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Bear Market for Charities
A Harlem Education Project That Won Big Corporate Backing Now Faces Cutbacks as Donors Close Their Wallets Original Source By MIKE SPECTOR NEW YORK — Geoffrey Canada has spent decades building a strategy for saving poor children from crime-ridden streets and crumbling public schools. His…
Author: The Wall Street Journal
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Obama Appoints White House Speechwriting and Intergovernmental Affairs Heads
Original Source By Michael A. Fletcher President-elect Barack Obama continued rounding out his White House staff today, naming Jonathan Favreau director of speechwriting and Cecilia Munoz director of intergovernmental affairs. Favreau has worked for Obama since 2005, when he joined the president-elect’s Senate office as…
Author: The Washington Post
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The Shadow President
How John Podesta invented the Obama administration. by Michael Crowley The bright young think tank staffers at the progressive Center for American Progress (CAP) admire their boss, John Podesta. Podesta, who is also co-managing Barack Obama’s presidential transition team, possesses energy (he is a workaholic and marathon…
Author: The New Republic
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Victory for Liberty's Charge or Release Campaign
The Government has dropped plans for 42 days detention. Last night saw a resounding victory for Liberty’s long running Charge or Release campaign. Common sense and common decency prevailed as the Government dropped plans to detain terror suspects for 42 days without charge, following an…
Author: Liberty
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In Tight Times, Many Nonprofits Feel the Pinch as Contributions Dwindle
By GLENN COLLINS Could we have picked a worse time for a gala? asked Richard J. Moylan, president of Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, regretting the disappointing turnout for the institution’s fund-raising dinner on Friday night. He could have spoken for hundreds of nonprofits of all…
Author: The New York Times
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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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Millions of older Americans work longer, retire later;
Longer lives, inadequate savings and a slowing economy are among the reasons why more people are working past the average retirement age of 63. by Dave Carpenter Americans are changing the game plan for retirement, with millions laboring right past the traditional retirement age and…
Author: Associated Press
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Laboring longer a growing trend for Americans
by Dave Carpenter Americans are changing the game plan for retirement, with millions laboring right past the traditional retirement age and working into their late 60s and beyond. While the average retirement age remains 63, that standard may soon be going the way of the…
Author: The Associated Press
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A California financier emerges as one of the nation's most prolific philanthropists
Bernard Osher, called the ‘quiet giver,’ donates large sums to education and the arts. Original Source Reporter Paul Van Slambrouck discusses the character of ‘The Quiet Philanthropist.’ From a distance, the philanthropic world can look much like the for-profit world. The metrics that seem to…
Author: The Christian Science Monitor
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Immigrant arrests sever parents, children
Original Source Brothers Ismael, Luis and Edwin Valeriano are U.S. citizens, but their lives have been upended by the arrest of their father as part of an escalating crackdown on illegal immigrants. In March, the boys’ 38-year-old father, Ismael Valeriano, a single parent from Mexico…
Author: Associated Press State & Local Wire