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'Uncertainty is the enemy of philanthropy'
Original Source By Barbara Hagenbaugh, USA TODAY WASHINGTON – It’s a challenging year for non-profits as a sluggish economy and rising prices make it more difficult for groups to raise money from cash-strapped families and businesses. Heading into the busiest fundraising time of year, non-profits’…
Author: USA Today
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Choosing Long-Term Care: Advice From an Expert
by Jane Gross For many of us, elderly parents and adult children alike, nothing is more complicated or consequential than understanding the differences between the many available permutations of long-term care, choosing which is most appropriate for our families and figuring out how to pay…
Author: The New York Times (The New Old Age Blog)
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Choosing Long-Term Care: Advice From an Expert
Original Source By Jane Gross For many of us, elderly parents and adult children alike, nothing is more complicated or consequential than understanding the differences between the many available permutations of long-term care, choosing which is most appropriate for our families and figuring out how…
Author: The New York Times
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Consensus on Learning Time Builds
by Catherine Gewertz Under enormous pressure to prepare students for a successful future-and fearful that standard school hours don’t offer enough time to do so-educators, policymakers, and community activists are adding more learning time to children’s lives. This issue is hot right now, said Bela…
Author: Education Week
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Lining Up That Second Career Takes Focus
by Kerry Hannon A New York investment banker becomes a small-town chef. A techie turns acupuncturist. An entrenched corporate exec accepts an early retirement package and converts to the ministry. Longer life spans, concerns about outliving retirement savings, and a desire to stay productive are…
Author: U.S. News & World Report
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FOIC ruling to face challenge
by Aaron Bray This July, the Elm City Resident Card celebrated both its one-year anniversary and a long-awaited court victory – although opponents are looking to cut the celebrations short. At the conclusion of months of testimony and hearings before the state Freedom of Information…
Author: Yale Daily News
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FOIC ruling to face challenge
Original Source By Aaron Bray, Staff Reporter This July, the Elm City Resident Card celebrated both its one-year anniversary and a long-awaited court victory – although opponents are looking to cut the celebrations short. At the conclusion of months of testimony and hearings before the…
Author: Yale Daily News
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Millions With Chronic Disease Get Little to No Treatment
Original Source By REED ABELSON Millions of Americans with chronic disease like diabetes or high blood pressure are not getting adequate treatment because they are among the nation’s growing ranks of uninsured. That is the central finding of a new study to be published Tuesday…
Author: The New York Times
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FOMACS Launches New Web Site
FOMACS web site Launched in March 2007, The Forum on Migration and Communications (FOMACS) is a collaborative public media project, producing film, photographic, digital storytelling, radio, animation and print stories on the topic of immigration and integration in Ireland, with the aim of reaching and…
Author: FOMACS
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Countries Make Push To Increase Eye Donors
Original Source By BINA VENKATARAMAN Eye donation recently got a new public face in Syria, where the Grand Mufti, the highest official of religious law, pledged to donate his corneas upon death to help one of the thousands of people waiting for transplants there. In…
Author: The New York Times
