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A new commissioner for older people in Northern Ireland will not be a toothless tiger, the Assembly has been told. Whoever takes up the position will have an extensive range of powers to investigate complaints and take legal action, Junior Minister Robin Newton pledged. He…

Older & Bolder Premiers Online Campaign Film Made By Award-Winning Director to Help Defend The State Pension 21 October 2010 Alliance to undertake nationwide lobby and petition campaign over coming weeks Government should focus on reforming tax reliefs rather than further cutting the State Pension…

Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, participated on a panel of The Settlement Summit: Inclusion, Innovation, Impact. He shared his thoughts and six suggestions on the responsibility of American foundations when working abroad, which are also applicable to grantmaking in other places…

Today (21st September 2010) is 'World Alzheimer's Day', a day when people around the globe raise awareness of Alzheimer's and related dementias.Marking the importance of this day, Jim Wells MLA and Chair of the Stormont Health Committee got on board the Fold Brain Bus -…

I don’t usually use this space for organisational announcements, but we have recently made three new appointments to Atlantic’s senior staff, who together bring enormous strengths to our mission and each of whom illustrates something important about where the foundation is going in its final…

By Gara LaMarche.  In March, I was honored to watch President Obama's bill signing for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with a group of labor leaders and reform activists. Around me were advocates who had worked for months -- in some cases decades…

The road to lasting change in the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people begins with the courage to ask the right questions, said Le Nhan Phuong, Programme Director of the Population Health Programme at The Atlantic Philanthropies, in this speech at the International Conference on…

The New America Foundation is an Atlantic grantee. by SAM DILLON Tucked away in an $87 billion higher education bill that passed the House last week was a broad new federal initiative aimed not at benefiting college students, but at raising quality in the early…

All healthy institutions must from time to time take a look at what they are doing to see what’s working and what isn’t, to re-examine assumptions in light of changes in the environment – political, social, economic and philanthropic – and make any necessary adjustments.…

Original Source The Center for Community Change is an Atlantic grantee. By SARA RIMER CAMBRIDGE, Mass. QUINN RALLINS, 23, graduated magna cum laude last year from Morehouse College with a dual major in international studies and Spanish. This spring, Mr. Rallins is finishing his master’s degree in…