Results List
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Ensuring That Vital Resources for the Poor Aren’t “Left on the Table”
Source: Gara LaMarche
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…
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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Shared education in NI proposed to save costs
Source: BBC
An economic consultancy has said shared education could help Northern Ireland schools survive the harsh funding cuts which are expected. Oxford Economics said excess capacity in schools is partly due to having different schools for both Protestants and Catholics in the same communities. It argues…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic Joins the White House and Leading Foundations to Expand Opportunities for Young Men of Color
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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…
Resource type: News
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Nursing and Dental Faculty and Students Engage in Oakland School-Based Clinics
Source: UCSF Science of Caring
Karen Duderstadt with students at James Madison Middle School (photo by Elisabeth Fall) By Martha RossTwo eighth-graders come running into the health clinic at James Madison Middle School in East Oakland. The boys have an emergency of sorts. They want to know if they can borrow stethoscopes. Standing at…
Resource type: News
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Declaration of the Civil Society Conference held on 27-28 October 2010, Boksburg, South Africa
Source: The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
The Civil Society Conference held on 27-28 October 2010 was a historic turning point in the history of South Africa. Over 300 delegates from 56 mass-based civil society organisations, with a combined membership of millions of South Africans, came together to rebuild a strong, mass…
Resource type: News
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Philanthropy's Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline
Source: American Educator
By Kavitha Mediratta Last year, at the beginning of ninth grade, my son's friend Emmanuel was suspended from school for bringing a brick to class. Emmanuel had found the brick in the schoolyard, and with the satirical wit of a 14-year-old, named it "Softie" and…
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Government Promises to End the Detention of Minors in an Adult Regime
Source: Children's Rights Alliance
Statement from Children's Rights Alliance By Tanya Ward, Chief Executive of Children's Rights Alliance The Children's Rights Alliance congratulates the Government’s promise to end the detention of 16- and 17-year-old boys in St. Patrick’s Institution. This is a momentous achievement for the Minister for Children…
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Using Long-Range Planning to Fix a Long-Term Problem
The Dublin suburb of Tallaght West is on the Irish Government’s short list of socially and economically disadvantaged areas. Not surprisingly, services for children in this neighbourhood are limited and fragmented. Local preschools can accommodate only 300 of the 1,500 applicants. Policy and practice in…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Initiative to support disadvantaged children receives Presidential endorsement
Source: TWCDI
29th September 2010: President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, attended the Tallaght Stadium today to mark the success of the Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative, which will support more than 2,000 children through its innovative programmes by 2011. The €15million initial phase of the project has…
Resource type: News