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The Center for Afterschool Education Receives $2.3 Million Grant to Support Professional Development of More Than 5,000 Staff and Leaders of Out-of-School Time Programs. Moorestown, NJ --The Center for Afterschool Education at Foundations Inc., an organization that offers professional development, technical assistance, tools and publications…

CAMDEN, N.J.—The Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers announced plans to establish a national center to improve care for high-need patients who experience poor outcomes despite extreme patterns of hospitalizations or emergency care. Inefficient and ineffective care of these patients has been identified as a driver…

Original Source A new survey commissioned by the non-profit National Council on Aging (NCOA), with support from The Atlantic Philanthropies and the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF), reveals a bleak and broken health care system for millions of Americans suffering from a variety of chronic conditions. The results…

An August 10 symposium on senior housing was the centerpiece of a week-long NeighborWorks Training Institute that attracted 2,100 community development practitioners to Atlanta. Sponsored by The Atlantic Philanthropies, the symposium brought together innovators from the affordable housing field with experts in aging to explore…

Original Source By STEPHANIE STROM Despite a worldwide economic decline, the nine-figure gift is not dead. Charles F. Feeney, the iconoclastic philanthropist known as “the billionaire who wasn’t,” is giving $125 million to the University of California San Francisco Medical Center to support development of a complex…

[caption id="attachment_19627" align="aligncenter" width="978"] Visitors at Constitution Hill look at the display at the Women's Goal Museum which used to house female political prisoners.[/caption] South Africa Atlantic began its work in racial equity in the nascent years of post-Apartheid South Africa. In 1991, Atlantic’s Founding…

Hurricane Fund for the Elderly Formed to Assist Older Adults in the Gulf Coast Region The federal Administration on Aging (AoA) has called upon the nation's leading aging organizations to provide much needed assistance to older adults affected by the recent hurricanes. In response to…

“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…

WASHINGTON, July 5 /PRNewswire/ -- HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced a $15 million collaboration with The Atlantic Philanthropies to improve the health and quality of life for older Americans at the community level. "This collaboration, led by the Administration on Aging (AoA) and involving…

To meet the needs of a growing number of seniors in Bermuda, policymakers can take two initial key initiatives:  establish a caregiver resource center and set up a care information service on community resources for physicians and others, according to this report commissioned by The…