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By Peter Cameron PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd is courting Australia's richest to take up where the federal Budget largesse left off. Mr. Rudd left little to chance. He enlisted Irish-American philanthropist Chuck Feeney to twist the tails of the rich and famous. Mr. Feeney was…

Original Source By Graeme Addison CRITICISM has been levelled at sections of the press - notably the Daily Sun and Sapa - for racially tinged reporting that allegedly fanned the fires of xenophobia. The accusation rests on the semantic bias of terms such as aliens…

Original Source THE GOVERNMENT is to announce an unprecedented €400 million in funding for research activity in third-level colleges, writes SEáN FLYNN, Education Editor The Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, and the Minister for Education, Batt O'Keeffe, are expected to announce details of the funding under the…

by Mark Hrywna Steve Gunderson has a prediction: Someone from the foundation world will be in Barack Obama’s administration. “There are an awful of my colleagues who have been in government before who are interested in returning,” said Gunderson, president and CEO of the Council…

Elder Economic Security Initiative blog WASHINGTON, D.C. Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) announces the expansion of its Elder Economic Security Initiative™ program to Michigan, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Minnesota. The Initiative is a national campaign to ensure that all older Americans are able to age…

By Stefanie Balogh Billionaire American Chuck Feeney, who has bankrolled much of Queensland's scientific and medical research, began his philanthropy in secret, writes Stefanie Balogh in New York FRUGAL to the point of eccentricity, Chuck Feeney travels the world economy class, wears a cheap plastic…

ANCHORS: CHARLES OSGOOD REPORTERS: CYNTHIA BOWERS CHARLES OSGOOD, host: Do unto others is a lot more than just words. Particularly for the publicity shy billionaire you're about to meet. Our Cynthia Bowers makes the introduction. CYNTHIA BOWERS reporting: On a day when a lot of…

From time to time, Atlantic Currents will be written by my colleagues at Atlantic and by the staff of organisations we support. This week, two programme executives with Atlantic’s U.S. Children & Youth Programme, Nicole Gallant and Marisha Wignaraja, share their thoughts about the importance…

By Michael Traill The recent and welcome examples of significant giving from some of Australia's newly minted billionaires highlight a real challenge: how to make that generosity deliver real impact? It is a problem for the ages. As Aristotle observed: To give away money is…

By Bob Moos Downsized and depressed, Leigh Hoes was approaching 50 and won-dering what to do with the rest of her work life. Then one day, as she leafed through a course catalog that had arrived in the mail from RichlandCollege in Dallas, the idea…