Results List
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Program to Address Disparities in School Discipline Policies that Fuel “School to Prison Pipeline” in Four U.S. Cities
PROVIDENCE – Brown University’s Annenberg Institute for School Reform (AISR) announced today a $1 million, two-year grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies, a limited-life foundation, to engage community and school-district partners in four major U.S. cities with the goal of addressing school discipline practices and policies that contribute…
Author: Annenberg Institute for School Reform
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Older Adults as Community Assets, or Taking an Encore in Maine
Meredith Jones is President & CEO of the Maine Community Foundation, and a participant in the national Community Experience Partnership, an Atlantic grantee. Last week a member of U.S. Senator Susan Collins’ staff called to ask for my help. Senator Collins, who is the ranking…
Author: Community Experience Partnership
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Getting the Communication Plan Right From Day One
Stacey Easterling is a Programme Executive for Ageing at The Atlantic Philanthropies. In 2007, The Atlantic Philanthropies began funding a national pilot in which success depended on engaging, and helping shift society’s perceptions of, people over age 60. This pilot needed to take hold in a…
Author: Stacey Easterling, Programme Executive
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Charitable Giving Is Soaring — But Is It Effective?
Philanthropic donations are booming, but post-Great Recession poverty and inequity remain. By Martin Michaels Year after year, the citizenry of the U.S. continues to be one of the most altruistic on earth, volunteering an average of 7.85 billion volunteer hours according to a report by the Corporation for…
Author: MintPress News
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As Population Ages, Hospital Nurses Increasingly Finding their NICHE
By Chris Lund People over the age of 65 are expected to grow from 13.3% of the US population today to 20.3% by 2030, and those over the age of 85 are projected to increase from 5.7 million in 2011 to 8.9 million people in…
Author: ElderBranch
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NAACP’s Ben Jealous: Beyond the Dream
On Aug. 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. addressed marchers during his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Photo: Associated Press By Benjamin Todd Jealous Fifty years after Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, American apartheid is dead. We…
Author: The Wall Street Journal
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Once Again a Senior, and Now What Are We Looking Forward To?
By Terry Kaelber Wednesday, August 21, is National Senior Citizens Day. Remember being a senior in high school or college? Figuring out what to do with our lives – identifying what was next – wasn’t easy. But there were resources available to help us understand…
Author: Terry Kaelber, Community Experience Partnership
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New Obamacare Enrollment Campaign Unveiled By Kathleen Sebelius
WASHINGTON — With precious time remaining before the health care exchanges established by the president’s health care law are up and running, the Obama administration is rolling out new initiatives to encourage enrollment. The latest of these is set to be unveiled on Monday, when…
Author: Huffington Post
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Albie Sachs: From Freedom Fighter to Justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court
By Morris Arvoy Albie Sachs, an internationally known human rights activist and top judge in South Africa, suffered solitary confinement and exile and survived a bomb attack by South African security agents during the arduous fight to end apartheid. Sachs, 78, went on to help…
Author: Charles Steward Mott Foundation
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Judge Rules NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Practices Unconstitutional, Racially Discriminatory
In a historic ruling on 12 August 2013, a federal judge found the New York City Police Department (NYPD) stop-and-frisk practices — which entail temporarily detaining people on the street, questioning them, and possibly also frisking or searching them — unconstitutional and racially discriminatory. This legal victory…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
