Results List
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Open Society Foundations
$10,000,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Irish Gerontological Society
$606,217
Resource type: Grantee
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The Alliance for a Just Society
$800,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Charities Aid Foundation – Southern Africa
$136,246
Resource type: Grantee
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Open Society Institute – Baltimore
$1,100,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Task to Aid Self-Esteem Lifts Grades for Some
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By BENEDICT CAREY Some seventh graders who were struggling in class did significantly better after performing a series of brief confidence-building writing exercises, and the improvements continued through eighth grade, researchers reported Thursday. The students who benefited most were blacks who were doing…
Resource type: News
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University of New South Wales, Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society
$9,682,501
Resource type: Grantee
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Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (Dublin)
$849,819
Resource type: Grantee
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Separating generations a bad idea; When young, old live together, it's better for society.
Source: Newsday (New York)
by Susanne Bleiberg Seperson and Paul Arfin Susanne Bleiberg Seperson is director of the Center for Intergenerational Policy and Practice at Dowling College. Paul Arfin is president and chief executive of Intergenerational Strategies, a nonprofit charitable organization. President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel,…
Resource type: News
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Starting Over, With a Second Career Goal of Changing Society
By Steve Lohr Harvard kicked off a small but ambitious experiment this week that it hopes will become a new “third stage” of university education. For the student-fellows in the program, most in their 50s and early 60s, the goal is a second-act career in…
Resource type: News