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Without Federal Reform, Number of Uninsured Could Expand Sharply Over Next Decade, Report Finds
The Urban Institute is an Atlantic grantee. If reforms at the federal level are not enacted, the cost of health care for businesses could double and the number of uninsured Americans could reach 65.7 million within a decade, with middle-income families hit hardest, a new…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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Babies & Boomers
‘Engaging Boomers in Early Childhood’ grants help area nonprofits attain more older volunteers to assist children Original Source The Family Nurturing Center in Medford, Oregon is one of three Community Experience Partnership pilot sites. CEP is an Atlantic grantee. By Sanne Specht Becky Walsh sits…
Author: Mail Tribune (South Oregon)
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Pupils show they have the write stuff
Efforts to increase child literacy has experts flocking to Ballymun, writes Gabrielle Monaghan Youngballymun and Barnardos are Atlantic grantees. Across the road from the Virgin Mary Girls’ National School, some of Ballymun’s last tower blocks stand half-empty. Roddy Doyle may have immortalised them in The…
Author: The Sunday Times (London)
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CPS offers expanded summer school
Original Source Much credit goes to the Center for Summer Learning, an Atlantic grantee, as a ‘behind the scenes partner’ on the case. By Ben Fischer Call it summer school, supercharged. At 13 of Cincinnati’s most persistently failing elementary schools, officials are aggressively courting students…
Author: Cincinnati Enquirer
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Obama and the Left
Original Source by Gara LaMarche As the Obama Administration has in recent days taken a couple of steps in the civil liberties/national security area — opposing release of torture photos and declaring an intent to retain some form of military commissions for terror suspects (while…
Author: The Huffington Post
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Increasing Number of Foundations Planning to Sunset
Original Source A growing number of philanthropists are adopting spending deadlines and sunset provisions for their foundations to ensure that global needs are addressed in a timely way, the Wall Street Journal reports. By giving away the bulk of their funds within a set period…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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Every Dollar Spent
As a private foundation prepares to close after 10 years, its founder is urging others to follow its example. By Eric Frazier. When the office-equipment manufacturer Steelcase Furniture went public just over a decade ago, the deal supplied its major stockholder, John Hunting, with the…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Research sheds new light on why pancreatic cancer drugs fail
Original Source An international team of scientists, led by researchers based at the Cambridge Research Institute, have discovered a new mechanism that may explain why pancreatic cancer patients are often resistant to a common chemotherapy treatment, germcitabine. The study, published in the journal Science today,…
Author: University of Cambridge
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Philanthropists Set Spending Deadlines
Original Source By SHELLY BANJO A growing number of philanthropists are adopting spending deadlines and sunset provisions to ensure urgent global needs are addressed in a timely way. By granting the entirety of funds within a certain period of time, these charitable efforts are looking…
Author: The Wall Street Journal
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Boston University's Institute for Geriatric Social Work Awarded $3.1-million Grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies
By Colin Riley (Boston) Boston University’s Institute for Geriatric Social Work (IGSW), a national leader in training social workers in competencies related to aging, has received a five-year, $3.1-million extension grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) to continue the institute’s trail-blazing efforts to prepare the…
Author: Boston University