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Back to Basics: More charities are seeking - and getting - operating support
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Original Source By Elizabeth Schwinn When Earl Martin Phalen started Building Educated Leaders for Life, a program that prepares Boston inner-city students for college, he found it easy to persuade foundations to pay for tutors and books. But few would give him money for the…
Resource type: News
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Dropout-Prevention Program Sees to The Basics of Life
Source: The Washington Post
Original Source By Jay Mathews Washington Post Staff Writer Word was getting around about the new problem solver on campus. So the mother tracked her down one recent day in a makeshift office on the second floor of a Southeast Washington public school. "I don't…
Resource type: News
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Later Life Is Ripe for Reinvention, Nonprofit Leader Asserts in New Book
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Marc Freedman has emerged over the past decade as the nonprofit world's most prominent crusader for a movement to reinvent retirement. In his new book, Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life, Mr. Freedman goes a step further: He envisions a…
Resource type: News
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Countries Make Push To Increase Eye Donors
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By BINA VENKATARAMAN Eye donation recently got a new public face in Syria, where the Grand Mufti, the highest official of religious law, pledged to donate his corneas upon death to help one of the thousands of people waiting for transplants there. In…
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Chuck Feeney, Cornell’s ‘third founder,’ dies at 92
Source: Cornell Chronicle
Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56, founding chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies and Cornell University’s most generous donor, died Oct. 9 in San Francisco. He was 92. Feeney, who quietly devoted his fortune to worldwide causes for decades, invested nearly $1 billion in Cornell through the…
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‘This is All Yours’: Opening Remarks for Isivivana Centre in Khayelitsha
David Sternlieb, Chief Operating Officer of The Atlantic Philanthropies, delivered these remarks at the October 13, 2016 opening of the Isivivana Centre in Khayelitsha township, outside Cape Town, South Africa. Acclaimed author and filmmaker, Zanemvula “Zakes” Mda led the ceremony, hailing the new center as…
Resource type: Speech
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Diane E. Meier, MD: From Early Lessons in Critical Thinking to 'Palliative Care Everywhere'
Source: The Asco Post
By Ronald Piana Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. —Helen Keller, Optimism, 1903 [caption id="attachment_44580" align="alignleft" width="292"] Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP is director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care.[/caption] Shortly past 8:00 AM…
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New $25m Fund for SA civil society groups working to advance constitutionalism
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Joint statement from the Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies Cape Town – Today the Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies announced the launch of a joint fund to support organisations promoting and advancing constitutionalism in…
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The Quiet Change-Maker
Source: Stanford Benefactor
Although Chuck Feeney has kept a low profile, his generosity has served as a catalyst for extraordinary scientific breakthroughs. Chuck Feeney, one of Stanford's most generous yet least-known supporters, is on track to give away more than $7.5 billion to causes worldwide. PHOTO: Pascal Perich…
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On Mission Bay’s 10th Anniversary, Hospital Construction Surges Forward
Source: UCSF
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="320"] The new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, shown in this December 2012 photo, continues to take shape across the street from the research campus. Construction of the 289-bed state-of-the-art hospital complex for children, women and cancer patients is moving along…
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