Results List
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Support This Bill
Source: Time Magazine
Original Source By Edward M. Kennedy and Orrin Hatch Imagine the enormous difference it would make to our communities and nation if every American served for a year with a community-service group, nonprofit enterprise or faith-based organization. This month we're introducing in the Senate the…
Resource type: News
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Building More Than Buildings in Northern Ireland
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Shay McAleer waiting for class to start at the School of Speech and Drama, a program that takes place at the Millenium Forum, Derry/Londonderry.[/caption] In a region still healing from political conflict, shared spaces for culture and education promote reconciliation and…
Resource type: News
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Defending Democracy and Delivering on the Constitution
Equal Education student members march for better school infrastructure. Photo: Equal Education Throngs of students protested outside the South African Parliament in Cape Town on a sunny afternoon in February 2011. Wearing green T-shirts and carrying handscrawled signs, they set up an outdoor classroom complete…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Suspensions more common for minority, disabled students
Source: California Watch
By Joanna LinRacial minorities and students with disabilities are suspended at substantially higher rates than their white and non-disabled peers, according to an analysis of discipline data from nearly 500 California school districts. Researchers said the disparities are a civil rights issue and cause for…
Resource type: News
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Mending the Safety Net
Source: Urbanite Baltimore Magazine
THE BIG IDEA: Lower-class children are bombarded with obstacles to success, not the least of which are higher rates of asthma, poorer nutrition, and less than adequate access to medical care. “Kids aren’t going to learn and succeed in school if they aren’t feeling well,”…
Resource type: News
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New Senior Staff Hires Strengthen Atlantic for Social Justice Mission and Spending Down Assets
Source: Gara LaMarche
I don’t usually use this space for organisational announcements, but we have recently made three new appointments to Atlantic’s senior staff, who together bring enormous strengths to our mission and each of whom illustrates something important about where the foundation is going in its final…
Resource type: News
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New program seeks to Elev8 east Balto. youth, families
Source: Baltimore Examiner
A program new to Baltimore is aiming to help nearly 500 families on the east side succeed by focusing specifically on its young people. City, school system and community leaders welcomed a $12 million grant from the Atlantic Philanthropies yesterday to implement Elev8 [pronounced "elevate"].…
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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Pupils show they have the write stuff
Source: The Sunday Times (London)
Efforts to increase child literacy has experts flocking to Ballymun, writes Gabrielle Monaghan Youngballymun and Barnardos are Atlantic grantees. Across the road from the Virgin Mary Girls' National School, some of Ballymun's last tower blocks stand half-empty. Roddy Doyle may have immortalised them in The…
Resource type: News
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Homewood 'Children's Zone' Vision Advocated
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania)
Harlem Children's Zone is an Atlantic grantee. by Joe Smydo John Wallace, a professor who's spent more than two years planning the Homewood Children's Village, said his proposal to provide comprehensive social services to neighborhood children could be operational within 18 months. "I think we…
Resource type: News