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Original Source New America Media, AARP and the Urban Institute are Atlantic grantees. EthnicNEWz.org, News Report, Eduardo A. de Oliveira Hispanic workers 50-Plus are a vigorous group of “invisible boomers,” who could help employers solve projected labor shortfalls in the coming years, according to a…

New York, June 9, 2009 Vivien Labaton has been appointed Director of Strategic Programme Initatives at The Atlantic Philanthropies effective May 28, 2009. Labaton will work with Atlantic's four programs in seven countries to develop and implement their grantmaking strategies to achieve social justice and…

Hanoi (VNA) Vietnam may not achieve its Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on halting and reserving the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015 unless greater efforts of all stakeholders are mobilised. The warning is given in the recently-released national report on 2008 MDGs. The report said by…

By TAURIA RAYNORA building once used for illicit activity has been completely transformed by a grassroots organisation that provides free assistance to entrepreneurs.Youth on the Move (YOM) was founded on the principle that the ability to achieve something positive, is within everyone's reach.It's a message…

Original Source AmeriCorps, Civic Ventures, and City Year are Atlantic grantees. By Irene Sege When my parents retired, my father taught courses on linguistics and Kosovo and the philosophy of time at a volunteer-run institute for learning in retirement, and my mother picked up pocket…

Teach for America is an Atlantic grantee. Teach For America-Los Angeles has announced a four-year, $2 million grant from the Wasserman Foundation to help build a pipeline of leaders committed to closing the academic achievement gap in Los Angeles. Teach For America recruits and trains…

Efforts to increase child literacy has experts flocking to Ballymun, writes Gabrielle Monaghan Youngballymun and Barnardos are Atlantic grantees. Across the road from the Virgin Mary Girls' National School, some of Ballymun's last tower blocks stand half-empty. Roddy Doyle may have immortalised them in The…

Original Source Much credit goes to the Center for Summer Learning, an Atlantic grantee, as a ‘behind the scenes partner’ on the case. By Ben Fischer Call it summer school, supercharged. At 13 of Cincinnati's most persistently failing elementary schools, officials are aggressively courting students…

Original Source By Thomas F. Ferguson '74 By the time most people are 50, they have learned to spend less than they earn. Gara LaMarche '76 has had to unlearn that rule in his job as CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, a $4 billion global…

With unemployment figures on the rise and the economic recession wreaking havoc on retirement accounts, the Plus 50 Initiative at the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) is spearheading a movement by community colleges to help workers age 50 and over train for new jobs…