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Event: Recovery and Reconstruction in Haiti: The Role of U.S. Philanthropy and Local Groups
On Wednesday, May 12th, from 4:00 – 6:00 PM, the Center for Nonprofit Strategy and Management at Baruch College, in collaboration with Philanthropy New York, will present “Recovery and Reconstruction in Haiti: The Role of U.S. Philanthropy and Local Groups,” a program focusing on the…
Author: Philanthropy New York
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Jack Rosenthal Appointed Senior Fellow at The Atlantic Philanthropies
New York, January 15, 2010 – Jack Rosenthal has been appointed Senior Fellow at The Atlantic Philanthropies effective January 4, 2010. Bringing to bear his extensive experience in philanthropy, journalism and government, Rosenthal will provide counsel to the foundation’s four programmes in seven countries and…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Agent Orange: Congenital deformities plague Vietnam; U.S. slow to help
By Jason Grotto. DONG NAI PROVINCE, Vietnam. U.S., Vietnam split over whether defoliants used in war are to blame Part 3 of a Tribune investigation finds that the role of defoliants in Vietnam’s high rate of birth defects remains a contentious question decades after U.S.…
Author: Chicago Tribune
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Campaign Launched to Eliminate Gender Inequities in Health Coverage
The National Women’s Law Center and PHI are Atlantic grantees. The National Women’s Law Center has kicked off a campaign to educate women about gender inequities in health care coverage. “Being a Woman is Not a Pre-Existing Condition” was launched on October 20 to mobilize…
Author: PHI Blog
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USAction to Mark Ten Years of Building National and Grassroots Progressive Leadership
Health Care for America Now is an Atlantic grantee. Tenth Anniversary Progressive Leadership Awards to honor those who have helped build our movement and moved us closer to comprehensive health care reform. USAction will celebrate its tenth anniversary at its annual Progressive Leadership Awards Gala…
Author: USAction
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Take2: Winds of change sweep SA healthcare
Original Source The University of KwaZulu-Natal is an Atlantic grantee. by ANNABEL JACOBY JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – As recently as last year, professors Hoosen Coovadia and Salim Abdool Karim, two of South Africa’s foremost HIV researchers, were two of the health department’s greatest enemies. Former…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online
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The Atlantic Philanthropies in South Africa: Some Reflections on the First 100 Days of the Zuma Government
This week Gerald Kraak, Programme Executive with Atlantic’s Reconciliation & Human Rights Programme and a veteran South African human rights advocate based in our Johannesburg office, shares his thoughts on the first 100 days of President Zuma’s administration. While international coverage of the April…
Author: Gerald Kraak
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A Nonprofit Push for Change
Coalition of groups band together in battle to overhaul health care Original Source Health Care for America Now, Families USA, the American Cancer Society and AARP are Atlantic grantees. By Suzanne Perry As members of Congress fan out across the country during their August recess,…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Gara LaMarche '76's Job Is To Give Away $4 Billion
Original Source By Thomas F. Ferguson ’74 By the time most people are 50, they have learned to spend less than they earn. Gara LaMarche ’76 has had to unlearn that rule in his job as CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, a $4 billion global…
Author: Columbia College Today Alumni Magazine May/June 2008
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Why Mature Activism May Save the Planet
Original Source AARP and Civic Ventures are Atlantic grantees. By: Rob Gurwitt It was not a promising start. Getting ready to head out for the Utah wilderness, Lee Verner had packed her clothes in a black bag, laid it down on a black chair and…
Author: AARP Bulletin Today