Big Issue founder targets poverty
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Big Issue founder John Bird scraps plans to run for London mayor next year and will fight poverty instead.
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Former Lesley University president Margaret A. McKenna has a new post: Running the philanthropic arm of megaretailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The Bentonville, Ark., company said yesterday it hired McKenna to run its foundation, which last year doled out more than $270 million to charities.
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For organizers of last weekÃ¢ÂÂs forum in Washington on religion and politics, featuring the three leading Democratic presidential candidates, the aim was to broaden the religious Ã¢ÂÂvalues agenda.Ã¢ÂÂ In particular, it was part of an effort by left-leaning evangelical activist Jim Wallis to focus attention on the moral dimensions of poverty.
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Indigenous issues are receiving more political attention worldwide, but many observers say most indigenous people remain mired in poverty. Dwindling land remains a chief cause, experts say.
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The Tories will put tackling poverty at the heart of their next election campaign, the BBC learns.
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NEW YORK -- Barely two years ago, Cristina Rodriguez and her three children were moored on the wrong side of the income gap. A high school dropout, she was making a little more than $200 a week, stapling price tags to shirts and boxing them at a Modell's warehouse. "I didn't use my mouth, didn't use...
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World poverty could be consigned to museums if banks and governments stimulate the creative energies of millions of poor people, Muhammad Yunus, the winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, said on Saturday.
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From activists to tycoons, politicians to inventors, these remarkable people offer hope for the future
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One of the 'Green Giants' explores donation, trade-in, asset recovery, and leasing.
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Editor, New Era:           As persons who are deeply concerned about hunger and poverty in our nation and throughout the world, my wife and I are joining with members of Bread for the World and other organizations in raising questions about the farm bill now being considered by Congress.
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A book by leading authors to raise money to combat Aids is to be launched ahead of World Aids Day.
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Nelson Mandela is to urge crowds in London to join the largest ever campaign against poverty.
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British finance minister Gordon Brown pledged over 2.0 billion pounds (2.9 million euros, 3.7 million dollars) to help eradicate poverty in the developing world and give a brighter future for millions of children.
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Billionaire financier and global philanthropist George Soros has dedicated $50 million to the anti-poverty work of the Millennium Village project in Africa, his largest commitment to a single entity in almost a decade.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and   the Rockefeller Foundation unveiled on Tuesday a joint $150   million pledge to fight hunger and poverty in Africa by helping   small farmers become more productive.
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The big money behind big medicine prepares to battle Michael Moore
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MIAMI -- If Dr. Barth Green had his way, there would be no space program. His idea of a moon-shot is curing paralysis, and while he's at it, poverty.