Results List
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Teaching Kids Whole-Life Skills
Source: Washington Post
At the Arts and Technology Academy in Northeast, sex education is taking a distinctly different tack. Moving far beyond anatomy, educators at the charter school are using what they call an "above the waist" approach to help prevent teen pregnancy. Teacher Willa Reinhard walks around…
Resource type: News
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Report from the Heartland: Elections as Opportunities for Unheard Voices
Source: Gara LaMarche
I just got back from Des Moines, Iowa, where I watched and listened as low-income people, all too often ignored in elections, took the opportunity to raise issues of concern to them with the leading Democratic Presidential candidates (the Republicans were invited, too, but none…
Resource type: News
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The Role of Foundations in Immigrant Rights
The rights of immigrants must be protected and foundations can use their unique strengths to play a leading role such as funding public education and civic engagement, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies' President and CEO, in this speech at the European Foundation Centre Meeting…
Resource type: Speech
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Introducing Atlantic Currents
Source: Gara LaMarche
Since the announcement a few months ago of my appointment as President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, I've had an unusual opportunity to hear what many people know - and don't know - about us. Some only know that we were once the "anonymous…
Resource type: News
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Families Wrestle With Closing Foundations
Source: Wall Street Journal
By Sally Beatty Wealthy families are setting up new philanthropic foundations in increasing numbers, but they are also shutting them down at an accelerating pace. Some of the biggest names in philanthropy are backing the idea of setting a time limit on their giving: The…
Resource type: News
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Unstuck in the Middle
Source: The Washington Post
By Jay Matthews FOR MANY AMERICAN PARENTS, MIDDLE SCHOOL HAS BECOME SOMETHING TO DREAD. They hear that even the fancy private middle schools that charge $20,000 a year will be one of two things: a lockdown prison or an anything-goes playpen. Educators have mostly given…
Resource type: News
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How Will We Reach the 'Tipping Point' in a New Movement for Older Americans?
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
At the beginning of every nonprofit movement - whether it succeeds or fails - the founders probably feel like Odysseus. No matter how much momentum you start with, and how many battles you win in creating an idea and whipping up enthusiasm for it, actually…
Resource type: News
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Commission Promotes Age Discrimination Laws
Source: Equality Commission for Northern Ireland
Commission Promotes Age Discrimination Laws The Equality Commission today (Monday 2 October) launched a campaign promoting new age discrimination laws which protect workers, job seekers and vocational trainees from discrimination because of their age. The launch in Equality House, Belfast was attended by Minister of…
Resource type: News
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The Architect's Philanthropist
Source: Architect
As communities all over the world grapple with systemic inequities embedded in the fabric of our neighborhoods and nations more than ever, we need investment from the philanthropic sector to create alternative methods of funding and support for nonprofits to bring bold ideas beautifully into…
Resource type: News
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Lysa John announced as new Executive Director of the Atlantic Institute
Source: Atlantic Institute
Lysa John has been named as the new Executive Director of the Atlantic Institute, following a high impact career at CIVICUS, Save the Children and the U.N. She has been an advocate for equity and the power of international collaboration for over two decades. Supporting…
Resource type: News
