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It is a duty of yours, mine and the state's to end all prejudice
Source: Cape Argus (South Africa)
Treatment Action Campaign, the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project and the Triangle Project are Atlantic grantees. She loved soccer and represented South Africa in our women's soccer team, Banyana Banyana. On April 28, 2008, Eudy Simelane was raped, stabbed 25 times, robbed and murdered because…
Resource type: News
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Advocacy by 13 N.C. Nonprofits Brings Statewide Benefits
Source: National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP)
Washington, D.C. (5/07/2009) - For every dollar that foundations and other funding sources gave to support advocacy, organizing and civic engagement efforts by 13 nonprofit organizations in North Carolina, state residents received $89 in benefits. This is one of the findings in a new report…
Resource type: News
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Communities in Schools Mentoring is a golden opportunity
Source: Montgomery Herald
Montgomery Herald Communities in Schools is an Atlantic grantee. by Linda Beaulieu The Golden Opportunity Mentoring Program truly is a golden opportunity for the 83 youngsters in grades four through eight who currently have mentors. CIS records from last school year provide hard evidence of…
Resource type: News
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Savvy Schools
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Community colleges are taking the lead in helping older adults find new directions -- and new jobs by KELLY GREENE Ted English, age 62, a restaurant owner in Rapid City, S.D., had been thinking about changing careers, perhaps taking a job in travel or tourism.…
Resource type: News
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Harlem Agency Hopes to End Poverty Cycle
Source: ABC News
'Baby College' Teaches Parents Child-Rearing Skills Original Source Click here to view the 3 minute video segment. By BILL WEIR and TRACEY MARX As the nation roils with fear of poverty and political debates over socialization and the free market, there is one man who has…
Resource type: News
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AGE to age: Young, old to address community needs
Source: Proctor Journal
Original Source A program bringing young people, adults, education, faith communities and civic and business organizations together continues Thurs., March 19 at Bay View Elementary school. Billed as “An Intergenerational Community Conversation,” the group will discuss what life is like as a teenager now and…
Resource type: News
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Seven "International Trailblazers" To Be Awarded at MIPDOC 2009
Source: MIPDOC
Paris, 26 February 2009 MIPDOC, the international showcase for documentary screenings has named seven directors, selected for their creativity, innovation and personal vision in the world of documentary making, to receive International Trailblazer awards at MIPDOC 2009. This year's event runs from 28-29 March, at…
Resource type: News
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Invest in families to keep kids in school
Source: The Carrboro Citizen
Original Source By Chris Fitzsimon Speaker Joe Hackney presided at a news conference with fellow House Democrats Tuesday to announce that the lawmakers were renewing their commitment made two years ago to improve the state’s high school graduation rate, though Hackney acknowledged that it’s not…
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Innovative Grantmaking Gives Voice to the Marginalised
Source: Multi Agency Grants Initiative
This case study describes how a group of large donors found an effective means to collaborate to make grants to small, grassroots organisations in South Africa through the Multi Agency Grant Initiative. The story of the Multi Agency Grants Initiative (MAGI) in South Africa (2006-2008)…
Resource type: Case Study
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Telling the Story About South Africa's Rural Poor
Source: Gara LaMarche
The transition from apartheid to the new South Africa is rightfully viewed as one of the major advances in human history toward equality and democracy. But as I have written here before, many problems still exist: the South African government became an object of ridicule,…
Resource type: News