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Original Source United Way International and Communities in Schools are Atlantic grantees. By Judith K. McGinnis Any number of things can affect a student’s school performance. Raging hormones. Conflicts at home. Experimenting with drugs or alcohol. A new pilot program funded by the United Way…

Original Source and Video Broadcast: 30/07/2009 Reporter: Kerry O'Brien Quietly spoken American billionaire Chuck Feeney has flown under the public radar for most of his long and very successful life. Over decades he built an international empire of duty free stores, but in the eighties,…

Original Source The University of KwaZulu-Natal is an Atlantic grantee. by MICHELLE FAUL South Africa is launching clinical trials of the first HIV/Aids vaccines created by a developing country, a feat by scientists who forged ahead even when some of their political leaders shocked the…

Despite extraordinary progress which has lifted 600 million people out of poverty in Asia since 1990, the basic right to health is under threat and the future looks more uncertain, says University of New South Wales professor of Health and Human Rights, Daniel Tarantola. "The…

Communities In Schools is an Atlantic grantee. ARLINGTON, Va., July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Communities In Schools, the nation's largest dropout prevention organization, has received a major grant from the Walmart Foundation to improve educational opportunities for young people through its network of Performance Learning Centers…

Today in an event in the East Room of the White House, President Obama highlighted innovative non-profit programmes that are making a difference in communities across the country. Programmes such asHarlem Children’s Zone (an Atlantic grantee), Teach for America (an Atlantic grantee), HopeLab, Genesys Works, and Bonnie CLAC (an Atlantic…

Volume VII, No. 6 of the U.S. Department of Education's Education Innovator newsletter features three Atlantic grantees from our Children & Youth Programme: Communities in Schools, Coalition for Community Schools, and Harlem Children's Zone. To read the issue, download the PDF below.

Forum on Migration and Communications (FOMACS) is an Atlantic grantee. Interest in European elections is traditionally low, but not in Ireland, where political and economic crises have animated voters. Meanwhile, in local elections, also on 5 June, the immigrant community has become a vibrant new…

The National Center for Summer Learning is an Atlantic grantee. by Niesha Lofing School may be out for the summer, but that doesn't mean knowledge gained during the year needs to be lost forever. Summer brain drain is a real phenomenon -- and a lurking…

By Colin Riley (Boston) Boston University's Institute for Geriatric Social Work (IGSW), a national leader in training social workers in competencies related to aging, has received a five-year, $3.1-million extension grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) to continue the institute's trail-blazing efforts to prepare the…