Results List
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The Corner Office, Non-Profit Edition: A Practitioner’s Thoughts on Social Justice Management
Social justice management should be both more humane and tougher, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech at the Yale School of Management. I was at first flattered when I heard that students here at the Yale School of Management…
Resource type: Speech
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South African Children Push for Better Schools
Source: The New York Times
Equal Education is an Atlantic grantee. By CELIA W. DUGGER CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Thousands of children marched to City Hall this week in sensible black shoes, a stream of boys and girls from township schools across this seaside city that extended for blocks,…
Resource type: News
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Foundation recovery likely slow
Source: Philanthropy Journal
Original Source The Foundation Center and the Council on Foundations are Atlantic grantees. by Ret Boney The injuries foundations sustained during the market downturns were severe, and it likely will be years before foundation giving is back on track, but funders have risen to the…
Resource type: News
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Study to examine cross-border care
Source: Irish Medical Times
The Centre for Cross Border Studies is an Atlantic grantee. A new cross-border study will revisit the controversial Teamwork report that recommended just one public hospital in the northeast with 24/7 clinical services. As staff in the region are digesting the news that emergency services,…
Resource type: News
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Number of Uninsured Children Drops to Lowest Level Since 1987
Source: Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute
Outlook Bleaker for Parents and Other Adults 10 Sep 2009 The Center for Children and Families is an Atlantic grantee. Statement by Jocelyn Guyer, Co-Director Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute "The new Census report shows that the number of…
Resource type: News
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Tricky Road Ahead for Innovation Fund
Source: Education Week
Original source Teach for America and Grantmakers for Education are Atlantic grantees. By Erik W. Robelen Federal education officials will face a variety of obstacles in running a $650 million innovation fund, from an expected flood of applications and concern about favoritism in picking winners,…
Resource type: News
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N.C. special licensing program rewards long-term care providers who maintain high-quality workforce
Source: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
For release: Immediate Date: August 21, 2006 Contact: Jim Jones (919) 733-9190 RALEIGH North Carolina has created a first-in-the-nation program to help reduce the turnover of nurse aides and other direct care workers who provide hands-on care to hundreds of thousands of the state's elderly…
Resource type: News
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Real Life: The key to long life
Source: Irish Independent - Supplement
Original Source The TILDA study is funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies. Trinity College Dublin is an Atlantic grantee. The Irish population is getting older at an unprecedented rate, and now a new 10-year study is aiming to make Ireland the best place in the world…
Resource type: News
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Recognise Key Role of Migrant Care Workers in Our Ageing Society
Source: Centre on Migration, Policy and Society
Migrant workers play a vital role in the care of older people in the United Kingdom but they face poor pay and working conditions that the government must address to ensure fair treatment for the workers, according to this report funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies…
Resource type: Research Report
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Asia's economic transformation puts region's health at risk, warns leading academic
Source: Intellasia interactive
Despite extraordinary progress which has lifted 600 million people out of poverty in Asia since 1990, the basic right to health is under threat and the future looks more uncertain, says University of New South Wales professor of Health and Human Rights, Daniel Tarantola. "The…
Resource type: News