Results List
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Ready to Learn: Working in Partnership with Schools and Families to Help Raise Achievement
Source: Institute of Child Care Research, Queen’s University Belfast
Completing school is a fundamental task in order to succeed in life. Yet too many children from disadvantaged backgrounds fall behind soon after they start school and never catch up. A programme designed to help young children get the start they need has shown promising…
Resource type: Research Report
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Cohort Capacity Building: Is the Sector Ready?
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
by Anne ShermanEarlier this month, I had the privilege of learning from four really smart and experienced people who participated in a panel discussion that TCC Group, a global management consulting firm, presented in New York City, called, “Casting A Wider Net: Effective and Affordable…
Resource type: News
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Simmons College Receives $1.8 Million to Ready New Generation of Vietnamese Librarians for Leadership Roles
Source: PRNewswire
Simmons to help developing nation rebuild its information and education systems BOSTON, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Simmons College has received $1.8 million to prepare a new generation of Vietnamese librarians for key leadership positions to run some of the country's largest university libraries and help…
Resource type: News
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Rockland wins $100,000 grant, kicks off its piece of national youth collaborative initiative
Source: The Journal News
By Randi Weiner WEST NYACK - Rockland is one of four counties in New York to get money for a national program designed to help prepare kids for adulthood by improving the quality of youth programs already in place and getting those hundreds of separate…
Resource type: News
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Just and Fair Schools Fund Newsletter: July 2013
Source: Just and Fair Schools Fund
The Just and Fair Schools Fund (JFSF) supports grassroots organizing initiatives that work to eliminate harsh school discipline policies and practices - and that uphold the right to education for all youth. Our newsletter shares updates on parent-, youth-, and congregation-led victories, partner spotlights, news,…
Resource type: News
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What is Strategic Learning
Source: The Evaluation Exchange
and How Do You Develop an Organizational Culture that Encourages It? The Evaluation Exchange Volume XI, No. 2, Summer 2005 Issue Topic: Evaluation Methodology Ask the Expert John A. Healy, Director of Strategic Learning and Evaluation at The Atlantic Philanthropies, shares ways to position learning…
Resource type: News
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Curing Violence Starts at the Community Level
Source: Mediaplanet
Photo: Flickr via MediaPlanetBy Emily MorrowDavid* was a model eighth-grader. He had exemplary grades, a near perfect attendance record and scored well on all his state exams.Then, he made his first suicide threat.He was hospitalized for a day or so, but when doctors didn’t see…
Resource type: News
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The Key Role of Advocacy Funding in the U.S. Health Reform Debate
The reasons why The Atlantic Philanthropies made what may be the largest U.S. advocacy grant ever in order to support health reform are outlined by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Grantmakers in Health conference in Orlando, Florida. Occasionally it is better not…
Resource type: Speech
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Four Questions Funders Should Ask About Legal Advocacy
Source: TCC Group
Legal advocacy – also known as advocacy through the courts – uses the judicial system to advance social change goals. This is often done by bringing forward a legal case in court that focuses on improving a situation for a particular group of disadvantaged people. Brown…
Resource type: News
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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
