Results List
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The World Will Remember Troy's Name
Source: NAACP
Originally posted on September 21, 2011 by Eric Wingerter, Director of New Media, NAACP. Read Troy's Last WordsTonight the State of Georgia has killed an innocent man.In recent weeks, we fought hard for the commutation of Troy Davis' sentence. More than one million of your petitions…
Resource type: News
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Sara Gould Joins the Foundation Center as Visiting Fellow
Source: The Foundation Center
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:Cheryl LoeCommunications Project ManagerThe Foundation Center(888) 356-0354, ext. 701communications@foundationcenter.orgNew York, NY — February 15, 2011. Sara K. Gould, former president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women, has joined the Foundation Center in the role of The Atlantic Philanthropies Senior Fellow. During this…
Resource type: News
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Parents Scramble as Ax Falls on After-School Programs
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Original Source Afterschool Alliance and The After-School Corporation are Atlantic grantees. By SUE SHELLENBARGER A critical safety net for working parents is unraveling, and many are bracing to pay a hefty price. As schools open their doors this month and next, closings and cutbacks at…
Resource type: News
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S. Africa Embraces Study Critical of Health Policy
Source: The New York Times
Original Source Several organisations involved in this report are Atlantic grantees: Save the Children, University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand, University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Pretoria, and University of the Western Cape. Funding for this publication was provided by Saving Newborn Lives/Save the…
Resource type: News
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The Harlem Miracle
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By DAVID BROOKSOp-Ed Columnist The fight against poverty produces great programs but disappointing results. You go visit an inner-city school, job-training program or community youth center and you meet incredible people doing wonderful things. Then you look at the results from the serious…
Resource type: News
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Maine and N.H. Move to Expand Gay Rights
Source: The Washington Post
Original Source By Keith B. RichburgWashington Post Staff WriterThursday, May 7, 2009 NEW YORK, May 6 -- Gay rights advocates celebrated swift and unexpected twin victories in New England on Wednesday when Maine became the fifth state to legalize same-sex marriage and New Hampshire's legislature…
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Vermont Legislature Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
Source: The Washington Post
Original Source By Keith B. RichburgWashington Post Staff Writer NEW YORK, April 7 -- Vermont on Tuesday became the fourth state to recognize gay marriage, and theD.C. Council voted to recognize same-sex unions performed in other states. The two actions give same-sex marriage proponents new…
Resource type: News
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What Role Should Foundations Play During The Recession?
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Original Source By Ian Wilhelm During a recent forum on grant making during a bad economy, participants debated whether foundations should focus their giving on social services or instead support advocacy efforts to influence the government. Two foundation leaders at the meeting at the Robert…
Resource type: News
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$125 Million Is Pledged to Big Medical Center
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By STEPHANIE STROM Despite a worldwide economic decline, the nine-figure gift is not dead. Charles F. Feeney, the iconoclastic philanthropist known as “the billionaire who wasn’t,” is giving $125 million to the University of California San Francisco Medical Center to support development of a complex…
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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