Results List
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De Blasio Administration Announces New School Climate Initiatives to Make NYC Schools Safer, Fairer and More Transparent
Source: The City of New York
Proposed updates to the discipline code include an end to suspensions for students in grades K-2 For the first time, NYPD releases expanded school safety data on school-based arrests, summonses and handcuffing New scanning policy establishes official process based on data with NYPD oversight for…
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Organizations Provide $8.7 Million to Launch a National Center to Improve Care for Complex Patients
Source: Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers
CAMDEN, N.J.—The Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers announced plans to establish a national center to improve care for high-need patients who experience poor outcomes despite extreme patterns of hospitalizations or emergency care. Inefficient and ineffective care of these patients has been identified as a driver…
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Bold Advocacy: How Atlantic Philanthropies Funded a Movement
Source: GrantCraft
By Naomi Rothwell The dramatic story of the recent American health care reform movement – and how foundations had a hand in changing history – has not been widely told. Starting in 2008, Atlantic Philanthropies and others helped fund an extraordinary campaign to push for…
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Empower people to help themselves
Source: Philanthropy SA
By Jay Naidoo. I WOULD like to recommend that we think of philanthropy not simply as a means of "giving back", but as a means of 'giving forward'. Taken this way, philanthropy can be seen as a means to promote the stability of African society…
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Obama Urges Fix to ‘Broken’ Immigration System
Source: The New York Times
By Peter Baker. WASHINGTON — President Obama pressed Congress on Thursday to adopt a sweeping plan to fix a “fundamentally broken” immigration system, taking on a volatile issue that has inflamed passions in a weak economy heading into the fall midterm campaign. In his first…
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WOW Works with Obama Administration to Advocate for Women and Families
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Following the U.S. Presidential Election, Atlantic grantee Wider Opportunities for Women has worked with the Obama Transition Team to advocate on a number of issues related to work, women and family. In late 2008, as a result of a letter to the President-Elect regarding priorities for his first 100…
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Economy forcing many seniors to cut on health care
Source: Chicago Tribune
by Judith Graham They are splitting pills or deciding not to refill prescriptions. They're missing doctors' appointments, skipping needed dental work, canceling home-care services. As the economy founders, Chicago's seniors are cutting back wherever they can, and health care is high on the list of…
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In Act 2 of Life, Doing Work That Matters
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By Jane E. Brody Dr. Peter I. Pressman decided to retire in 2003 after 40 years as a New York breast cancer surgeon much admired by his patients for the time and skill he devoted to them and their families. He was 68,…
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Immigration Quandary: A Mother Torn From Her Baby
Source: New York Times
Federal immigration agents were searching a house in Ohio last month when they found a young Honduran woman nursing her baby. The woman, Saída Umanzor, is an illegal immigrant and was taken to jail to await deportation. Her 9-month-old daughter, Brittney Bejarano, who was born…
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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.
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