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Moving Lives
Source: The Immigrant Council of Ireland
Moving Lives is an interactive portrait and online case study of the Immigrant Council of Ireland – an independent law centre located in Dublin working nationally and internationally. Moving Lives uses character-driven stories to lead you to behind-the-scenes reflection on the Council’s distinctive way of working across…
Resource type: News
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Draconian Asylum and Immigration System Needs Reform, Says Minister Shatter
Source: Irish Examiner
By Colette BrowneJustice Minister Alan Shatter has rightly decried the "inconvenient truth" that the State’s doors "were kept firmly closed to German Jewish families trying to flee from persecution and death" during the Holocaust.However, maybe he should ask himself if the State would be any…
Resource type: News
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Study exposes some some myths about school discipline
Source: The Washington Post
By Donna St. GeorgeHere’s one myth of school debunked: Harsh discipline is not always a reflection of the students in a particular school. It can be driven by those in charge.In a study of nearly a million Texas children described as an unprecedented look at…
Resource type: News
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Up Close: Blogging from South Africa
Source: Gara LaMarche and Jack Rosenthal
Night and a Day in QueenstownPosted by Gara LaMarche | 18 March 2011, South AfricaAs Jack has chronicled, we arrived in Queenstown, the final leg of our journey in the Eastern Cape, in the dark, around 7 p.m. This was a problem for two reasons. First, we’d…
Resource type: News
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America’s Future: Latino Child Well-Being in Numbers and Trends
Source: National Council of La Raza
This data book, produced by the National Council of La Raza with partial funding from The Atlantic Philanthropies, is a research and advocacy tool about the state of the 16 million Latino children under age 18, of which 92% are U.S. citizens. The report makes…
Resource type: Research Report
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Health reform challenge in Australia: Repairing the fundamentals and building on stronger foundations
Source: Prime Minister of Australia
Australia’s Prime Minister praises biomedical research at the University of Queensland as an example of what can be achieved when government, universities and philanthropy work together in partnership.It is good to be back home; it's good to be back in Brisbane; good to be back…
Resource type: News
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The Atlantic Philanthropies in South Africa: Some Reflections on the First 100 Days of the Zuma Government
Source: Gerald Kraak
This week Gerald Kraak, Programme Executive with Atlantic’s Reconciliation & Human Rights Programme and a veteran South African human rights advocate based in our Johannesburg office, shares his thoughts on the first 100 days of President Zuma’s administration. While international coverage of the April…
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Charitable Relations
Source: The American Prospect
Philanthropy adapts to the Obama era. Original Source by Lauren Foster Last November, two weeks after Barack Obama was elected president, Gara LaMarche took to the podium at the annual meeting of Southern California Grantmakers. The president and chief executive of The Atlantic Philanthropies was…
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Davies to join UQ population health
Source: The Australian
THE former deputy secretary of the Federal government's department of health and ageing, Philip Davies, will join the University of Queensland's school of population health as professor of health systems and policy. The Head of UQ's School of Population Health, Professor Alan Lopez, said that Professor…
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Taking Account of Race: A Philanthropic Imperative
Source: Gara LaMarche
President Obama’s election has unquestionably transformed discussions of race in the United States. At the recent Black Entertainment Television Honors Awards, Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina declared that now that an African-American man holds the most powerful position in the world, “Every child has…
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