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Mayor Daley Says "Elev8 Chicago," A Public-Private Partnership In Five Chicago Public Schools, Has Shown Early Success
Program Operates On-Site Health Centers, Extends School Building Hours, Promotes Parental and Community Involvement. Mayor Richard M. Daley today said “Elev8 Chicago,” a broad-based public-private partnership that represents an innovative approach to education, adolescent health and community development, has shown early success in meeting its…
Author: Chicago Mayor's Press Office
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UCSF Medical Center Set to Break Ground at Mission Bay This Year
By Kristen Bole. The new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay project is proceeding on time, significantly under budget and is on track to break ground this fall, pending funding approval by the UC Regents. UCSF expects that construction of the new 289-bed children’s, women’s…
Author: UCSF Today
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Inez McCormack Returns to NI After Meryl Streep Portrays Her Life in New York Play
The Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR) Project is an Atlantic grantee. Inez McCormack, the well known trade union, women’s and human rights activist, returns to Northern Ireland today (Monday 15 March) following Meryl Streep’s portrayal of her life in a New York play…
Author: The Participation and the Practice of Rights Project (The PPR Project) and Vital Voices
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Research centre for social policy key part of NUlG EUR140m plan
NUI GALWAY and Atlantic Philanthropies are to open a €10 million lifecycle institute which will focus on research into key social policy areas. Plans for the multidisciplinary institute are due to be announced today, as part of the university’s €140 million strategic development programme. Atlantic…
Author: The Irish Times
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CSI and social justice: towards partnership with northern donors?
South African corporates have traditionally shied away from investment in human rights and social justice programmes. In this feature article, Colleen du Toit and Gerald Kraak from the Atlantic Philanthropies propose co-operation between northern donors and local companies to enhance the impact of mutual investments…
Author: Published in The CSI Handbook, 10th edition, published by Trialogue, 2007
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Columbia Journalism Review Announces First Ever "Encore" Fellowship for Journalists
Four Leading Downsized Journalists Will Spend Nine Months Writing for CJR and Preparing for the Next Phase of Their Careers. Civic Ventures is an Atlantic grantee. NEW YORK, Oct. 15, 2009 – The Columbia Journalism Review has selected four leading journalists as the first group…
Author: Poynter Online
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Parenting course 'lessens' depression
Archways and the Incredible Years programme are Atlantic grantees via the Clondalkin Partnership. by SYLVIA THOMPSON PARENTS WERE less critical and more confident in dealing with their children after taking part in a parenting programme, a new study has found. Parents who participated in the…
Author: Irish Times
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Cornell makes cancer vaccine for clinical use
Original Source: http://www.pressoffice.cornell.edu/pressoffice/releases/release.cfm?r=29722 Cornell University, the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, and the Cancer Research Institute are Atlantic grantees. ITHACA, N.Y. – The Bioproduction Facility at Cornell University has produced the first batch of NY-ESO-1 recombinant protein-a cancer vaccine that will be used in clinical…
Author: Cornell University
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Slow development of ageing centre of excellence
Original Source The Centre of Excellence for Successful Ageing at St. James’s Hospital, Dublin is an Atlantic grantee. Written by Paul Mulholland The development of the Centre of Excellence for Successful Ageing at St James’s Hospital, Dublin, has been hampered as a result of the…
Author: Irish Medical News
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Grant Makers Step Up Advocacy Efforts to Help Disadvantaged People, Report Says
Original Source Foundations are stepping up their advocacy efforts to help the poor and other disadvantaged people, according to a report released today by the Foundation Center. The report found that grant makers and charity officials were more optimistic about the efficacy of social-justice grant making —…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
