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Up Close: Blogging from South Africa
Source: Gara LaMarche and Jack Rosenthal
Night and a Day in QueenstownPosted by Gara LaMarche | 18 March 2011, South AfricaAs Jack has chronicled, we arrived in Queenstown, the final leg of our journey in the Eastern Cape, in the dark, around 7 p.m. This was a problem for two reasons. First, we’d…
Resource type: News
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The writing is on the wall for child literacy
Source: Irish Examiner
By Eleanor McCloreyChild literacy is not a priority on the political or public agenda. This must change, writes Eleanor McClorey IT’S time to spell it out — Ireland has a child literacy emergency. One afternoon last month four children from Ballymun were collected from primary…
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Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Taking a big risk in grantmaking has paid off hugely for Ireland and Atlantic by creating a competitive strategic research environment. By 1996, Atlantic had made major contributions to the country’s university educational infrastructure. Yet, Chuck Feeney, our Founding Chairman, envisioned a quantum leap to…
Resource type: News
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Improving access to justice through Public Interest Law Alliance
Source: Irish Times
By Larry Donnelly. "PUBLIC INTEREST law . . . what's that, an oxymoron?" So remarked broadcaster and Irish Times columnist Vincent Browne at a Dublin conference held by the Public Interest Law Alliance (Pila) last April. We in Pila, and in our parent organisation the…
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Initiative to support disadvantaged children receives Presidential endorsement
Source: TWCDI
29th September 2010: President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, attended the Tallaght Stadium today to mark the success of the Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative, which will support more than 2,000 children through its innovative programmes by 2011. The €15million initial phase of the project has…
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Field Dispatches: Winning Civil Partnerships in Ireland
Source: Q & A with the Gay & Lesbian Equality Network
In early July of this year, both houses of the Irish Parliament passed a landmark Civil Partnerships law, guaranteeing new rights to same-sex couples. The bill – “one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in 90 years” - was signed into law…
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CSI and social justice: towards partnership with northern donors?
Source: Published in The CSI Handbook, 10th edition, published by Trialogue, 2007
South African corporates have traditionally shied away from investment in human rights and social justice programmes. In this feature article, Colleen du Toit and Gerald Kraak from the Atlantic Philanthropies propose co-operation between northern donors and local companies to enhance the impact of mutual investments…
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Experience Corps Shows Improvement in Reading Scores
Source: Center for Social Development
Experience Corps, which pairs older adults in the United States with students who are struggling in school, showed statistically significant improvements in reading outcomes and was positively viewed by teachers, according to this evaluation commissioned by The Atlantic Philanthropies. Experience Corps is an Atlantic grantee.…
Resource type: Evaluation
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Harlem Children's Zone for Chicago?
Source: Catalyst Chicago
Original Source LISC Chicago, ISS (now Elev8), and Harlem Children's Zone are Atlantic grantees. Posted by Lorraine Forte In Government and Policy Three Chicago neighborhoods are taking the first steps toward potential replication of the Harlem Children’s Zone, the highly-praised program that provides education and…
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More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation
Source: Yahoo News / AP
KIPP and the National Center for Summer Learning are Atlantic grantees. By Libby Quaid, Ap Education Writer WASHINGTON – Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way. Obama says American kids spend too little…
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