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Many Foundations Have Lost Almost One-Third of Their Assets, Chronicle Study Finds
Source: Chronicle of Philanthropy
Original Source By Noelle Barton and Ian Wilhelm The steep decline in the stock market last year triggered an erosion of foundation wealth, with many grant makers losing nearly one-third of their assets, according to a new Chronicle survey of some of the nation’s largest philanthropies. For…
Resource type: News
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Growling and Kicking for Social Change
It is time for Americans to bring together two powerful forces that are often disconnected - the desire to serve and the necessity to take social action to change systems that often give rise to the need for these services, said Gara LaMarche, President and…
Resource type: Speech
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Older Nonprofit Workers Get $100,000 Awards for Their Work
Source: Chronicle of Philanthropy
Original Source By Heather Joslyn Six nonprofit workers in their 60s and 70s today have been announced as the winners of the third annual Purpose Prizes, given by Civic Ventures, a nonprofit group in San Francisco that promotes projects that use the skills and experience of older…
Resource type: News
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Mid-Point Findings of National Evaluation Show Effectiveness of CIS Model
Source: Communities In Schools
Original Source The first results to emerge from the Communities In Schools National Evaluation, an independent, third-party study, indicate that the CIS Model of integrated student services has a positive impact on school-wide outcomes. Based on an in-depth analysis of 1,766 CIS schools and comparative analysis of…
Resource type: News
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UGA Odum School of Ecology faculty member honored for innovations after age 60
Source: University of Georgia
Athens, Ga. - Carl Jordan, senior research scientist at the University Of Georgia Odum School of Ecology, was recently designated as a 2008 Purpose Prize Fellow by Civic Ventures think tank. The Purpose Prize is awarded for people over 60 who are taking on society's…
Resource type: News
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Comcast gives big boost to Big Brothers Big Sisters
Source: The Philadelphia Daily News
by MENSAH M. DEAN Comcast and Big Brothers Big Sisters of America announced yesterday that they have joined to launch a youth-mentoring program in Philadelphia and plan to expand it across the country. Besides the program, called Beyond School Walls, the three-year, $10 million partnership…
Resource type: News
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U.S. Aid Urged for Education's Entrepreneurs
Source: Education Week
by Erik W. Robelen Washington With the presidential candidates both underscoring their support for entrepreneurial initiatives in education, policy experts are advancing ideas for helping such efforts flourish. In their Oct. 15 debate at Hofstra University, both Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Barack Obama…
Resource type: News
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Financial-Rescue Measure Includes Provisions for Rural Schools, Facilities
Source: Education Week
by Alyson Klein Congress has approved a $700 billion plan aimed at stabilizing credit markets that also included an authorization of long-sought funds for rural school districts. The financial-assistance package includes a reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act, which provides federal…
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Senator Specter Announces Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Will Receive $8.6 million for Truancy Prevention
Source: Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Funding from DoJ will reduce truancy, improve academics among underserved youth Washington D.C. Today U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) announced that the U.S. Department of Justice has awarded Big Brothers Big Sisters of America a significant grant to enhance its mentoring programs. The $8,615,548 grant,…
Resource type: News
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Parents Give Up Youths Under Law Meant for Babies
Source: The New York Times
by ERIK ECKHOLM OMAHA - The abandonments began on Sept. 1, when a mother left her 14-year-old son in a police station here. By Sept. 23, two more boys and one girl, ages 11 to 14, had been abandoned in hospitals in Omaha and Lincoln.…
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