Results List
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Letters to the Editor: Philanthropy and Racism
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Original Source To the Editor: Structural-racism training programs have helped hundreds of nonprofit organizations and community foundations, many of which are administered or operated by white people but primarily serve people of color, learn how to orient their theories of change from charity to empowerment…
Resource type: News
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Integrated Education: Essential to a Shared Future in Northern Ireland
Source: Gara LaMarche
Last week in Belfast, on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Good Friday peace agreement, I sat down with Tina Merron and Sam Fitzsimmons, who are among the leaders of a bold effort to ensure that Catholics and Protestants in this long-contested region…
Resource type: News
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Finished, But Not Done
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
As Atlantic wraps up its work, including completing our grantmaking this year, one of our final acts is to invest in a community of emerging leaders whose efforts to build a better world will outlast the foundation.
Resource type: News
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Southern Education Foundation Launches Racial Equity Leadership Network
Source: Southern Education Foundation
In districts all over the United States, race and class remain among the most reliable predictors of student success in school. Currently, in southern states, more than half of all the students enrolled in public school are from low-income families, with a growing number of…
Resource type: News
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Announces the Atlantic Fellows Program and Creation of the Atlantic Institute to Sustain Global Network of Changemakers
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Initiatives will empower and connect dynamic individuals committed to working together across disciplines and borders to advance fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies. NEW YORK, June 1, 2016 — The Atlantic Philanthropies today announced two multi-decade investments, totaling nearly $200 million, to equip innovative leaders and…
Resource type: News
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Growling and Kicking for Social Change
It is time for Americans to bring together two powerful forces that are often disconnected - the desire to serve and the necessity to take social action to change systems that often give rise to the need for these services, said Gara LaMarche, President and…
Resource type: Speech
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The State of our Union in Crisis: Widening the Lens of Children and Families
Keynote speech by Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, given at the Annual Conference of Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. This is an extraordinary moment to gather and reflect, as we have planned to do…
Resource type: Speech
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Philanthropic Partnership: Improving the lives of our Fellow-citizens
Source: Council on Foundations
Link to Video This year's Council on Foundations conference, titled "Philanthropy's Vision: A Leadership Summit," took place May 4-7, 2008 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. At the Monday, May 5 luncheon plenary, "Philanthropic Partnership: Improving the…
Resource type: News
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LA Unified to Collect Suspension Data Down to Classroom, Teacher Level
Source: KPCC
By Tami AbdollahL.A. Unified plans to begin collecting data on suspension rates at the individual classroom and teacher level starting this summer as part of its effort to improve its schools, a district official said today. "It starts at the classroom level," said Isabel Villalobos,…
Resource type: News
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Reactions to Obama's plan to restructure the housing market
Source: Washington Post
By Sarah Halzack. The Obama administration released a white paper on Friday that proposes winding down mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and lessening the government's role in the housing finance system. The Post's Zachary Goldfarb has a full report on the plan and…
Resource type: News