Results List
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ReServe Explores Sharing its Model with Other Nonprofits
Source: ReServe
Original Source Retirees looking for meaning and ways to use their skills and experience and nonprofits looking for seasoned talent have been slow to connect. But their parallel paths are now bending into arcs that create can-do circles, and ReServe, with a grant from the…
Resource type: News
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Philanthropy 2.0
Source: Worth Magazine
Original Source A year ago, Jean and Steve Case's teenage daughter asked a question that inspired her parents to reassess their entire approach to philanthropy. Steve, one of the cofounders of AOL, had taken her- one of his five children-to mingle with Bill Clinton and…
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Talent in Philanthropy
Newspaper reporters, baseball pitching scouts, art dealers and movie studio casting agents all provide models for philanthropy to follow in finding and cultivating talented programme officers, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech to the Foundation Impact Research Group, Terry…
Resource type: Speech
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Charity no longer a cottage industry
Source: Financial Times
The first thing greeting visitors to kiva.org's home page is a photograph and description of a featured business. It could be a Ugandan cobbler, a Peruvian farmer or a shopkeeper in Tajikistan. Users can make small loans to these entrepreneurs and, during the course of…
Resource type: News
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GW Health Workforce Institute Announces 2019 Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity
Source: The George Washington University
The George Washington University (GW) Health Workforce Institute, based at Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH), announces the 2019 fellows of the year-long Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity program. The program honors health sector professionals with a commitment to health equity and…
Resource type: News
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Transformative Leaders for Health Equity in Southeast Asia
Source: China Medical Board
[caption id="attachment_76935" align="aligncenter" width="581"] Fellows join Lincoln Chen in launching the initiative. Source: China Medical Board[/caption] At the Prince Mahidol Award Conference in Bangkok on January 29, CMB announced an unprecedented partnership with the Atlantic Philanthropies to launch an ambitious program to nurture an entire…
Resource type: News
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Buildings, Bridges and Big Bets
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
Chuck Feeney, with Cornell University President Frank Rhodes and Ed Walsh, Limerick president, at Plassey House in 1988. From Elizabeth, N.J., where our founder, Chuck Feeney was born and raised, you can follow the Elizabeth River into New York Bay, all the way across the…
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Atlantic Awards Community Catalyst $14.8 Million to Strengthen the Voice of Consumers in Health System Transformation
Source: Community Catalyst
Legacy grant will support new Center for Consumer and Community Engagement Community Catalyst has been awarded a five-year $14.8 million legacy grant by The Atlantic Philanthropies to develop and promote a consumer agenda around “health system transformation,” fundamental changes in the health system that are…
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Government Launches Irish National Dementia Strategy
Source: Department of Health Ireland
Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Tánaiste Joan Burton and Minister for Primary and Social Care Kathleen Lynch today (Wednesday 17th December 2014) launched the Irish National Dementia Strategy. This honours the commitment in the Programme for Government to develop a national Alzheimer’s and other dementias strategy to…
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Purpose Prize Winner Fights for Caregivers
Source: Next Avenue
Crusader Barbara Young helped nannies get better pay and benefits. Her new goal: better working conditions for aides to the elderly.When is the last time you worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for total pay of $225? My guess is probably never.But…
Resource type: News