Results List
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Effort Urges Seniors With Chronic Conditions To Change Habits
Source: California Healthline
by George LauerIt's like traffic school for chronic offenders.The "traffic" in this case is healthy habits -- eating right, exercising, taking your meds. The chronic "offenders" are diabetes, arthritis and heart disease. The "school" is the pivotal part of a new statewide partnership with the…
Resource type: News
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Health Care for America Now: A New Campaign to Win Quality, Affordable Health Coverage for All in the U.S.
Source: Gara LaMarche
The public relations spin doctors for the U.S. health insurance industry, who are probably busy at work concocting the script for a TV commercial or Internet ad to sink comprehensive health care reform in 2009, ought to think again. You may remember the fictitious couple,…
Resource type: News
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The State of our Union in Crisis: Widening the Lens of Children and Families
Keynote speech by Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, given at the Annual Conference of Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. This is an extraordinary moment to gather and reflect, as we have planned to do…
Resource type: Speech
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Once Again a Senior, and Now What Are We Looking Forward To?
Source: Terry Kaelber, Community Experience Partnership
By Terry KaelberWednesday, August 21, is National Senior Citizens Day.Remember being a senior in high school or college? Figuring out what to do with our lives – identifying what was next – wasn’t easy. But there were resources available to help us understand and explore…
Resource type: News
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Senior Housing Issues, Successful Programs Take Center Stage at Atlanta Training Institute
Source: Neighborworks America
An August 10 symposium on senior housing was the centerpiece of a week-long NeighborWorks Training Institute that attracted 2,100 community development practitioners to Atlanta. Sponsored by The Atlantic Philanthropies, the symposium brought together innovators from the affordable housing field with experts in aging to explore…
Resource type: News
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Skills to Learn to Restart Earnings
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By JOHN LELAND JUSTIN WILLIAMS worked as an engineer at Honeywell International for 31 years, and when he retired last April, he knew he could not afford to stop working. His home in suburban Maryland, on which he had spent his 401(k) savings,…
Resource type: News
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What's at Stake -- No, Who's at Stake in the Great Supreme Court Case?
Source: National Council of La Raza
By Jennifer Ng’andu, Deputy Director, Health Policy, National Council of La RazaIt's probably the hottest seat in Washington, D.C. -- and you can't buy tickets to it. Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will begin hearing oral arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care…
Resource type: News
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Older Adults as Community Assets, or Taking an Encore in Maine
Source: Community Experience Partnership
Meredith Jones is President & CEO of the Maine Community Foundation, and a participant in the national Community Experience Partnership, an Atlantic grantee.Last week a member of U.S. Senator Susan Collins’ staff called to ask for my help. Senator Collins, who is the ranking member…
Resource type: News
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Constitutional Review Body Must Prioritise Inclusivity
Source: The Irish Times
By Michele BrandtOPINION: The Taoiseach has announced that Ireland is going to have a “constitutional convention”, which will examine the options for reform on a range of issues: review of the electoral system; reducing the presidential term to five years and aligning it with local and…
Resource type: News
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Supporting Initiatives By and For Women Is Critical To Achieving Social Justice
Source: Gara LaMarche
In their new book, “Half the Sky,” Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn assert that there can be no social or economic justice, or human rights progress around the world, that does not have women and girls at its core. It’s a…
Resource type: News
