Results List
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Higher Achievement CEO Featured on US Department of Education's Television Series, Education News Parents Can Use
Higher Achievement is an Atlantic grantee. Today, Richard Tagle, Higher Achievement CEO, will be featured on the television series Education News that Parents Can Use (Education News), to speak about how programs like Higher Achievement help prevent the academic slide and promote achievement. Education News is the…
Resource type: News
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Vivien Labaton Appointed Director of Strategic Programme Initiatives at The Atlantic Philanthropies
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
New York, June 9, 2009 Vivien Labaton has been appointed Director of Strategic Programme Initatives at The Atlantic Philanthropies effective May 28, 2009. Labaton will work with Atlantic's four programs in seven countries to develop and implement their grantmaking strategies to achieve social justice and…
Resource type: News
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Repairing the Broken Infrastructure of Justice in America
Steps to repair the US justice system are outlined in this speech by Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, at the Alliance for Justice 30th Anniversary Luncheon, Washington, D.C. View video of this speech at the Alliance for Justice web site. Thank you,…
Resource type: Speech
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Youth group opens centre in former drug den in North Hamilton
Source: The Royal Gazette
By TAURIA RAYNORA building once used for illicit activity has been completely transformed by a grassroots organisation that provides free assistance to entrepreneurs.Youth on the Move (YOM) was founded on the principle that the ability to achieve something positive, is within everyone's reach.It's a message…
Resource type: News
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Service Movement Creates Opportunities for After-School
Source: Youth Today
The Youth Development Institute (through the Fund for the City of New York) is an Atlantic grantee. by Peter Kleinbard What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility: a recognition on the part of every American that we have duties to…
Resource type: News
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Minister Andrews opens Forum promoting more effective services for children and families
Source: Forum on Prevention and Early Intervention for Children and Youth
Forum on Prevention and Early Intervention for Children and Youth a joint initiative by the Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs and The Atlantic Philanthropies Croke Park, Dublin Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Barry Andrews TD, said that prevention and early…
Resource type: News
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Babies & Boomers
Source: Mail Tribune (South Oregon)
'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…
Resource type: News
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Pupils show they have the write stuff
Source: The Sunday Times (London)
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…
Resource type: News
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Obama and the Left
Source: The Huffington Post
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…
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Boston University's Institute for Geriatric Social Work Awarded $3.1-million Grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies
Source: Boston University
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…
Resource type: News