Results List
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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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Getting Every Kid Covered – Learning from Cities’ Enrollment Successes
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
By Ben Kerman, Head of Strategic Learning and Evaluation Each year in the first full week of April, we celebrate National Public Health Week, a week dedicated to improving the health of the country and protecting the well-being of our children and future generations. As…
Resource type: News
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Communities for Just Schools Fund Newsletter: July 2015
Source: Communities for Just Schools Fund
The Communities for Just Schools Fund (CJSF) is a new national donor collaborative that supports constituency-led organizing efforts to create positive and supportive school climates, which affirm and foster the success of all students. Building upon the groundbreaking initiatives of the Just and Fair Schools…
Resource type: News
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One Year Into My Brother's Keeper – What We've Done and What's to Come
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
By Kavitha Mediratta Head of Racial Equity Programs The Atlantic Philanthropies As today's reports from President Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative and the Executives' Alliance for Boys and Men of Color make clear, tremendous work has been done in the past year. And much more…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic Joins the White House and Leading Foundations to Expand Opportunities for Young Men of Color
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Over $200 million invested to-date to address racial disparities in life outcomes Additional $70 million earmarked for school discipline, criminal justice and Elev8 grantees February 27, 2014 – The Atlantic Philanthropies announced today that they have joined with the White House and nine other leading…
Resource type: News
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On the Joint Initiative to Expand Opportunities for Young Men of Color
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
The Atlantic Philanthropies are pleased to join with our foundation partners, the White House and leading U.S. businesses to improve opportunities for the most disadvantaged among us. Our commitment to this initiative stems from our longstanding focus on promoting equal opportunity and racial equity in…
Resource type: News
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Program to Address Disparities in School Discipline Policies that Fuel “School to Prison Pipeline” in Four U.S. Cities
Source: Annenberg Institute for School Reform
PROVIDENCE – Brown University’s Annenberg Institute for School Reform (AISR) announced today a $1 million, two-year grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies, a limited-life foundation, to engage community and school-district partners in four major U.S. cities with the goal of addressing school discipline practices and policies that contribute…
Resource type: News
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Job Posting: Executive Director, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)
Source: Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group
Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) is an Atlantic grantee through the Population Health programme. Position DescriptionSearch for the Executive Director Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) Oakland, CAMedical Education Cooperation with Cuba (“MEDICC”), a highly regarded non-profit organization working to enhance cooperation among the US, Cuban and global…
Resource type: News
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Modern philanthropists do it their way
Source: The Australian
By Catherine Armitage.UNIVERSITIES hoping to reap the benefits of the latest golden age of wealth creation will need to stop complaining about these "wretched billionaires who want to get involved". That's the message, crudely put, from Matthew Bishop and Michael Green who argue in their…
Resource type: News
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New publication highlights programs that have helped young people complete high school, prepared for postsecondary education and
Source: American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF)
The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) recently released Success at Every Step: How 23 Programs Support Youth on the Path to College and Beyond. This publication identifies programs that have been proven to help young people successfully complete high school and be prepared for success…
Resource type: News
