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June 30 expansion of CHAMP Program web site includes new online community features, best practices, resources, and tools 01 Jul 2009 New York, NY (PRWEB) July 1, 2009 - To improve the quality of home care services for older persons, the Center for Home Care…

Harlem Children’s Zone and Teach for America are Atlantic grantees, and Bonnie CLAC is an Atlantic grantee via the Purpose Prize. by Foon Rhee President Obama this afternoon praised a New Hampshire nonprofit that helps poor people buy fuel-efficient reliable cars in a White House event designed to highlight innovative programs…

AARP is an Atlantic grantee. by Bob Moos Kay Paggi has been the bearer of bad news more times than she cares to remember. The senior-care coordinator has helped hundreds of Dallas families find long-term care for frail parents. Almost always, they think Medicare will…

Original Source   America's Promise Alliance is an Atlantic grantee.   In contrast to most students who drop out, many educators do not believe that students at risk of dropping out would work harder if more were demanded of them, revealing an "expectations gap" that…

Original Source AARP and Civic Ventures are Atlantic grantees. By: Rob Gurwitt It was not a promising start. Getting ready to head out for the Utah wilderness, Lee Verner had packed her clothes in a black bag, laid it down on a black chair and…

Watch Online  Atlantic grantee Ben Cashdan of Broad Daylight Films, has produced two excellent shows: one on the South African elections (taking place on Wednesday, April 22) and the other on the ongoing crisis in Zimbabwe, now available for viewing online.  About THE BIG DEBATE…

Center supports programs that give participants choice and control over their home and community-based services and supports BOSTON—The Boston College Graduate School of Social Work launched a new technical assistance center that offers states the tools they need to implement a wide variety of participant-directed long-term care…

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…

Original Source A program bringing young people, adults, education, faith communities and civic and business organizations together continues Thurs., March 19 at Bay View Elementary school. Billed as “An Intergenerational Community Conversation,” the group will discuss what life is like as a teenager now and…

Original Source by Victoria Colliver, Chronicle Staff Writer UCSF Medical Center has received a $125 million donation, among the largest in its history, to help build a planned $1.68 billion hospital to provide services to women, children and cancer patients near its Mission Bay biomedical complex,…