Results List
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Six Entrepreneurs Over 60 Win $100,000 Purpose Prizes for Innovation, Extraordinary Contribution in Encore Careers
Nine Others Win $10,000 Each, as Experienced Adults Prove to be an Unexpected Source of Social Innovation SAN FRANCISCO – One winner put his mechanical know-how to work and invented a $28 machine to help rural African villagers shell peanuts more efficiently. Another, in Fargo,…
Author: Civic Ventures
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Next-Gen Givers
Generous Gen-Xers are putting their own spin on charitable giving, combining their desire to achieve with their desire to do good. Original Source By SUZANNE MCGEE THE STORY IN PHILANTHROPY THIS HOLIDAY SEASON is becoming all too familiar. Individuals, foundations and corporations are all scaling…
Author: Barrons
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Help for the Helpers
OUR VIEW: AS BALTIMORE’S EXPERIENCE SUGGESTS, A NEW NATIONAL SERVICE PROGRAM WOULD OFFER DIVIDENDS ACROSS THE AGES 27 Sep 2008 When Shirley Cherry was helping out at Guilford Elementary School a couple of years ago, a boy spoke rudely to her, and his teacher made…
Author: The Baltimore Sun
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Child protection groups criticise HSE cutbacks
by CARL O’BRIEN, Social Affairs Correspondent CHILD PROTECTION groups warned yesterday that vulnerable young people will be at risk as a result of the Health Service Executive’s (HSE) decision to suspend plans for a 24-hour social care service. The HSE wrote to unions in the…
Author: The Irish Times
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NIYLP: Changing Young Lives in Big Ways
Original Source by H. Haveman The National Indian Youth Leadership Project (NIYLP) is an American Indian-owned and -operated, nonprofit organization that has been working with at-risk youth for over twenty-five years. Though working out of Gallup for the majority of that time, NIYLP’s programs have…
Author: Gallup Journey Magazine
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Dublin mayor's strategy aims to tap into Vast experience' of older people
by KITTY HOLLAND A STRATEGY to get older people more involved in volunteering and to tap into their “vast experience” is being drawn up and will be published in coming months, the Lord Mayor of Dublin said yesterday. Cllr Eibhlin Byrne, who was speaking at…
Author: Irish Times
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HSE to prioritise mental health services
THE HSE has decided to prioritise the child and adolescent mental health services and is in the process of recruiting 12 consultant child and adolescent psychiatrists. In addition, the HSE announced it was engaged in a recruitment process for 140 posts in the therapeutic areas,…
Author: Irish Examiner
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Talking Down and Stepping Up
Original Source Op-Ed Columnist By CHARLES M. BLOW The Rev. Jesse Jackson wants to do what to Barack Obama? Ouch! And why? Because he thinks Mr. Obama’s speeches on fatherhood have been too hard on black men and not hard enough on The Man? I’m…
Author: The New York Times (Op-Ed)
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Refugees Denied Access to Health Care
Original Source By Kristin Palitza Durban Refugees and migrants do not have adequate access to health care services in South Africa, aid organisations and NGOs say. This is particularly detrimental for those who are HIV-positive and in need of continuous antiretroviral (ARV) medication: interrupted treatment…
Author: Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
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Relationships: MetisNet and The Atlantic Philanthropies
Original Source With a strategy focused on disadvantaged children, The Atlantic Philanthropies has partnered with MetisNet on a project surrounding the youth development field. On behalf of Atlantic, Chris Sturgis studied how to strengthen the field, identifying ways in which funders can work more effectively…
Author: MetisNet