Results List
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As We Enter 2008, a Look Back Shows Policy Gains for Atlantic Grantees
The end of one year and the start of the next is a traditional time for looking both back and forward, and a good time to check in with readers of this column – an unusual experiment in philanthropy that we started in July, a…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Research Forum on Quality After-School Programs for Middle School Students
In November, 2007 the Center sponsored the second in an on-going series of research forums in which after-school practitioners learn from leading scholars about pressing issues in their field. The topic was achieving quality and maximizing outcomes for middle school students who attend after-school programs.…
Author: The Center for After-School Excellence
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NI elderly to get commissioner
An older people’s commissioner is to be appointed by next year to defend the rights and interests of the elderly in Northern Ireland. The announcement was made by the first and deputy first ministers. Grace Henry, director of Help the Aged in Northern Ireland, said…
Author: BBC News
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Communities Fighting for Rights in Northern Ireland: You’re Not “On Your Own”
When Gerard McCarten, a butcher from North Belfast, steeled up his courage to testify before the local health authority about the suicide of his son Danny two years ago, the officials he was dealing with got up and opened the windows in the room onto…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Fashion Police vs. Traffic Police
Thousands of motorbikes sweving at high speed and near misses at every corner can make the roaring streets of Hanoi a terrifying place for the uninitiated. But for Vietnamese teenagers like Trinh Thanh Van, the motorized maelstrom is a party on wheels. It’s 8 p.m.…
Author: Time Magazine
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One School Shows Prevention Requires More Than a Health Class
Inside the Arts and TechnologyAcademy in Northeast Washington, you’ll find an antidote to the spread of HIV and AIDS, along with ways to reduce teen pregnancy, curb substance abuse and quell violence. While students at the public charter elementary are learning basic skills, they are…
Author: Washington Post
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Coming clean
The Philadelphia Foundation was one of the last places Nancy Burd thought she would work. As head of the Philadelphia office of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, a foundation grantee, she knew firsthand that it did not have a good reputation. But during the interview process…
Author: Financial Times
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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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TIME MAGAZINE PUTS VOLUNTEERMATCH IN ITS TOP 10 FOR 2007
Pioneering nonprofit Web service included in list of happening consumer destinations. (San Francisco, CA) – TIME Magazine has selected VolunteerMatch.org as one of the year’s Top 10 Web sites in the magazine’s annual survey of news, business and cultural touchstones for the year. In her…
Author: VolunteerMatch
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Teenage Birth Rate Rises for First Time Since '91
The birth rate among teenagers 15 to 19 in the United States rose 3 percent in 2006, according to a report issued Wednesday, the first such increase since 1991. The finding surprised scholars and fueled a debate about whether the Bush administration’s abstinence-only sexual education…
Author: New York Times
