Results List
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Rehab services gain as great investment race resumes
By Suzanne Lynch. AFTER TAKING a break in 2009, the Rehab Great Investment Race is back again this year. The fundraising campaign, which launched in 2001, is an innovative way for those in the investment fund industry to do their bit for charity. Five Irish…
Author: The Irish Times
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Team management - Time for the 6th Rehab Great Investment Race
Rehab Group chief executive Angela Kerins with (from left) Seamus Manger, of Irish Life Investment Managers; Stephen Hynes, Merrion Investment Managers; Frank O’Brien, Rehab Investment team manager; Noel O’Halloran, KBC Asset Management; and Joseph Harrigan, AIB Investment Managers, at the launch of the 6th Rehab…
Author: The Irish Times
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Bloody Sunday report: 38 years on, justice at last
By Henry McDonald and Owen Bowcott. After a 38-year struggle for truth and justice campaigners for those killed in Derry on Bloody Sunday tonight celebrated the Saville Report’s exoneration of the victims and the report’s unequivocal conclusion that the shootings were “unjustified”. The Bloody Sunday…
Author: The Guardian
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Cover: The 25 Best Givers
With money tight, top philanthropists insist on more bang for the buck. Meet the 25 most effective givers. The KIPP Foundation is an Atlantic grantee. By Suzanne McGee. THE NAME OF THE GAME IN PHILANTHROPY this year is to make your dollars go far —…
Author: Barron's
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Five Social Innovators in Encore Careers Win $100,000 Purpose Prize
The Purpose Prize and Civic Ventures are Atlantic grantees. SAN FRANCISCO – This year’s winners of The Purpose Prize, a $100,000 award for social innovators in their encore careers, are using a new stage of life to do extraordinary things to improve life for millions…
Author: Encore Careers / Civic Ventures
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Long-Term Care Consumer Voices Strengthened
NCCNHR is an Atlantic grantee. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NCCNHR (formerly the National Citizens’ Coalition for Nursing Home Reform) announced today the launch of a major strategic planning process which will help strengthen the organization’s role as a voice for individuals receiving long-term care.…
Author: PR Newswire
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Illegal immigrants to be given 'bridging visa'
Migrant Rights Centre Ireland is an Atlantic grantee. by Stephen Rogers SEVERAL thousand illegal immigrants open to immediate expulsion are to be allowed stay in the country for at least four months under legislation published yesterday. The group is comprised of citizens from outside the…
Author: Irish Examiner
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NonProfit Times Announces Influential Top 50 for 2009
Original Source The NonProfit Times, a leading business publication covering the nonprofit sector, has released its annual Power and Influence Top 50 list, which this year reflects the growing importance of the national service movement. This year’s list also boasts the P&I debut of eighteen…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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Robinson awarded highest civilian honour in US
Original Source Mary Robinson is the founder and president of Realizing Rights, an Atlantic grantee. Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson has been awarded the highest civilian honour in the United States – the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Announcing the award at the White House…
Author: Belfast Telegraph
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6th Circuit favors Tenn. lethal injection process
by LUCAS L. JOHNSON II A federal appeals court on Thursday vacated a lower court’s ruling that Tennessee’s lethal injection process is unconstitutional. In 2007, the U.S. District Court in Nashville supported a claim by Edward Jerome Harbison, 54, that Tennessee’s lethal injection process violates…
Author: The Associated Press State & Local Wire