The Chula Vista Charitable Foundation Invites Nonprofits to Apply for 2011 Grants
The Chula Vista Charitable Foundation has released its 2011 Grant Guidelines. The focus for this first grant cycle for The Foundation is Health & Human Services – Access to Care.
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<p> The presidential meeting this week between Mexico’s Felipe Calderon and Barack Obama looked from the outside like a hastily arranged exercise in damage control. But while most analysts emphasized the tensions between the neighboring nations going into the meeting, the real crisis behind the visit was the failure of what the two leaders most strongly agree on: the war on drugs south of the border.</p>
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<p> In California, the state government currently spends more than $34 billion a year paying private contractors to do jobs that civil servants can perform for half the cost. Another $900 million of taxpayer funds is wasted annually propping up the state’s failed enterprise zone program. Common sense dictates that any proposal to balance the state budget begin here.</p>
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<p> I was “raised union.”</p>
<p> My mother, who immigrated to the United States from Nicaragua, worked the 3 p.m. to midnight shift at a toy factory after the birth of my younger twin sisters. She was a member of the United Rubber Workers, which later merged with the Steelworkers Union.</p>
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<p> Vivimos momentos que hubieran enorgullecido a César Chávez. Por primera vez en décadas, los trabajadores del país han dicho “¡basta!” y exigido el respeto de quienes los emplean.</p>
<p> En ésta nos jugamos todos los que no somos ricos o superricos nuestro futuro económico y nuestra capacidad de frenar a los enemigos de la salud de nuestras comunidades.</p>
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<p> As a proud New Yorker and the mother of a first responder who lost his life on September 11, 2001, I am saddened to learn that Rep. Peter King (R-NY) is holding congressional hearings, March 10, on the “radicalization of American Muslims.”</p>
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