Results List
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New National Collaborative Aims to Improve Outcomes for Boys and Men of Color
Improving Outcomes for Boys and Men of Color: New National Collaborative Aims to Identify and Share Best Practices and Fund Cross-Cutting Academic and Community-Based Research A new multifaceted effort, RISE (Research, Integration, Strategy and Evaluation) for Boys and Men of Color, has launched to identify…
Author: University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
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How King v. Burwell Threatens the Health and Financial Stability of Consumers
By Ron Pollack, Executive Director, Families USA One of the most incredible oddities about the King v. Burwell case is that the people who have the biggest stake in its outcome are not parties to the litigation. This is because there are only two sets of parties…
Author: Families USA
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Reforming School Discipline Policies to Improve Children's Success
By Kavitha Mediratta Head of Racial Equity Programmes, The Atlantic Philanthropies In recent months, we have seen an outpouring of protest by communities of color against aggressive policing and the trauma and violence these tactics engender. A similar phenomenon is occurring in our schools, where…
Author: Grantmakers In Health
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'A Beautiful Death' Video Is a Finalist for National Magazine Award
By Joel Keehn Consumer Reports is a finalist for a 2015 National Magazine Award in multimedia, which honors the best in digital storytelling, for its report ‘A Beautiful Death.’ The multimedia package includes an 18-minute video that chronicles the final 38 days of Paul Scheier, a retired dentist…
Author: Consumer Reports
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Retaining an Engaged Staff to the End
This post by Maria Pignataro Nielsen, Atlantic’s Chief Human Resources Officer, is part of GrantCraft’s “Making Change by Spending Down” series. Although Atlantic is often referred to as a “spend down” foundation, we think of ourselves as a limited life foundation, with our final years…
Author: GrantCraft
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How Our Schools Are Holding Black Girls Back
By Lori Bezahler, Cassie Schwerner and Kavitha Mediratta Lori Bezahler is the President of the Edward W. Hazen Foundation. Cassie Schwerner is Senior Vice President of Programs at the Schott Foundation for Public Education. Kavitha Mediratta is Head of Racial Equity Programs at The Atlantic…
Author: TIME
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New $25m Fund for SA civil society groups working to advance constitutionalism
Joint statement from the Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies Cape Town – Today the Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies announced the launch of a joint fund to support organisations promoting and advancing constitutionalism in…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Race and Overreaction: On the Streets and in Schools
Photo: The Good Doctor/Flickr By Mica Pollock and Tanya Coke In each police-related death recently dominating the headlines, authorities overreacted to black men’s behaviors as if they were life-threatening. On Staten Island, an unarmed Eric Garner was wrestled to the ground by five police officers and…
Author: The Atlantic
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Study: Suspensions Harm 'Well-Behaved' Kids
Photo: Alison Yin for EdSource Today By Jane Meredith Adams It’s a belief repeated every day by teachers, principals and parents of rule-abiding children: Suspending disruptive students will allow the rest of the class to settle down and learn. But a new, large study calls this rationale…
Author: EdSource
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Nonprofit's Big Bet on Linked Learning
Naomi Post is head of community-based programmes at Atlantic. By Naomi Post, guest commentary The Atlantic Philanthropies is committed to spending its considerable endowment by 2020 in a final push to find workable answers to some seemingly intractable social problems. That means we are making…
Author: San Jose Mercury News
