Results List
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Atlantic Grantees in Texas Work to End a Lethal Lottery
Source: Gara LaMarche
When I arrived in Austin, Texas, the day after Labor Day in 1984 to take up my post as Executive Director of the Texas state branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, a 30-year old Yankee who’d never set foot in the state before my…
Resource type: News
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Ensuring That Vital Resources for the Poor Aren’t “Left on the Table”
Source: Gara LaMarche
Helping vulnerable and disadvantaged people to make lasting changes in their living conditions is at the core of Atlantic’s mission, and in every country in which we work there is significant and sometimes – as in the United States – growing inequality. The persistence of…
Resource type: News
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Cover: The 25 Best Givers
Source: Barron's
With money tight, top philanthropists insist on more bang for the buck. Meet the 25 most effective givers. The KIPP Foundation is an Atlantic grantee. By Suzanne McGee. THE NAME OF THE GAME IN PHILANTHROPY this year is to make your dollars go far --…
Resource type: News
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Obama praises nonprofit, including N.H. group
Source: The Boston Globe
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…
Resource type: News
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Human Rights for Lesbians and Gays in the New South Africa: Still Much Work to Do
Source: Gara LaMarche
Zoliswa Nkonyana, Zizakele Sigasa, and Salome Masooa helped me to understand the critical importance of Atlantic’s work to support the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgendered and intersex people in South Africa. Sadly, these young women were not among the many South Africans I…
Resource type: News
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The Strengthening of Atlantic’s Social Justice Mission: What It Means for Our Funding
Source: Gara LaMarche
I’ve just returned from Denver, Colorado, where the annual conference of the Council on Foundations ended Tuesday. A significant theme of the conference this year, which Atlantic helped to organise, was what foundations can do to advance social justice. I was honoured to moderate a…
Resource type: News
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The new philanthropists: Silicon Valley teens
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Original Source by Meredith May, Chronicle Staff Writer A group of Kenyan orphans is tasting milk for the first time. On a train platform in India, teachers are giving lessons to children whose families force them to beg from passengers. And in Thailand, health workers…
Resource type: News
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The Role of Foundations in Immigrant Rights
The rights of immigrants must be protected and foundations can use their unique strengths to play a leading role such as funding public education and civic engagement, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies' President and CEO, in this speech at the European Foundation Centre Meeting…
Resource type: Speech
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Older & Bolder: Irish Seniors Organise for Action
Source: Gara LaMarche
On a visit to Ireland last week, I got a glimpse of a compelling example of the power that an organized community can have – “The Older & Bolder Campaign,” a collaborative initiative among five organizations working to improve the quality of life for older…
Resource type: News
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Audacious Philanthropy
Source: Harvard Business Review
"Audacious philanthropy" can save lives. One example is The Atlantic Philanthropies' push for a helmet law in Viet Nam.
Resource type: News
