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This article from The Washington Post highlights several Atlantic Children & Youth programme grantees that are working at the local, state and national level to reform zero-tolerance disciplinary policies, which harm children by punishing any rule infraction, regardless of severity or circumstances, and often use…

 Over $200 million invested to-date to address racial disparities in life outcomes   Additional $70 million earmarked for school discipline, criminal justice and Elev8 grantees February 27, 2014 – The Atlantic Philanthropies announced today that they have joined with the White House and nine other leading…

(This media advisory was released on July 7th, 2010)  U.S. Department of Education’s Alberto Retana, director of community outreach, will visit Chicago Public Schools’ Orozco Academy and Perspectives-Calumet Middle School to interact with students and parents who are benefitting from the schools’ community resources and…

By Jose Beduya The Atlantic Philanthropies, created by Charles F. Feeney ’56, made its very first grant in 1982 to Cornell University. By the end of this year, the foundation will conclude its grant-making, realizing the full impact of the foundation’s largesse within its founder’s…

Original Source The sound of a prison door slamming shut reverberates well beyond America’s correctional facilities—it impacts the children of incarcerated parents across the country. To help these children cope and prevent the cycle of incarceration, gospel singer and minister Wintley Phipps founded the U.S. Dream…

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…

A program new to Baltimore is aiming to help nearly 500 families on the east side succeed by focusing specifically on its young people. City, school system and community leaders welcomed a $12 million grant from the Atlantic Philanthropies yesterday to implement Elev8 [pronounced "elevate"].…

I asked a high school kid walking along Commonwealth Avenue if he knew who the vice president of the United States was. He thought for a moment and then said, "No." I told him to take a guess. He thought for another moment, looked at…

On 26 February 2011 at Howard University in Washington DC, over 350 youth from across the country convened at the “Voices in Action: National Youth Summit” to help the United States’ Department of Education shape its strategies to achieve President Obama’s goal of having the…

Harlem Children's Zone is an Atlantic grantee. by Joe Smydo John Wallace, a professor who's spent more than two years planning the Homewood Children's Village, said his proposal to provide comprehensive social services to neighborhood children could be operational within 18 months. "I think we…