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What Does Collaborative Donor Practice Look Like?
By Gillian Mitchell, Gabrielle Ritchie and Melanie Judge Collaboration is a non-profit and funding term that is increasingly used to refer to good organisational and donor practice. “Collaboration teaches us to leave our strategies at the door and to come together collectively to decide what’s best…
Author: Resourcing Philanthropy
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Risk with Vision: Placing Informed 'Big Bets'
By Gillian Mitchell, Gabrielle Ritchie and Melanie Judge Philanthropy and risk are not natural bedfellows. For most of us philanthropy invokes an impression of measured resolution, gravity and thoughtfulness. Philanthropy makes considered interventions into areas of society that are not delivering on rights or opportunity…
Author: Resourcing Philanthropy
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Margin to Centre: How Philanthropy Can Help Guarantee Constitutional Rights in South Africa
By Gillian Mitchell, Gabrielle Ritchie and Melanie Judge Resourcing Philanthropy is a new online platform that profiles philanthropic giving through the sharing of information, advice, tactics, tools and insights from grantmakers, non-profit leaders and philanthropists in South Africa. Drawing on the grantmaking experience and impact of The…
Author: Resourcing Philanthropy
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Bringing Everyone to the Table to Eradicate School Discipline Disparities
By Allison Brown and Kavitha Mediratta Representatives from Open Society Foundations and The Atlantic Philanthropies discuss philanthropy’s role in school discipline reform. This article was originally published in VUE magazine. Download the PDF > VUE website > The Atlantic Philanthropies funded the work of the Positive…
Author: VUE
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How ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ Initiative Just Might Save Black Boys
Photo: Thinkstock/The Root By Tanya E. Coke By linking education and criminal justice, the initiative could finally address the key problems that are holding back young men. On Thursday, President Obama launched My Brother’s Keeper, a joint initiative of government, philanthropy and business leaders to improve…
Author: The Root
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Social welfare appeals process not fit for purpose
SAOIRSE BRADY Thu, Feb 07, 2013 Opinion: With a national unemployment rate of 14.6 per cent – the fourth highest in the EU – it is no surprise that more people are turning to the social welfare system for basic assistance. It is also unsurprising that,…
Author: The Irish Times
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Behind the scenes of school infrastructure victory
OPINION Doron Isaacs of Equal Education describes the organisation’s campaign that got the Minister of Basic Education to settle their court case last week. On Monday 12 November I was sitting in a meeting at Equal Education head office in Khayelitsha and noticed the red…
Author: Ground Up
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Equal Education launches court case against Minister for Basic Education, Angie Motshekga
Today at a press conference Equal Education (EE) announced that it had filed papers in the Bhisho High Court against Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga; Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan; and the nine provincial MECs for Education. As EE Coordinator Doron Isaacs explained: “The…
Author: Equal Education
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Centre for Justice Says Changes to Human Rights Act Do Not Go Far Enough
By Ayo Johnson Legislators are today being urged to reject proposed changes to the Human Rights Act in favour of amendments which bring Bermuda’s human rights regime in line with international standards. The amendments to be debated today do not go far enough to create…
Author: The Royal Gazette
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Report Card 2012: Is the Government Keeping Its Promises to Children?
Report Card 2012 was published on 23 January 2012. This year the Alliance has given the Irish Government its best result in four years – an overall ‘C+’ grade for its progress to date on its key promises to children. The grade is in recognition…
Author: Children's Rights Alliance