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By Sam Scott.  Al and Marshae Rivera keep their home stocked with candy—all the better to stop their kids from venturing out to buy some themselves. No one knows better than they do that in East Oakland, Calif., even short trips can turn violent. Their…

Pediatric nurse practioner Beatriz Coll, left, with the Vallejo City Unified School District's student health clinics at Elsa Widenmann Elementary School, introduces patients Giuliana and Francesca Jacobucci, 8 and 6 respectively, to Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, during Thursday's visit to the clinics. (MIKE JORY…

By Jesse White-Fres, Connecticut Association of School Based Health Centers StatewideTop officials with the School-Based Health Alliance applaud President Obama for inspiring philanthropic and corporate communities to invest more deeply in the success of young minority men, and offer a model that could be key to achieving…

Helping vulnerable and disadvantaged people to make lasting changes in their living conditions is at the core of Atlantic’s mission, and in every country in which we work there is significant and sometimes – as in the United States – growing inequality. The persistence of…

Remarks of Jackie Williams Kaye, Strategic Learning & Evaluation Executive, The Atlantic Philanthropies, at the New Mexico Convening of Integrated Services in Schools (ISS).  I am very happy to be here on behalf of Atlantic together with my colleagues Mini, Nicole and Alice. Alice Duff…

The reasons why The Atlantic Philanthropies made what may be the largest U.S. advocacy grant ever in order to support health reform are outlined by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Grantmakers in Health conference in Orlando, Florida. Occasionally it is better not…

Thirteen years ago, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ founding chairman Chuck Feeney and our Board of Directors made the decision to complete our grantmaking by the end of 2016. That seemed a long time away. The distant target has now become next year. After extended deliberations during this…

By Kavitha MedirattaZero tolerance school discipline policies leave young men of color most vulnerable -- but it doesn't have to be that way.All young people should have the opportunity to succeed. It's a fundamentally American argument, and also the core value of the initiative that…

Join Us for a National Teleconference: Keeping Our Promise: How Can Funders Support Promise Neighborhoods to Increase Educational Opportunity in Distressed Communities? Date:  Wednesday, August 4, 2010 Time:  3:00 – 4:00 pm, EDT The U.S. Department of Education's Promise Neighborhoods Program aims to significantly improve…

I’ve just returned from Denver, Colorado, where the annual conference of the Council on Foundations ended Tuesday.  A significant theme of the conference this year, which Atlantic helped to organise, was what foundations can do to advance social justice.  I was honoured to moderate a…