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Join your colleagues for an informal interview with Gara LaMarche, CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, and Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director of the Center for Community Change, moderated by the award winning journalist and public commentator Bill Moyers. Discussion will focus on pressing issues that the…

Atlantic Foundation Deputy Chair Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot was a guest on PBS’s Bill Moyers Journal to discuss her book, The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years after 50. The show aired on PBS on Friday, 8 May, 2009.  You can access the…

Bill Moyers Interviews Gara LaMarche and Deepak Bhargava: Working Towards Progressive Reform and Social Justice 19 October 2010 Nearly twenty-one months after the inauguration of Barack Obama, the social justice movement - and its funders - are at a crossroads. Is there still momentum for progressive reform, and…

Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, discussed his concerns about a growing need for a stronger moral framework for philanthropy at the Starr Forum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.   Forty-five years ago, a young aide named Bill Moyers sat in the…

In October 2010, award-winning journalist Bill Moyers moderated a discussion between Atlantic's President Gara LaMarche and Deepak Bhargava, the Executive Director of the Campaign for Community Change about the road ahead for progressives in the current political climate, and the connection between philanthropy and social justice advocacy. The event,…

This column is adapted from Gara LaMarche's address with this title given recently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.   In 1965, Bill Moyers, then a young White House aide, talked with President Lyndon Johnson about a pending bill to provide retroactive Social Security payments. …

By Gara LaMarche.Note: This article is adapted from a speech by Gara LaMarche called “The Moral Life of Philanthropy,” given at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in September 2010. You can read the full speech hereIn 1965, Bill Moyers, then a young White House aide,…

In October 2010, award-winning journalist Bill Moyers moderated a discussion between Gara LaMarche, President of The Atlantic Philanthropies, and Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director of the Campaign for Community Change about the road ahead for progressives in the current political climate, and the connection between philanthropy…

On a mellow California afternoon earlier this month, I drove a few hours up the coast from Los Angeles, where I’d been on a panel at the annual meeting of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, to spend some time with one of the most influential…