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By Patsy McGarry The public are being asked to identify the social issues and/or interventions that have the most potential for a scheme of what are called social impact bonds. A social impact bond (SIB) is a public-private contract in which the relevant public-sector entity agrees…

By Oliver Lee You don't need to be Angelina Jolie or Bono to be a great humanitarian. Nothing against celebri-tarians, of course. It can't be easy galavanting across the globe, giving speeches for good causes, paparazzi pouncing every time you hug a malnourished Sudanese child.…

By: National Council on Aging CDCUs to Work with Regional Economic Security Centers to Assist Vulnerable Older Adults According to research from the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (Federation) and the National Council on Aging (NCOA), older adults in the United States are…

By David WheelerSydney–How do you take the “culture of giving” that fund raisers believe can be found in every country, and turn that culture to the advantage of universities? Australia has been seeking its own answer to that question. While it is old news that…

By ALISON HEALY. IF PEOPLE do not vote in the general election, then they lose the right to criticise, US civil rights activist Rev Jesse Jackson has told an audience in Dublin. He said people should vote for politicians they could trust, but when asked…

Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, discussed his concerns about a growing need for a stronger moral framework for philanthropy at the Starr Forum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.   Forty-five years ago, a young aide named Bill Moyers sat in the…

By Gara LaMarche.  In March, I was honored to watch President Obama's bill signing for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with a group of labor leaders and reform activists. Around me were advocates who had worked for months -- in some cases decades…

Several of the staff of the Hue Central Hospital were kind enough to come to work last Sunday morning to give my Atlantic colleagues and me a tour of what has become a world-class facility in the ten years since our Founding Chairman, Chuck Feeney,…

By Tony Moore. Who is Charles "Chuck" Feeney and why is Premier Anna Bligh so keen to be photographed with him?The answer is a $102 million gift the Irish-American billionaire yesterday gave to three Queensland medical research centres to help scientists fight cancer and develop vaccines…

By Abigail Trafford "The president believes it's always the young who lead," said David Axelrod, a top adviser to President Obama, during the president's recent trip to Europe. One of the goals of the trip was to generate more leadership among young people on global…