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Dropout prevention worthy investment
Source: San Antonio Express-News
If the high school dropout rate continues at current levels, the state will be in serious trouble in the not so distant future as an uneducated workforce grows. The estimated number of Texas students at risk of not graduating exceeds two million. Those two million…
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$125 million donation for new UCSF hospital
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle
Original Source by Victoria Colliver, Chronicle Staff Writer UCSF Medical Center has received a $125 million donation, among the largest in its history, to help build a planned $1.68 billion hospital to provide services to women, children and cancer patients near its Mission Bay biomedical complex,…
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Understanding Obama's education vision
Source: MSNBC First Read
Original Source From NBC's Chuck Todd The White House beat is more than just what happens at the Oval Office. We're doing out best to cover every department and every utterance made by members of President Obama's Cabinet. To that end, here are the most…
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New Guidelines Target U.S. Foundation Practices
Source: National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
WASHINGTON, March 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Grantmakers are not delivering as much social benefit as they could, according to the new Criteria for Philanthropy at Its Best: Benchmarks to Assess and Enhance Grantmaker Impact by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. The criteria, to be released…
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Op-Ed: Our Greatest National Shame
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Op-Ed Columnist So maybe I was wrong. I used to consider health care our greatest national shame, considering that we spend twice as much on medical care as many European nations, yet American children are twice as likely to die before…
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Senate Stimulus Cuts Fall Heavily on Kids
Source: First Focus
WASHINGTON, DC Today, First Focus, a bipartisan children's advocacy organization, expressed serious disappointment over the proposed deal in the United States Senate regarding the economic recovery package. Specifically, a recent analysis by the organization has found that in the Senate, more that 45 percent of…
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Congressman Yarmuth Calls for Creation of White House Office on Children and Youth
Source: Forum for Youth Investment
Plan would get kids much-needed attention, streamline bureaucracy, cut govt. waste http://www.forumforyouthinvestment.org/node/674 The Forum for Youth Investment is delighted that Congressman Yarmuth sent a letter to President Obama days after he took office calling for him to issue an executive order that would create a White House…
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Adelante Mujeres launches education project
Source: The Hillsboro Argus
Original Source FOREST GROVE - Adelante Mujeres is launching a new project, Champions for Early Childhood Education, focused on enhancing the services of Adelante Mujeres and partner project, PODER Family Literacy, by matching local baby boomers to low-income, Spanish-speaking immigrant children. The program was made…
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Grant to help center expand program to the national level
Source: Boston College Heights
Original Source By: Ashley Schneider The Atlantic Philanthropies awarded a $3.5 million grant to Kevin Mahoney, a professor in the graduate school of social work and director of the Center for the Study of Home and Community Life (CSHCL), to help the center's Cash & Counseling Program…
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Bear Market for Charities
Source: The Wall Street Journal
A Harlem Education Project That Won Big Corporate Backing Now Faces Cutbacks as Donors Close Their Wallets Original Source By MIKE SPECTOR NEW YORK -- Geoffrey Canada has spent decades building a strategy for saving poor children from crime-ridden streets and crumbling public schools. His…
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