Results List
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Investment to Build New Generation of Leaders
Source: Pursuit
Fellowship program, driven by $US50 million grant, will drive change from grass roots up to redress social disadvantage
Resource type: News
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Stepping Into the Fight: Legal Advocacy for Funders and Nonprofits
Legal advocacy – also known as advocacy through the courts – uses the judicial system to advance social change goals. This is often done through bringing forward a legal case in court that focuses on improving a situation for a particular group of disadvantaged people.…
Resource type: Research Report
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Childhood Intervention Programme Sees Kids’ IQ Soar
Source: Irish Examiner
An early childhood intervention programme, involving 200 Dublin families, saw children’s IQ rise by 10 points. [caption id="attachment_77213" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Marian Dennis and her son Jamie McClure Dennis. Picture: Conor Healy Photography[/caption] By Joyce Fegan The trial programme, Preparing for Life, which ran from 2008…
Resource type: News
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Welcome to the School of Resiliency
It’s a Thursday morning in mid- December and Betsye Steele, principal of Ralph J. Bunche High School, is holding her weekly new-student orientation session. She sits at the small table in her office talking with Antwon, the school’s newest student, and his grandfather. As they…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Roosevelt Middle School: Bridging Cultures, Creating Community
A small blue and green globe is passed from hand to hand as parents, staff, and community partners introduce themselves and share about a cultural tradition or characteristic that they’re proud of – and that they want other members of their school community to understand…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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GW Health Workforce Institute Receives $5.5 Million to Advance Health Workforce Equity Issue
Source: The George Washington University
WASHINGTON, DC (March 9, 2016)— Researchers at the George Washington University’s (GW) Health Workforce Institute today announced a $5.5 million award from The Atlantic Philanthropies to promote health workforce equity by identifying, connecting and preparing leaders in the field to advance social mission in health professions education.…
Resource type: News
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Scanning the Skyline: Lessons From 30 Years of Capital Grantmaking
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
Buildings have a special allure for philanthropy—their mass, their unambiguous reality, their durability, their promise of sheltering great transformative enterprise—that few other achievements can match. They also conjure a cloud of distinctive risks: the possibility of inadequate maintenance, financial drain, premature obsolescence, the danger that…
Resource type: News
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The Smart State: How Bioscience Revitalized Queensland, Australia
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Photo: Alicia Rawlings, PhD student and research assistant, fits a geodesic sensor net on the head of a patient. The electrodes in the sensor nets are used to pick up brainwaves just below the scalp.[/caption] “Before Atlantic came with this investment…
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Reforming School Discipline Policies to Improve Children's Success
Source: Grantmakers In Health
By Kavitha Mediratta Head of Racial Equity Programmes, The Atlantic Philanthropies In recent months, we have seen an outpouring of protest by communities of color against aggressive policing and the trauma and violence these tactics engender. A similar phenomenon is occurring in our schools, where…
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Retaining an Engaged Staff to the End
Source: GrantCraft
This post by Maria Pignataro Nielsen, Atlantic's Chief Human Resources Officer, is part of GrantCraft's "Making Change by Spending Down" series. Although Atlantic is often referred to as a “spend down” foundation, we think of ourselves as a limited life foundation, with our final years…
Resource type: News