Results List
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Int’l organisations help upgrade VNIO
Source: VOV News
The Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) from the US and the Australia’s Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF) have provided more than US$2 million to help improve the Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology (VNIO). The focus of a two-year project will be on four main fields: developing a training…
Resource type: News
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The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
Source: Southern Education Foundation
This report, released by the Southern Education Foundation, analyzes patterns of extreme child poverty by state, county, and school district. It examines federal funding for high-poverty districts and the need for local, state, and federal policy to improve educational opportunities for the poorest children. The…
Resource type: Research Report
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Supporting Initiatives By and For Women Is Critical To Achieving Social Justice
Source: Gara LaMarche
In their new book, “Half the Sky,” Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn assert that there can be no social or economic justice, or human rights progress around the world, that does not have women and girls at its core. It’s a…
Resource type: News
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Initiative Focuses on Early Learning Programs
Source: The New York Times
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…
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Two Atlantic Ageing Grantees Receive "People of the Year" Award
Source: Irish Senior Citizens' Parliament
Irish Senior Citizens' Parliament and the Irish Hospice Foundation are Atlantic grantees. The Irish Senior Citizens' Parliament is thrilled and delighted that its President, Sylvia Meehan, has been presented with a prestigious "People of the Year" award. Sylvia was presented with the award by Mary…
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The Debate Continues: NCRP Report Should Spur Reflection About Social Justice, Not Attacks
Source: The Council on Foundations
Original Source By: Gara LaMarche The recent report by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP), “ Philanthropy at its Best: Benchmarks to Assess and Enhance Grantmaking Impact,” has stirred up a storm among foundations not seen since, well…the last time foundations were called upon to be more…
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Strategies for Implementing School-Based Services
Source: Child Trends
Top practitioners and policymakers from New Mexico share what they learned in implementing school-based health services and extended learning opportunities in this case study prepared by Child Trends. Elev8 New Mexico is an initiative of the Children & Youth Programme of The Atlantic Philanthropies, and…
Resource type: Research Report
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City Lead on Child Eye Care
Source: Liverpool Echo
DOCTORS at Liverpool's Alder Hey joined the fight against childhood blindness. As research shows that one child goes blind every minute somewhere in the world, eye specialists have offered to share their expertise. They have teamed up with the Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF) to launch…
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Tears for Tale of a Lamented Mother
Source: Canberra Times
Therese Rein was brought to tears yesterday as she read a poem by 14-year-old Sianna Eland. The Canberra schoolgirl wrote about her mother, Maria King, who died seven years ago. The Prime Minister's wife was asked to share the poem with a crowd gathered at…
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A Decline in Uninsured Is Reported for 2007
Source: The New York Times
by IAN URBINA WASHINGTON - After climbing steadily for six years, the number of Americans without health insurance dropped by more than a million in 2007, to 45.7 million, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. The drop was the result of growth in government-sponsored health insurance…
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