Results List
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Employers learning gray matters
Source: The Arizona Republic
by Betty Beard More employers now realize they need to recruit and retrain older workers -- especially Baby Boomers. But many aren't sure how to go about that. And at the same time, mature applicants are seeking jobs in drastically changed workplaces that have gone…
Resource type: News
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Help for the Helpers
Source: The Baltimore Sun
OUR VIEW: AS BALTIMORE'S EXPERIENCE SUGGESTS, A NEW NATIONAL SERVICE PROGRAM WOULD OFFER DIVIDENDS ACROSS THE AGES 27 Sep 2008 When Shirley Cherry was helping out at Guilford Elementary School a couple of years ago, a boy spoke rudely to her, and his teacher made…
Resource type: News
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Support This Bill
Source: Time Magazine
Original Source By Edward M. Kennedy and Orrin Hatch Imagine the enormous difference it would make to our communities and nation if every American served for a year with a community-service group, nonprofit enterprise or faith-based organization. This month we're introducing in the Senate the…
Resource type: News
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NIYLP: Changing Young Lives in Big Ways
Source: Gallup Journey Magazine
Original Source by H. Haveman The National Indian Youth Leadership Project (NIYLP) is an American Indian-owned and -operated, nonprofit organization that has been working with at-risk youth for over twenty-five years. Though working out of Gallup for the majority of that time, NIYLP's programs have…
Resource type: News
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Action Among Partnerships, Local Health Care Leadership
Source: San Fernando Valley Business Journal
Original Source by Nadra Kareem, San Fernando Valley Business Journal StaffSenior Services Partnership Partners in Care Foundation, a nonprofit healthcare and social services organization in San Fernando, has announced that it will partner with the California Association of Physician Groups to expand the Healthier Living…
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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Some Reflections on Philanthropy and Government
Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, gives the Keynote Address at the Annual Meeting of the United Neighborhood Houses in New York City. I appreciate the invitation to share some thoughts with the board and staff members of the settlement houses and other…
Resource type: Speech
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Coalition: Health insurance companies go too far; National push begins for affordable care
Source: The Columbus Dispatch
Original Source By Catherine Candisky Nearly every week after her mother was killed and her father was gravely injured in a car crash, Stephanie Beck Borden battled her parents' insurance company. He was ready to go home, insurance officials insisted. But he couldn't walk and…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic Philanthropies SVP Colin McCrea interviewed on the Pat Kenny Show, RTE (Ireland)
Source: Pat Kenny Show, RTE
Colin McCrea, SVP, Atlantic Philanthropies was interviewed on the Pat Kenny Show on Ireland's National Radio station (RTE) recently in a discussion on philanthropy. The morning chat show of 8 July, 2008, broadcast an interview exploring the field of philanthropy and the role it plays…
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Higher Achievement Receives $3 Million From Atlantic Philanthropies to Expand Into Baltimore
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source Higher Achievement, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that provides middle school children from underserved areas year-round academic enrichment programs, has announced a three-year, $3 million grant from Atlantic Philanthropies to help expand its out-of-school-time (OST) programs to Baltimore. The grant will enable the organization,…
Resource type: News