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Philanthropy for social change: a response to Michael Edwards
By Gara LaMarche Michael Edwards, in his openDemocracy essay ” Philanthrocapitalism: after the goldrush” (20 March 2008), raises an important and necessary voice of concern about trends in philanthropy that have received too little scrutiny to date – either because, as is often the case…
Author: OpenDemocracy
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Rockland wins $100,000 grant, kicks off its piece of national youth collaborative initiative
By Randi Weiner WEST NYACK – Rockland is one of four counties in New York to get money for a national program designed to help prepare kids for adulthood by improving the quality of youth programs already in place and getting those hundreds of separate…
Author: The Journal News
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Xenophobia emerges as a 'new apartheid'
Business Day, 1 April 2008 Xenophobia emerges as a ‘new apartheid’ WilsonJohwa Political Correspondent DRUNK on the alcohol they had just looted, some sang Awuleth’ umshiniwami and continued into the night. By morning, two Zimbabweans were dead. They were victims of the latest xenophobic attacks.…
Author: Business Day
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Atlantic Grantees in Texas Work to End a Lethal Lottery
When I arrived in Austin, Texas, the day after Labor Day in 1984 to take up my post as Executive Director of the Texas state branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, a 30-year old Yankee who’d never set foot in the state before my…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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The strategic philanthropist
By Michael Traill The recent and welcome examples of significant giving from some of Australia’s newly minted billionaires highlight a real challenge: how to make that generosity deliver real impact? It is a problem for the ages. As Aristotle observed: To give away money is…
Author: Business Spectator
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Promoting giving while living
Tax incentives and banking practices need to be developed to encourage Ireland’s newly wealthy to indulge in philanthropy, writes Colin McCrea. The Irish people have always shown themselves generous in giving to charity – a characteristic that long predates the Celtic Tiger. As such one…
Author: Irish Times
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The Spirit of Bermuda – On the Waves and On the Shore
This may be the Atlantic Currents column most in keeping with the title of this series, because it starts with a boat on the Atlantic Ocean. In Bermuda, to be exact — a small country of only 65,000 people, but one very important to Atlantic…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Communities Fighting for Rights in Northern Ireland: You’re Not “On Your Own”
When Gerard McCarten, a butcher from North Belfast, steeled up his courage to testify before the local health authority about the suicide of his son Danny two years ago, the officials he was dealing with got up and opened the windows in the room onto…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Encore: Retire to the Couch With Some Good Advice
If someone on your holiday shopping list is showing some gray, a book about “third acts” could be just the ticket. Each year, we see dozens of guides that aim to help people prepare for and enjoy life in their 50s and beyond. Here are…
Author: Wall Street Journal
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Immigration Quandary: A Mother Torn From Her Baby
Federal immigration agents were searching a house in Ohio last month when they found a young Honduran woman nursing her baby. The woman, Saída Umanzor, is an illegal immigrant and was taken to jail to await deportation. Her 9-month-old daughter, Brittney Bejarano, who was born…
Author: New York Times