Results List
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Harvest Time for the Atlantic Philanthropies: Reports Examine the Foundation’s Decisions and Lessons in Final Years
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
When Atlantic commissioned philanthropy consultant Tony Proscio in 2010, in conjunction with Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society, to write a series of reports charting the foundation’s final years, it was the largest foundation planning to put all its charitable assets to…
Resource type: Research Report
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Scanning the Skyline: Lessons From 30 Years of Capital Grantmaking
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
Buildings have a special allure for philanthropy—their mass, their unambiguous reality, their durability, their promise of sheltering great transformative enterprise—that few other achievements can match. They also conjure a cloud of distinctive risks: the possibility of inadequate maintenance, financial drain, premature obsolescence, the danger that…
Resource type: News
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To Keep Kids Out of Trouble—And Prison—Teach Them to Understand Their Emotions
Source: YES! Magazine
A restorative circle at MetWest High School in Oakland, Calif. Image by Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth and Oakland Unified School District.After teaching students to understand and talk through their conflicts, schools in Denver and Los Angeles have seen major reductions in disciplinary action.By Katherine…
Resource type: News
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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…
Resource type: News
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Why on Earth Would a Foundation Try to Get Rid of All of Its Money?
The reasons behind The Atlantic Philanthropies’ decision to spend all of its endowment are outlined in this 2009 speech by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Annual Meeting of Delaware Valley Grantmakers in Philadelphia. My talk this afternoon poses the question, which I…
Resource type: Speech
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As 2009 Nears, Stresses Vie with Opportunities for Atlantic and its Grantees
Source: Gara LaMarche
As 2008 draws to a close, organisations, just like individuals, should take a moment to reflect on the challenges and accomplishments of the year that is ending, and prepare for the one ahead. I’d like to do that, in this final column of an eventful…
Resource type: News
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Separating generations a bad idea; When young, old live together, it's better for society.
Source: Newsday (New York)
by Susanne Bleiberg Seperson and Paul Arfin Susanne Bleiberg Seperson is director of the Center for Intergenerational Policy and Practice at Dowling College. Paul Arfin is president and chief executive of Intergenerational Strategies, a nonprofit charitable organization. President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel,…
Resource type: News
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A Laughing Matter: SF Comedian Looks to Tell the Stories of Dementia Patients, Caregivers
Source: University of California San Francisco
Kornbluth is one of 32 inaugural Atlantic Fellows at the Global Brain Health Institute, a collaboration between the Memory and Aging Center at UCSF and Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland.
Resource type: News
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Why More and More Philanthropies Are Choosing to Put Themselves Out of Business
Source: Fast Company
The limited-life foundation–where big donors pledge to spend all their money in a certain short period of time–offers the potential for a bigger immediate impact at the expense of longevity.
Resource type: News
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De Blasio Administration Announces New School Climate Initiatives to Make NYC Schools Safer, Fairer and More Transparent
Source: The City of New York
Proposed updates to the discipline code include an end to suspensions for students in grades K-2 For the first time, NYPD releases expanded school safety data on school-based arrests, summonses and handcuffing New scanning policy establishes official process based on data with NYPD oversight for…
Resource type: News