Results List
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Coalition demands health before profits
Source: The Orlando Sentinel
Original Source by Jeannette Rivera-lyles, Sentinel Staff Writer A group of Central Florida community leaders and residents announced Tuesday that they will be part of a $40 million grass-roots campaign to push for affordable health care. Health Care for America Now, a national coalition of…
Resource type: News
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In Act 2 of Life, Doing Work That Matters
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By Jane E. Brody Dr. Peter I. Pressman decided to retire in 2003 after 40 years as a New York breast cancer surgeon much admired by his patients for the time and skill he devoted to them and their families. He was 68,…
Resource type: News
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Summer job market especially tough for poor kids
Source: Associated Press
Original Source By ELLEN SIMON, AP Business Writer When Theodor Gervais was 14, he took a summer job selling cell phone covers in Brooklyn for $100 a month, sitting at a table outside a phone store in what he describes as "somewhat of a bad…
Resource type: News
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Charter Schools' Big Experiment
Source: The Washington Post
New Orleans's Post-Katrina Test May Offer Lessons for Ailing Systems Original Source By Jay Mathews Washington Post Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS The storm that swamped this city three years ago also effectively swept away a public school system with a dismal record and faint prospects…
Resource type: News
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Another Letter from South Africa: A Young Man’s Journey Out of Poverty Lifts Others Along the Way
Source: Gara LaMarche
Themba Mngomezulu stood on a hillside on his family’s land, in Ingwavuma, in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, not far from the border of Swaziland, and told us his story. Not far away, his grandmother sat on a straw mat on the floor of her one-room…
Resource type: News
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Joint Appeal by Civil Society in South Africa to the UN & UNHCR
It is now more than 3 weeks since widespread xenophobic terror against foreign nationals has erupted in provinces across South Africa. To date, over 20,000 people in the Western Cape have been displaced, some are staying in community halls and local shelters, but many have…
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Flames of xenophobic hatred burn in Gauteng
Source: Business Day
Original Source by Ernest Mabuza THE violence that started as isolated attacks on foreigners in northern Johannesburg's Alexandra township last week had by yesterday turned into a ring that encircled half of the city and spread into the city centre. A drive west from Cleveland…
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Growing Up Fast
Source: Philanthropy Magazine
Will Houston's charter school expansion revolutionize urban education? Original Source by Jay Mathews It all began with the waiting lists. At Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, long waiting lists are seen as evidence of high standards and prestige. But long waiting lists were the cause of…
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Talent in Philanthropy
Newspaper reporters, baseball pitching scouts, art dealers and movie studio casting agents all provide models for philanthropy to follow in finding and cultivating talented programme officers, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech to the Foundation Impact Research Group, Terry…
Resource type: Speech
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Gaining a Voice After School
Source: Education Week
Why After-School Programs Are a Powerful Resource for English-Language Learners By Claudia Weisburd At the age of 14, Miguel, a recent immigrant from Mexico, is struggling to acclimate to a new school, language, and culture while also dealing with the social and developmental challenges of…
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