Results List
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Why on Earth Would a Foundation Try to Get Rid of All of Its Money?
The reasons behind The Atlantic Philanthropies’ decision to spend all of its endowment are outlined in this 2009 speech by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Annual Meeting of Delaware Valley Grantmakers in Philadelphia. My talk this afternoon poses the question, which I…
Resource type: Speech
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Change Comes to Washington: Will it Come to Philanthropy, Too?
Philanthropy should step up and seize the unprecedented opportunities created by the election of President Obama, said Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, in this speech at the Annual Meeting of Southern California Grantmakers in Los Angeles. When the terrific Sushma Raman –…
Resource type: Speech
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The Purpose Prize: Often the Best Chapters are the Later Ones
Source: Gara LaMarche
When Gordon Johnson was a teenager, his Dad took in two nieces and two nephews whose parents were unable to care for them. He never forgot his father’s big-spirited act, or the neglect by government care agencies that made it necessary. Mr. Johnson pursued a…
Resource type: News
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The Fierce Urgency of Atlantic: Bending the Arc in Our Final Years
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
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…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic Philanthropies
Source: The Royal Gazette
By Kristin White For many years there has been a Secret Santa of sorts for our local nonprofits.When their good works caught the eye of this secret benefactor, they would be blessed with financial grants upwards of one hundred thousand dollars.In the nonprofit community, this…
Resource type: News
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Americans of All Ages Are Ready for Citizen Service: Are Politicians Ready to Lead Them?
Source: Gara LaMarche
This morning Senators John McCain and Barack Obama suspended their intense competition for the Presidency to visit Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, in tribute to those who lost their lives on a brilliantly sunny New York morning seven years ago today. And tonight they will…
Resource type: News
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Building Capacity for Maximum Impact
Gara LaMarche delivers the Keynote Address at the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York Symposium: Baruch College School of Public Affairs. It’s a little odd that I should be standing here this morning to share some thoughts about the role of evaluation in foundations…
Resource type: Speech
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Interview - Christopher Oechsli
Source: Alliance magazine
The Atlantic Philanthropies is coming to the end of its life as a grantmaking foundation. It is due to complete its grantmaking by 2016 and close its doors by 2020 – the largest foundation ever to spend out. Caroline Hartnell talked to Atlantic president and…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic Grantees Working for Human Rights
International Human Rights Day on 10 December marks the 63rd year of global recognition of our basic human equality and the continuous struggle to gain basic human rights for all individuals. Reconciliation & Human Rights made up the largest portion of Atlantic's 2010 grantmaking programmes — funding…
Resource type: News
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Charitable Relations
Source: The American Prospect
Philanthropy adapts to the Obama era. Original Source by Lauren Foster Last November, two weeks after Barack Obama was elected president, Gara LaMarche took to the podium at the annual meeting of Southern California Grantmakers. The president and chief executive of The Atlantic Philanthropies was…
Resource type: News
