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A supplementary budget for the Republic of Ireland contains tough but necessary measures to set the country on the road to recovery after a difficult recession, said Brian Cowen, Taoiseach for the Republic of Ireland, in this speech. Original Source Ceann Comhairle Yesterday, the Minister…

By Robin Hindery UCSF has received one of the largest gifts in its 145-year history $125 million as the lead funding for a state-of-the-art medical center at the Mission Bay campus. The transformative donation injects a shot of adrenaline into an ambitious project that will…

Original Source By Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin In 1994, we founded KIPP, the Knowledge Is Power Program, by starting one middle school in the South Bronx and one in Houston. Today, KIPP is a growing network of 66 public charter schools serving 17,000 children…

$1.9 Million Grant to Improve Afterschool Professional Development and ProgramsNEWS RELEASE The Atlantic Philanthropies Awards Foundations' Center for Afterschool and Community Education 1.9 Million Grant to Improve Afterschool Professional Development and ProgramsMoorestown, NJ, January 9, 2006 CACE, the Center for Afterschool and Community Education at…

By The New York Times Following is the first set of answers from Lucy N. Friedman, the president of a nonprofit organization that provides children with after-school programs. We are no longer accepting questions on this feature. Read Ms. Friedman’s biography. Read the second set…

This morning Senators John McCain and Barack Obama suspended their intense competition for the Presidency to visit Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, in tribute to those who lost their lives on a brilliantly sunny New York morning seven years ago today. And tonight they will…

Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, gives the Keynote Address at the Annual Meeting of the United Neighborhood Houses in New York City. I appreciate the invitation to share some thoughts with the board and staff members of the settlement houses and other…

Original Source Retirees looking for meaning and ways to use their skills and experience and nonprofits looking for seasoned talent have been slow to connect. But their parallel paths are now bending into arcs that create can-do circles, and ReServe, with a grant from the…

After-school programs learn how to make kids conversant in the language of the digital age. Original Source by Deborah Huso OK, so you have computers in your after-school program. Now, what do the kids do with them? If they do some Web research and play…

At the beginning of every nonprofit movement - whether it succeeds or fails - the founders probably feel like Odysseus. No matter how much momentum you start with, and how many battles you win in creating an idea and whipping up enthusiasm for it, actually…