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Applications for the Women's Policy Institute are now available!

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May 13, 2009

The Women's Policy Institute, a program of the Women's Foundation of California, is a year-long training program that equips leaders in nonprofit organizations with the tools to develop and advance public policy in California. The Institute gives women activists and grassroots organizations hands-on experience in making real policy change in Sacramento.

Justices Agree to Take Up Sentencing for Young Offenders

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May 5, 2009
By ADAM LIPTAK
The Supreme Court agreed to consider whether the reasoning that led it to strike down the death penalty for juvenile offenders should also apply to life-without-parole sentences.

Detroit Free Press editorial: Change the juvenile lifer law

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May 3, 2009
BY JEFF GERRITT
Free Press Columnist
Change the juvenile lifer law: offer at least the hope of a second chance for young offenders

USHRF Releases May E-Newsletter

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May 1, 2009

The U.S. Human Rights Fund has released its May issue of Human Rights Happenings, the Fund's monthly e-newsletter. The latest issue includes news on JLWOP Funder Briefings, recipients of the 2009 Scrivener Award, and updates on activities at USHRF grantee organizations, including:

April Issue of Human Rights Happenings Released

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April 9, 2009

The U.S. Human Rights Fund has released its second issue of Human Rights Happenings, the Fund's monthly e-newsletter. The latest issue includes news on a joint USHRF/FFF meeting, a recent alliance building meeting at Public Interest Projects, and updates on activities at USHRF grantee organizations, including:

Human Rights Happenings

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March 6, 2009

The U.S. Human Rights Fund has just released the first issue of its e-newsletter, "Human Rights Happenings." You can view a pdf of the e-newsletter by clicking here.

Please reach out to us via our Contact Form if you'd like to be added to our e-newsletter mailing list, or have suggestions for items we should include.

Half a Million Nonprofits Could Lose Their Federal Tax Exemptions, GuideStar Warns

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February 17, 2009

The Pension Protection Act also directs the IRS to revoke the tax-exempt status of any organization that fails to file an annual return, including the 990-N, for three consecutive years. Revocations will happen automatically beginning in May 2010.

Experts have long believed that many defunct organizations are listed as active in the IRS files. (Exempt nonprofits are required to inform the IRS when they go out of business, but many don't.) It is unlikely, however, that they add up to half a million.

Atlas Corps Now Accepting Fellowship Applications through April 1

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February 17, 2009

Atlas Corps Now Accepting Fellowship Applications

through April 1

http://www.atlascorps.org/apply.html

Call for Conference Participation

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February 17, 2009

Social Welfare Action Alliance (SWAA), formerly Bertha Capen Reynolds Society, and the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) invite your participation in their joint 2009 conference Building the Unsettling Force: A National Conference to Abolish Poverty being held July 16-Sunday July 19 at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.

Chicago City Council Passed Resolution Supporting the Convention on the Rights for the Child

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February 17, 2009

CHICAGO --- Sandra Babcock, associate clinical professor at the Center for International Human Rights (CIHR) at Northwestern University School of Law, will be available to talk about the City of Chicago's historic adoption today, Wednesday, Feb. 11, of a resolution in support of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The Mayor introduced the resolution into the City Council with the support of Commissioner Mary Ellen Caron, Department of Family and Support Services.

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