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August 4th Teleconference: How Can Funders Support Promise Neighborhoods?
Join Us for a National Teleconference: Keeping Our Promise: How Can Funders Support Promise Neighborhoods to Increase Educational Opportunity in Distressed Communities? Date: Wednesday, August 4, 2010 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 pm, EDT The U.S. Department of Education’s Promise Neighborhoods Program aims to significantly improve…
Author: Foundation Center
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Victim's race skews death penalty
Someone accused of killing a white person in North Carolina is nearly three times as likely to get the death penalty than someone accused of killing a black person, according to a study released Thursday by two researchers who looked at death sentences over a…
Author: News Observer
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Int’l organisations help upgrade VNIO
The Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) from the US and the Australia’s Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF) have provided more than US$2 million to help improve the Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology (VNIO). The focus of a two-year project will be on four main fields: developing a training…
Author: VOV News
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Research funding vital for economy
By Conor O’Carroll. Last Friday the Government continued its commitment to investing in research with more than EUR296 million to develop infrastructure and research capacity across the higher education sector. With universities and institutes of technology bringing in EUR63 million from private and international competitive…
Author: The Irish Times
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Xenophobia downplayed, but government quietly taking it seriously
By Wilson Johwa. THE government may have chosen to deny the existence of xenophobic violence but was better prepared for it than in 2008, says Gerald Kraak, South African head of the US foundation Atlantic Philanthropies. After the 2008 attacks it commissioned a study whose…
Author: Business Day
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President Signs Civil Partnership Bill into Law: A great day for Ireland
Today the 19th of July, the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, signed the Civil Partnership Bill into law. “This is a great day for Ireland. Lesbian and gay people, their parents, families, friends neighbours, colleagues can now look forward to celebrating their civil partnerships in…
Author: Gay and Lesbian Equality Network
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FLAC welcomes decision to quash jury ban on deaf woman
No blanket exclusion of deaf jurors, but state should go further – FLAC (Free Legal Advice Centres), which represented deaf woman Joan Clarke, welcomed the ruling of the High Court today quashing a decision of the Galway County Registrar to “excuse” Ms Clarke from jury service.…
Author: Free Legal Advice Centres
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Runners to pound the pavement for hospice
HUNDREDS of runners are set to take to the roads around Youghal next Sunday in a bid to raise funds for one of Cork’s best known charities. Youghal Athletic Club and local man Martin Drake have come together to organise a four-mile charity run with…
Author: Evening Echo
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US congressmen voice support for VN’s AO victims
Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment Eni F.H. Faleomavaega and congressman Bob Filner affirmed the support during meetings with a delegation of the Vietnam Association for Victims of…
Author: Saigon Giai Phong
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Gay campaigners deserve huge praise as we step into the future
By Noel Whelan. Extraordinary patience has finally paid off and constitutional change will one day follow. The overwhelming parliamentary support witnessed again this week for the legalisation of same sex civil partnerships arises from the basic decency and generosity of the Irish people. Politicians across…
Author: The Irish Times
