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How investors can banish social ills by putting money in state-backed bonds
Social impact bonds let you help ex-prisoners or former patients – and maybe see a good return DOES INVESTING in a scheme to keep repeat offenders out of prison sound like a good punt? What about one that would provide a Wii Fit to help…
Author: Irish Times
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Public Asked to Support 'Social Impact Bonds'
By Patsy McGarry The public are being asked to identify the social issues and/or interventions that have the most potential for a scheme of what are called social impact bonds. A social impact bond (SIB) is a public-private contract in which the relevant public-sector entity agrees…
Author: The Irish Times
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Intergenerational Bond Keeping Families Afloat During the Recession – New Report Finds
NUI Galway’s Professor Thomas Scharf; TCD Professor Virpi Timonen; Author, Roisin Ingle; Dr Catherine Conlon, and Gemma Carney, NUI Galway Family networks and a strong bond between young and old are keeping many Irish people afloat during the recession, according to new research on the…
Author: NUI Galway
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Bangladeshi Elders “Imprisoned” by U.S. Culture
By Abu Taher. Rezina Begum, 65, moved to New York just a year ago to live with her daughter’s family, only to find her lifelong perception of America as a living poem of happiness, pleasure and prosperity turned upside down. “What a life it is,”…
Author: New American Media
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Will the Financial Crisis Affect Giving?
By David Labrador in Pristina Foundations that support important programmes in the Balkans are suffering from the financial crisis in a way that makes their continued giving much more difficult. Much of the money that helps to develop the Balkans comes from private foundations that…
Author: Balkan Insight
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Financial-Rescue Measure Includes Provisions for Rural Schools, Facilities
by Alyson Klein Congress has approved a $700 billion plan aimed at stabilizing credit markets that also included an authorization of long-sought funds for rural school districts. The financial-assistance package includes a reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act, which provides federal…
Author: Education Week
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From Social Movement to Social Change: Philanthropy and School Discipline Reform
By David Callahan What role does philanthropy play in social movements? It’s an interesting question, and there’s a long history of funder involvement in different movements—from civil rights in the 1960s to LGBT rights in the past decade. Just last week, I wrote about the role of…
Author: Inside Philanthropy
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Atlantic Grantees Working for Human Rights
International Human Rights Day on 10 December marks the 63rd year of global recognition of our basic human equality and the continuous struggle to gain basic human rights for all individuals. Reconciliation & Human Rights made up the largest portion of Atlantic’s 2010 grantmaking programmes — funding…
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UC Regents approve breaking ground on UCSF’s $1.5 billion Mission Bay hospital
CHRIS RAUBER The Regents of the University of California voted Thursday to approve construction of a new $1.52 billion women’s, children’s, and cancer specialty hospital at UC San Francisco’s burgeoning Mission Bay campus. The Regents unanimously approved going ahead with the 289-bed hospital in their Sept. 16 board…
Author: San Francisco Business Times
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A “Life Course” Approach Breaks Down Silos to Strengthen Social Justice
I am just concluding almost a month working from Atlantic’s offices in Ireland. Among the many terrific experiences I’ve had was a visit to the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), where last week my colleagues and I met with the faculty of the Life…
Author: Gara LaMarche