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New building boost for African research
By Caitlin Ross. A state-of-the-art Life Sciences building – the best of its kind on the continent – was officially opened on Tuesday at the University of the Western Cape. Speaking at the opening ceremony, attended by an illustrious guest list including figureheads in education…
Author: West Cape News
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Making and Living History
“Our grants, now completed, are like sown seeds which will bear the fruit of good works long after we turn out the lights at The Atlantic Philanthropies.” – Chuck Feeney Atlantic has been making and living our history lately. In December 2016, we made our…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Nurses: The Critical Link in Improving Health Care for the Underserved
Jennifer Wilson, Bermuda’s Nurse of the Year for 2008, spends her days driving the Azmobile from one island school to another. She coordinates an island-wide asthma education programme for Open Airways, an Atlantic-supported organisation that has helped cut hospital admissions for asthma sufferers by nearly…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Mathematica to Evaluate KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program)
PRINCETON, N.J. (March 13, 2008)-Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., has been awarded a contract of approximately $4 million to evaluate the impact of KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program). KIPP is a national network of free, open-enrollment, college preparatory public schools in underserved communities throughout the United…
Author: Mathematica
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High Schools Train Students to be Entrepreneurs
NewsHour Special Correspondent for Education John Merrow reports on a program that trains high school students to be entrepreneurs. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education/jan-june07/entrepreneurs_01-15.html JOHN MERROW, Special Correspondent for Education: Seventeen-year-old high school senior Yesenia Mercado lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Ahead of her is a very important day.…
Author: PBS Newshour
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Final Grant From Atlantic Supports The Cornell Tradition
By Diane Lebo Wallace The Cornell Tradition awards 500 fellowships each year to Cornell students who demonstrate significant work experience, a commitment to campus and/or community service, and academic achievement. Photo: Lindsay France/University Photography The Atlantic Philanthropies, the foundation established by entrepreneur Charles F. Feeney ’56,…
Author: Cornell Chronicle
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Charter Schools' Big Experiment
New Orleans’s Post-Katrina Test May Offer Lessons for Ailing Systems Original Source By Jay Mathews Washington Post Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS The storm that swamped this city three years ago also effectively swept away a public school system with a dismal record and faint prospects…
Author: The Washington Post
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Dropout-Prevention Program Sees to The Basics of Life
Original Source By Jay Mathews Washington Post Staff Writer Word was getting around about the new problem solver on campus. So the mother tracked her down one recent day in a makeshift office on the second floor of a Southeast Washington public school. “I don’t…
Author: The Washington Post
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The Irish-American Billionaire Who Gave Away His Fortune
Chuck Feeney with Ed Walsh, then president of University of Limerick, and Frank Rhodes, president of Cornell, meeting in Plessy House, Limerick, in 1988 at the beginning of a process that would translate into hundreds of millions for higher education in Ireland. Chuck Feeney, ‘the…
Author: The Irish Times
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President of Ireland Joins the Bay Area Council In Honoring Marc Benioff and Chuck Feeney
Salesforce Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff and Duty Free Shoppers Group Founder Chuck Feeney were the guests of honor at the Bay Area Council’s 70th Anniversary Annual Dinner and 2015 Bay Area Business Hall of Fame gathering on Wednesday, October 28, at The Fairmont Hotel…
Author: TMG Partners