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Older job seekers struggle to overcome age barrier
Source: Associated Press Online
The Urban Institute and AARP are Atlantic grantees. by CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER Like many unemployed older workers, 64-year old Allan Kellum fears his age has made it harder to find a new job. At a recent job fair, Kellum expressed interest in a supervisory role…
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Starting Over, With a Second Career Goal of Changing Society
By Steve Lohr Harvard kicked off a small but ambitious experiment this week that it hopes will become a new “third stage” of university education. For the student-fellows in the program, most in their 50s and early 60s, the goal is a second-act career in…
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Taking Account of Race as a Philanthropic Imperative
Foundations must take account of race in all of their work in order to get beyond racism, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies President and CEO, in this speech at the Waldemar Nielsen Issue Forums in Philanthropy, Georgetown Public Policy Institute in Washington. You might…
Resource type: Speech
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Teenage Birth Rate Rises for First Time Since '91
Source: New York Times
The birth rate among teenagers 15 to 19 in the United States rose 3 percent in 2006, according to a report issued Wednesday, the first such increase since 1991. The finding surprised scholars and fueled a debate about whether the Bush administration's abstinence-only sexual education…
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Pursuing Profits in Elder Care Puts Us All at Risk
Source: Inequality.org
By Beverley Skeggs [caption id="attachment_82487" align="alignright" width="205"] Professor Skeggs[/caption] Professor Beverley Skeggs directs the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity Program at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science I was upset and angry about my mother’s…
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Hartford Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies, AGS Foundation for Health in Aging Award Over $2 Million for Medical Research
Source: American Geriatric Society (AGS)
Address Urgent Health Care Needs of Growing Elderly Population For Immediate Release For Further Information: Mary Anne Shannon (212) 308-1414 x301 New York, NY - The American Geriatrics Society, The John A. Hartford Foundation, The Atlantic Philanthropies, and the AGS Foundation for Health in Aging…
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A Move to Expand Volunteer Ranks
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By ELIZABETH POPE OLDER Americans who want to help solve the nation’s social problems will soon have even more opportunities to do so. Last month, Congress passed legislation that expands national and community service programs and includes provisions to attract adults over 55…
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As Millions Plan Longer Working Lives, Stanford Summit to Promote a New Social Norm: Encore Careers for the Greater Good
Source: AScribe Newswire
New Brand Draws Attention to the Pause at the End of Midlife Careers and the Good Work That Can Follow Original Source SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Hundreds of people in encore careers, plus leaders in business, education, government, philanthropy, academia and public…
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Six Entrepreneurs Over 60 Win $100,000 Purpose Prizes for Innovation, Extraordinary Contribution in Encore Careers
Source: Civic Ventures
Nine Others Win $10,000 Each, as Experienced Adults Prove to be an Unexpected Source of Social Innovation SAN FRANCISCO - One winner put his mechanical know-how to work and invented a $28 machine to help rural African villagers shell peanuts more efficiently. Another, in Fargo,…
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Atlantic Mourns the Loss of Public Health Pioneer and Pediatrician Fitzhugh Mullan
Source: Newswise
“We mourn the loss of Fitzhugh Mullan. He was a force for social justice and health equity who touched the lives of countless people. Fitz’s inspiring legacy lives on in the people, programs and policies he nurtured to help bring about fairer, healthier societies.” -…
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