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Atlantic Philanthropies Awards Foundations' Center for Afterschool Education
Source: Center for Afterschool Education
The Center for Afterschool Education Receives $2.3 Million Grant to Support Professional Development of More Than 5,000 Staff and Leaders of Out-of-School Time Programs. Moorestown, NJ --The Center for Afterschool Education at Foundations Inc., an organization that offers professional development, technical assistance, tools and publications…
Resource type: News
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Reform of Health Care Has New Ally; National Coalition to Put $40 Million; Behind Advocacy
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By GUY BOULTON An array of unions and liberal activist groups in Wisconsin have joined a national coalition that plans to spend $40 million to push for health care reform, particularly universal coverage, in the coming election. The Health Care for America Now coalition, a…
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Refugees Out in Cold After Funds Dry Up
Source: Cape Argus (Cape Town)
19 Jun 2008 By Natasha Prince Several of the Caledon Square group of refugees were back on the streets on Wednesday night, geared up to sleep in the rain outside the Cape Town magistrate's court after the Treatment Action Campaign ran out of funds to…
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Back to Basics: More charities are seeking - and getting - operating support
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Original Source By Elizabeth Schwinn When Earl Martin Phalen started Building Educated Leaders for Life, a program that prepares Boston inner-city students for college, he found it easy to persuade foundations to pay for tutors and books. But few would give him money for the…
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COMMUNITY HELPERS
Source: The Oregonian
The Life by Design Northwest program received $200,000 from Meyer Memorial Trust to be used for engaging older adults in volunteer and nonprofit work. In February, the program received $825,000 from the Atlantic Philanthropies. The Oregon Community Foundation awarded grants totaling $633,508 to 25 Oregon…
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Making Technology Meaningful
Source: Youth Today
After-school programs learn how to make kids conversant in the language of the digital age. Original Source by Deborah Huso OK, so you have computers in your after-school program. Now, what do the kids do with them? If they do some Web research and play…
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Research Forum on Quality After-School Programs for Middle School Students
Source: The Center for After-School Excellence
In November, 2007 the Center sponsored the second in an on-going series of research forums in which after-school practitioners learn from leading scholars about pressing issues in their field. The topic was achieving quality and maximizing outcomes for middle school students who attend after-school programs.…
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Philanthropy’s Role in Ageing Issues
The Atlantic Philanthropies’ approach to funding in ageing, including its emphasis on advocacy, is outlined in this speech by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Annual Meeting of Grantmakers in Aging in San Diego, California in November 2007. When I was asked a…
Resource type: Speech
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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…
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Awards Child Trends $2.2 Million, Four Year Grant
Source: Child Trends
Grant Will Fund Research-to-Results: Improving Policies and Practices for Youth Development THE ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES AWARDS CHILD TRENDS $2.2 MILLION, FOUR–YEAR GRANT Grant Will Fund Research-to-Results: Improving Policies and Practices for Youth Development Washington, DC— Child Trends announced today that it will receive a $2.2 million,…
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