Mois : mai 2011

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

Linked on our blogs with Toxic Flood Gives Marginalized Roma a New Chance.

  • The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is an innovative award-winning non-profit journalism organization dedicated to supporting the independent international journalism that U.S. media organizations are increasingly less able to undertake. The Center focuses on under-reported topics, promoting high-quality international reporting and creating platforms that reach broad and diverse audiences … (about (our mission 1/2).
  • Also on en.wikipedia.

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Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Suite #615, Washington, DC 20036, USA;
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About /Our Mission 2/2: … The Center’s educational programs provide students with fresh information on global issues, help them think critically about the creation and dissemination of news, and inspire them to become active consumers and producers of information. Continuer la lecture de « Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting »

Mind and Life Institute

Linked on our blogs with Change your Mind Change your Brain.

  • The Mind & Life Institute is a non-profit organization that seeks to understand the human mind and the benefits of contemplative practices through an integrated mode of knowing that combines first person knowledge from the world’s contemplative traditions with methods and findings from contemporary scientific inquiry. Ultimately, our goal is to relieve human suffering and advance well-being … (full text Values, Vision, Mission & Strategy).
  • See also on fr.wikipedia, and on en.wikipedia.

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Address: Mind & Life Institute, 7007 Winchester Cir., Suite 100, Boulder, CO 80301, USA;
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Dalai Lama and Mind and Life: His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is the leader of Tibetan Buddhism, a spiritual leader revered worldwide, and (he was until recently) the head of the Tibetan government-in-exile.   Continuer la lecture de « Mind and Life Institute »

Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice CMRP

at Prifysgol Bangor University, Bangor, UK.

  • The Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP) is a self-funding organisation based in School of Psychology which is part of Bangor University.
  • The CMRP is committed to the promotion of wellbeing through the application of mindfulness-based approaches. This is achieved by training professionals in the application of mindfulness based approaches and researching applications of mindfulness. We also offer classes in mindfulness based stress reductions (MBSR) and mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT) to specific populations and the general public both locally and further afield … (full text about the Centre).
  • University Prifysgol.

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Address: Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, School of Psychology, Dean St Building, Bangor University, Bangor LL57 1UT, UK;
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About Mindfullness: What is ‘mindfulness’ and how can it help?  Continuer la lecture de « Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice CMRP »

Children's Defense Fund CDF

The Children’s Defense Fund grew out of the Civil Rights Movement under the leadership of Marian Wright Edelman. The first Black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, Mrs. Edelman directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Miss.; worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as counsel for his Poor People’s Campaign; and dedicated her early career to defending the civil liberties of people struggling to overcome poverty and discrimination … (about /OHistory 1/2).
CFD on wikipedia.

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Address: Children’s Defense Fund, 25 E Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20001, USA;
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About /History 2/2: … In 1969, Mrs. Edelman began the Washington Research Project, a public interest law firm that monitored federal programs for low-income families and, out of that initiative, she founded the Children’s Defense Fund in 1973.  Continuer la lecture de « Children's Defense Fund CDF »

Consumer Federation of America CFA

  • The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) is an association of non-profit consumer organizations that was established in 1968 to advance the consumer interest through research, advocacy, and education. Today, nearly 300 of these groups participate in the federation and govern it through their representatives on the organization’s Board of Directors … (about /Overview 1/2).
  • CFA on wikipedia.

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Adress: CFA, 1620 I Street, NW – Suite 200, Washington, DC 20006, USA;
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About /Overview: … CFA is a research, advocacy, education, and service organization.  Continuer la lecture de « Consumer Federation of America CFA »