Results List
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Atlantic’s Culminating Grants: Cultivating Change
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
In his latest instalment in a series chronicling Atlantic’s limited life, Tony Proscio at the Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society conjures the image of a harvest to describe our work in Atlantic’s final years. The metaphor is apt. We want to…
Resource type: News
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Not Just a Numbers Game: Budget Cuts Threaten Those Already Struggling
Source: Gara LaMarche
“Oh, I really feel we’ve been led up the garden path…We are the people that worked. We put this country on its feet, and we’re the people that are being hit every which way.” - Diane, age 81, in Dublin, Ireland Across many of the geographies…
Resource type: News
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Research Links Poor Kids' Stress, Brain Impairment
Source: The Washington Post
Original Source By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Children raised in poverty suffer many ill effects: They often have health problems and tend to struggle in school, which can create a cycle of poverty across generations. Now, research is providing what could be crucial clues…
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New National Collaborative Aims to Improve Outcomes for Boys and Men of Color
Source: University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
Improving Outcomes for Boys and Men of Color: New National Collaborative Aims to Identify and Share Best Practices and Fund Cross-Cutting Academic and Community-Based ResearchA new multifaceted effort, RISE (Research, Integration, Strategy and Evaluation) for Boys and Men of Color, has launched to identify and…
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First Named Professorship Established at John Jay With Funding From Ford Foundation and Atlantic
Source: John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Renowned Scholar Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff is appointed as Franklin A. Thomas Professor in Policing Equity [caption id="attachment_75797" align="alignright" width="295"] Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff[/caption]New York, NY – President Jeremy Travis of John Jay College announced the establishment of the Franklin A. Thomas Professorship in Policing…
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Zero-Tolerance Policy Creates a School-to-Prison Pipeline
Source: New America Media
Interview by Jacob SimasEDITOR'S NOTE: Schools across the nation are increasingly adopting punitive measures as a way to control and deter violence and other disruptive behaviors. These “zero-tolerance” policies can encompass anything from metal detectors to increased police presence on school campuses to the handing…
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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…
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Atlantic Grantees Working for Human Rights
International Human Rights Day on 10 December marks the 63rd year of global recognition of our basic human equality and the continuous struggle to gain basic human rights for all individuals. Reconciliation & Human Rights made up the largest portion of Atlantic's 2010 grantmaking programmes — funding…
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Speak Up for Health Coverage for Kids in the U.S.: Join the National Voice for Children
Source: Gara LaMarche
I’m visiting Atlantic’s programmes in Viet Nam right now, and a few days ago a provincial health official proudly told a group of us that the Government recently made health care free for all of the nine million Vietnamese children under the age of six.…
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The Global Financial Crisis and Philanthropy: Altering Course in a Perfect Storm
Source: Gara LaMarche
The roots of the global financial crisis, and the paths out of it, are matters for debate. But what no one disputes is that the landscape in which foundations like Atlantic are working has been dramatically altered, and likely will be for some time to…
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