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Forum Mourns Tragedy at Immigrant Center in Binghamton, New York
Source: National Immigration Forum
The National Immigration Forum is an Atlantic grantee. Washington, DC The following is a statement by Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum, a non-Partisan pro-immigrant advocacy organization based in Washington. What happened in Binghamton is a horrific tragedy. It appears that an…
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'Moral argument belongs at the center of the immigration debate'
Source: Boston Review
by Gara LaMarche Joseph Carens’s proposal is so eminently humane and sensible, and so thoughtfully put, that it is possible to forget while reading it just why it is extremely controversial. Amid the anti-immigrant ravings of Lou Dobbs, the immigration debate in the United States…
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Atlantic Grantees in Texas Work to End a Lethal Lottery
Source: Gara LaMarche
When I arrived in Austin, Texas, the day after Labor Day in 1984 to take up my post as Executive Director of the Texas state branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, a 30-year old Yankee who’d never set foot in the state before my…
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Video Advocacy - It's Easier than it Looks
Source: Georgetown Center for Children and Families
By Adam Searing, North Carolina Justice CenterRecently my colleague Adam Linker and I had the opportunity from our friends here at the Georgetown Center for Children and Families and Atlantic Philanthropies to leave the North Carolina Justice Center and travel to other state capitols around the country. Packing…
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Hate Campaigns Can’t Block Overdue Steps Toward Fair Treatment of Immigrants
Source: Gara LaMarche
Barack Obama’s campaign gave hope to millions of immigrants and their leading advocates. Atlantic has been proud to support and stand with these groups in the long campaign for comprehensive immigration reform. But that hope has been strained of late, and it is time to…
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As We Enter 2008, a Look Back Shows Policy Gains for Atlantic Grantees
Source: Gara LaMarche
The end of one year and the start of the next is a traditional time for looking both back and forward, and a good time to check in with readers of this column – an unusual experiment in philanthropy that we started in July, a…
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By Design: Art and Architecture Signal Cornell Tech Mission
Source: Cornell Chronicle
With architectural design and aesthetics reflecting its mission of collaboration and innovation, Cornell Tech is dedicating a new type of urban campus on Roosevelt Island in the heart of New York City.
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A Look At Our Work in Viet Nam
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
A look back at Atlantic's more than 15 years of work in Viet Nam, helping to improve higher education, health care and public health for people too long deprived of those fundamental public goods. > View the full version of this video > Read the…
Resource type: Video
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A Look At Our Work in South Africa
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
A look back at Atlantic's work in South Africa promoting and activating essential values of justice, equality, learning and health in a still-emerging multiracial democracy. Learn More The Atlantic Philanthropies in South Africa: 1991–2013
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Senior Housing Issues, Successful Programs Take Center Stage at Atlanta Training Institute
Source: Neighborworks America
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…
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