Philly.comOn the BoardsPhilly.comSince 1974, Gift of Life has coordinated more than 37,000 lifesaving organ transplants and more than 550,000 tissue transplants, and serves as the link between donors and patients awaiting transplants. The Center City P…
Daily News & Analysis |
Somalia received Saudi aid the day it cut ties with Iran, reveals new document
Daily News & Analysis Somalia’s Finance Minister Mohamed Aden Ibrahim declined to comment on the pledges, but said any financial assistance from Saudi Arabia was not related to Mogadishu’s stance against Iran. “Our relationship with Saudi Arabia was long-standing and is not … |
New EuropeThe return of public investmentNew EuropeIt also lay behind early development assistance programs following World War II, when the World Bank and bilateral donors funneled resources to newly independent countries to finance large-scale projec…
BBC News |
Why Ethiopia is making a historic ‘master plan’ U-turn
BBC News Despite the impressive development, Ethiopia is ranked 173 out of the 187 nations surveyed in the last UN Human Development Index and has high poverty indexes, mainly related to the rising population. This has put immense pressure on Ethiopia’s natural … |
BU Today |
BU Alum among Five Americans Freed by Iran
BU Today In 2013, Trevithick cofounded SREO, a nonpartisan research center based in Turkey, whose mission, its website says, “is to develop practical strategies for stakeholders and donors engaged in Syria to effectively respond to the ongoing conflict and … |
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Daily Sabah |
UN: $40 billion of humanitarian aid needed due to conflicts, disasters
Daily Sabah Georgieva said zakat, the annual donation many Muslims are religiously required to make as a basic tenet of the Islamic faith, raises between $300 billion and $500 billion a year, and earmarking just 1 percent of that for humanitarian aid would go “a … |
NBCNews.com |
Family Faces Life-Threatening Heart Disease with Courage and Grace
NBCNews.com Stacy Bingham calls it her “D Day”: June 8, 2012. It’s the day she and her husband, Jason, learned that all five of their children had a deadly condition called dilated cardiomyopathy or markers for it. Their eldest daughter, Sierra, had received a … |
The Fiscal Times |
Trump’s Attacks on Cruz Take on a Desperate Tone
The Fiscal Times For his part, Cruz seemed to revel in the fact that Trump has been forced to respond to him, and insisted it was related to their relative standing in the polls. “I imagine it pulled him out of bed this morning and sent him tweeting and tweeting and … |
Philly.com |
How nonprofit newsrooms avoid conflicts – and their appearance
Philly.com What it didn’t say, and what infuriated teachers’ union leaders when they found out, was that some of the donors backed efforts to turn public schools into private and charter schools, the Washington Post reported. In 2010, critics … The nonprofit … |