratic future is a collective global responsibility. A statue of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first democratic president and Nobel Laureate is pictured outside the parliament. (RODGER BOSCH/AFP/Getty Images) Over a year after the…
Author: GlobalPost
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Job Posting: Executive Director, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)
Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) is an Atlantic grantee through the Population Health programme. Position Description Search for the Executive Director Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) Oakland, CA Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (“MEDICC”), a highly regarded non-profit organization working to enhance cooperation among the US,…
Author: Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group
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This Week in PubHub: LGBTQ Issues
(Kyoko Uchida manages PubHub, the Foundation Center’s online catalog of foundation-sponsored publications. In her last post, she looked at four reports that examined efforts to protect and promote international human rights.) This week PubHub is concluding its month-long focus on civil and human rights by featuring…
Author: Philantopic, a blog from Philanthropy News Digest
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Youth group opens centre in former drug den in North Hamilton
By TAURIA RAYNOR A building once used for illicit activity has been completely transformed by a grassroots organisation that provides free assistance to entrepreneurs. Youth on the Move (YOM) was founded on the principle that the ability to achieve something positive, is within everyone’s reach.…
Author: The Royal Gazette
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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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Philanthropy and Government: Striking the Right Balance
Now that both major parties in the U.S. have presumptive nominees for the Presidency, it seems like a good time to share some thoughts on the relationships between philanthropy and government – relationships that Atlantic has considerable experience with in each of the countries in…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Grantees Welcome New Federal Guidelines Addressing Discipline in Schools
Atlantic grantees working for school discipline reform welcomed the federal government’s announcement of new school guidelines that discourage the use of zero tolerance school discipline polices. Daniel J. Losen, director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, called the action “huge.” “The guidelines put all…
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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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Judge Rules NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Practices Unconstitutional, Racially Discriminatory
In a historic ruling on 12 August 2013, a federal judge found the New York City Police Department (NYPD) stop-and-frisk practices — which entail temporarily detaining people on the street, questioning them, and possibly also frisking or searching them — unconstitutional and racially discriminatory. This legal victory…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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The Crisis in Zimbabwe: Atlantic’s Work with Refugees in the Limpopo Province
Gara LaMarche I recently travelled to Limpopo, a South African province on the border of Zimbabwe that is experiencing an influx of Zimbabweans who are escaping from that very troubled country, where human rights are disregarded, disease is running rampant, and the economy long…
Author: Gara LaMarche
