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Frankly, they don't give a damn
By Miriam Steffens When it comes to philanthropy, many seriously wealthy Australians have deep pockets and short arms. IN THE midst of an unprecedented mining boom that’s creating more millionaires than ever, rising standards of living and wealth, it is our dark little secret. Australian…
Author: The Sydney Morning Herald
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Here’s Why Funders Should Support Advocacy
Photo: Treatment Action Campaign Advocacy is a central mechanism for driving social change. As Mark Heywood, Executive Director of Section 27 says: “Advocacy is not a handful of individuals shouting from the rooftops. It is about effective community education, community mobilisation and community empowerment around…
Author: Gillian Mitchell, Gabrielle Ritchie and Melanie Judge
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Giving While Living: Chuck Feeney’s Role in This World
The term “Giving While Living” is globally associated with Chuck Feeney, the Founding Chair of The Atlantic Philanthropies, a major international philanthropic foundation. He is the “anonymous donor”, a man who lives to give away billions. Photo: Charles Feeney – Atlantic Philanthropies Founding Chairman…
Author: Daily Maverick
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National policy planning needs to take a 'life course' perspective
By Lorna Siggins. NATIONAL policy planning should take a “life course” perspective from birth to old age, an NUI Galway (NUIG) report has found. The research by NUIG’s Irish Centre for Social Gerontology and School of Business and Economics says that planning should extend as…
Author: The Irish Times
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New scholarship created
Original Source Cummings Zuill is a member of the Atlantic Philanthropies Board of Directors. The Centre on Philanthropy is an Atlantic grantee. By Ruth O’Kelly-Lynch A new scholarship for charity workers and those working with in faith-based associations has been created. The Cummings V. Zuill Leadership…
Author: Royal Gazette (Bermuda)
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Charity workers to get educational aid
Cummings Zuill thought he was going to the headquarters of ACE Ltd. yesterday to attend a diversity workshop. Instead he arrived to find he was being honoured with the establishment in his name of a $2 million education endowment for people in the non-profit sector.…
Author: The Royal Gazette
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Not Just a Numbers Game: Budget Cuts Threaten Those Already Struggling
“Oh, I really feel we’ve been led up the garden path…We are the people that worked. We put this country on its feet, and we’re the people that are being hit every which way.” – Diane, age 81, in Dublin, Ireland Across many of the geographies…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Study to examine cross-border care
The Centre for Cross Border Studies is an Atlantic grantee. A new cross-border study will revisit the controversial Teamwork report that recommended just one public hospital in the northeast with 24/7 clinical services. As staff in the region are digesting the news that emergency services,…
Author: Irish Medical Times
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Research sheds new light on why pancreatic cancer drugs fail
Original Source An international team of scientists, led by researchers based at the Cambridge Research Institute, have discovered a new mechanism that may explain why pancreatic cancer patients are often resistant to a common chemotherapy treatment, germcitabine. The study, published in the journal Science today,…
Author: University of Cambridge
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Families 'locked in poverty cycle'
Better education levels and more economic resources mean we have an awesome responsibility to ensure that children of all backgrounds benefit from “the rising tide”, President Mary McAleese said yesterday. She paid tribute to the work of staff at a Galway-based family research centre established…
Author: Irish Times