Results List
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Miami-Dade Voters Give a Great Gift to Children, Say Yes to The Children's Trust
Source: The Children's Trust
Original Source Miami, FL Aug. 27, 2008 Miami-Dade County voters gave a huge thumbs up to children and families by voting Tuesday to reauthorize The Children's Trust. More than 85 percent of voters approved the referendum to permanently establish The Children's Trust as the children's…
Resource type: News
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Black Caucus highlights disparages and suggests philanthropic solutions
Source: The Royal Gazette (Bermuda)
Original Source By Robyn Skinner The community's health can be gauged by how black men and boys are doing and philanthropic organisations need to understand why there are still barriers to helping them. That's why last week a group of leaders in their fields met…
Resource type: News
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Alternative medicines to be regulated
Source: Business Day
by Tamar Kahn CAPE TOWN - The health department has published a fresh set of draft regulations for complementary medicines, a move intended to give consumers assurance that the products they purchase are safe, effective and of good quality. Currently, the complementary medicines market is…
Resource type: News
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Md. Panel Hears Views On Death Penalty; Urban Institute Study Says Capital Cases Cost Much More
Source: The Washington Post
by John Wagner The cost associated with prosecuting a case in Maryland in which the death penalty is imposed is on average $1.9 million more than the cost of a similar case in which capital punishment is not sought, a researcher told a state commission…
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$70 Million Effort Seeks New Safety Net for Workers
Source: The New York Times
by STEVEN GREENHOUSE The Rockefeller Foundation's annual report is chock-full of photographs of exotic lands and details of its grants to fight disease in Cambodia and help African farmers improve their soil. It is part of the foundation's focus on what it calls smart globalization.…
Resource type: News
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Grey areas undermine tax reform of unwedded bliss
Source: The Irish Independent
Original Source By Fionnan Sheahan COHABITING couples are the fastest growing family type in the country. According to the last Census, the total number of cohabiting couples was 121,800 in 2006 up from 77,600 in 2002. They represented 11.6pc of all family units in 2006…
Resource type: News
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Obama's No-Brainer on Education
Source: Newsweek
Moderates would respond to a Democrat willing to slip the ideological stranglehold of a liberal interest group. Original Source by Jonathan Alter One of the best things about the democratic primaries was that horse-race-obsessed reporters rarely asked the candidates about education. Why was that good?…
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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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Charter Schools' Big Experiment
Source: The Washington Post
New Orleans's Post-Katrina Test May Offer Lessons for Ailing Systems Original Source By Jay Mathews Washington Post Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS The storm that swamped this city three years ago also effectively swept away a public school system with a dismal record and faint prospects…
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Another Letter from South Africa: A Young Man’s Journey Out of Poverty Lifts Others Along the Way
Source: Gara LaMarche
Themba Mngomezulu stood on a hillside on his family’s land, in Ingwavuma, in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, not far from the border of Swaziland, and told us his story. Not far away, his grandmother sat on a straw mat on the floor of her one-room…
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