Results List
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Building a Movement for Elder Women’s Advocacy
Source: The Womens Foundation of California
A report offers three key recommendations for California advocates and policymakers to follow to ensure that elder women age with well-being, dignity and economic security, according to this report on The Elder Women’s Initiative, a 2008 effort to build a movement led by elder women…
Resource type: Research Report
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Has Inclusiveness Taken Hold in Philanthropy?
How well are minorities represented within foundation staff and boards, and how well are the less advantaged served through grants? In June 2009, a group of nonprofit leaders had a candid panel discussion on diversity in philanthropy, referencing the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ new report, Philanthropy…
Resource type: News
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Time is of the Essence: Foundations and the Policies of Limited Life and Endowment Spend-Down
Five U.S. foundations that spent all of their assets offer lessons for modern donors who might also consider a limited lifespan for their foundations, according to this report by the Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation. Time is of the Essence: Foundations and…
Resource type: News
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Northern Ireland Has Much More to Accomplish in Human Rights
The Good Friday Agreement represented a critical step forward for human rights in Northern Ireland, but it is essential to focus on what hasn’t yet been accomplished, said Martin O'Brien, Programme Director, Reconciliation & Human Rights Programme at The Atlantic Philanthropies, in this speech at…
Resource type: Speech
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Antenatal HIV prevalence at 'unacceptable' 29%
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
Original Source HIV prevalence among pregnant women has stabilised at about 29%, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Monday. "The prevalence among women aged 25 and above has stabilised at high and unacceptable levels," Motsoaledi said in Pretoria, releasing the 2008 results of a survey…
Resource type: News
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South African Children Push for Better Schools
Source: The New York Times
Equal Education is an Atlantic grantee. By CELIA W. DUGGER CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Thousands of children marched to City Hall this week in sensible black shoes, a stream of boys and girls from township schools across this seaside city that extended for blocks,…
Resource type: News
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Research led by NUI Maynooth proves the Power of Positive Parenting
Source: Archways / Incredible Years programme
Archways and the Incredible Years programme are Atlantic Children & Youth Programme grantees via the Clondalkin Partnership. Archways, is today (Monday, 21st Sept) launching the first set of findings from the Incredible Years BASIC parent training programme for children aged 3-6yrs. The Incredible Years (IY)…
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…
Resource type: News
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Schools sharing across the community in ground-breaking pilot scheme
Source: The Fermanagh Herald
The Fermanagh Trust Shared Education Programme is an Atlantic grantee. The new term in Fermanagh's schools has got off to an exciting start, with teachers and pupils involved actively in a range of new shared education projects, under the Fermanagh Trust Shared Education Programme (FTSEP).…
Resource type: News
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SA won't meet ARV roll-out target, says Motsoaledi
Source: Mail & Guardian online
by PEROSHNI GOVENDER South Africa will not meet a target of providing life-prolonging drugs to 80% of people living with HIV/Aids by 2011 due to logistical problems and a lack of personnel, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Tuesday. "We are now covering 700 000…
Resource type: News