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Older people reap benefits of lifelong learning
Don’t Stop me Now A Study on the Lifelong Learning Needs of Older People, carried out by Aontas, the Irish National Adult Learning Organisation, has revealed some interesting findings. The research, to be published in full later this year, involved focus group sessions and surveys…
Author: Sunday Business Post (Ireland)
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Baby boomers find meaning in 'encore careers' at nonprofit groups
Original Source By BOB MOOS Move over, Bill Gates. You’ve got company. The former full-time executive of Microsoft and present co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is just one of an estimated 1.1 million baby boomers who have traded jobs in the corporate…
Author: The Dallas Morning News
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Earlier aid for HIV patients could save unborn babies
Original Source by Khopotso Bodibe The Department of Health may in future allow people living with HIV to get antiretroviral drugs earlier. At present, people relying on public sector health can only get the medication when their CD4 count, which measures the level of immunity…
Author: Pretoria News (South Africa)
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Philanthropy 2.0
Original Source A year ago, Jean and Steve Case’s teenage daughter asked a question that inspired her parents to reassess their entire approach to philanthropy. Steve, one of the cofounders of AOL, had taken her- one of his five children-to mingle with Bill Clinton and…
Author: Worth Magazine
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Donating, With Care
Now More Cautious, Some Are Keeping Philanthropy Closer to Home Donating, With Care Now More Cautious, Some Are Keeping Philanthropy Closer to Home By Kathleen Day Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 19, 2006; F01 Americans give generously, but that charitable spirit recently has been…
Author: Washington Post
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Lessons on School Discipline, from South Carolina to NYC
By Miaija Jawara and Kesi Foster Mayor Bill de Blasio announcing a contract deal last year with the union that represents school safety agents. (Photo: Rob Bennett/Mayoral Photography Office) When the world saw the recent video of a white police officer brutalizing a young black…
Author: City & State
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Feeney Awarded Inaugural International Philanthropy Medal
One of Australia’s biggest philanthropic benefactors, Charles “Chuck” Feeney, is the inaugural recipient of a prestigious new award recognizing global generosity. Feeney, an international business leader and philanthropist who made his fortune worth billions and quietly gave it all away, is the first person to…
Author: Pro Bono Australia
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The Transformer: Chuck Feeney '56 Champions the Pleasure of Giving While Living
Rendering of a portion of the future Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, showing the campus lawn, the first academic building (left) and the co-location buidling. Rendering: Luke Yoo/Morphosis By Emily Sanders Hopkins He is Cornell University’s biggest donor. Chuck Feeney ’56. Image: Fennell Photography…
Author: Ezra: Cornell's Quarterly Magazine
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'Pretty Much a Catastrophe': Anna Deavere Smith and the Disaster of the School-to-Prison Pipeline
MSNBC video: Focusing on the school-to-prison pipeline By Emily Wilson Photo Credit: iofoto / Shutterstock.com In the last 20 years, there has been a shocking rise in the number of schools that embrace zero tolerance policies that regularly leave students suspended, expelled or arrested for the…
Author: AlterNet
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Health Activism: The Struggle Continues
By Rebecca Davis The Ministry of Health is often cited as one of the government departments where effective leadership in recent years has made a real, positive impact. But in a public discussion on Sunday evening in Cape Town, a number of South African health…
Author: Daily Maverick