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Atlantic Philanthropies Program Officer Stacey Easterling recently spoke about the responsibility, joys and burdens of true leadership at the 2010 Aging in America Conference in Chicago (March, 2010). Atlantic Philanthropies is a major sponsor of the Direct Care Alliance. Excerpts from her remarks follow: Leadership…

Atlantic Philanthropies Program Officer Stacey Easterling recently spoke about the responsibility, joys and burdens of true leadership at the 2010 Aging in America Conference in Chicago as she addressed the graduating class from the New Ventures in Leadership (NVL) program. Atlantic Philanthropies is a major…

Stacey Easterling is a Programme Executive for Ageing at The Atlantic Philanthropies. In 2007, The Atlantic Philanthropies began funding a national pilot in which success depended on engaging, and helping shift society’s perceptions of, people over age 60. This pilot needed to take hold in a range…

Original Source By: ANDY HUMM SAGE, Services and Advocacy for Gay Elders, just scored two big grants. The Calamus Foundation has given the New York-based group a $1 million matching grant over four years for implementing the group's new strategic plan, "one of the largest…

The Atlantic Philanthropies’ approach to funding in ageing, including its emphasis on advocacy, is outlined in this speech by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Annual Meeting of Grantmakers in Aging in San Diego, California in November 2007. When I was asked a…

Original Source The 2009 ASA-NCOA Aging in America Conference devoted a full day on March 16th to a National Forum on Civic Engagement, which presented best practices in civic engagement inspired by the 2006-2007 winter issue of ASA’s journalGenerations, Civic Engagement in Later Life. A…

Original Source By Robyn Skinner The community's health can be gauged by how black men and boys are doing and philanthropic organisations need to understand why there are still barriers to helping them. That's why last week a group of leaders in their fields met…

Calamus Gives One of the Largest Grants in Its History to SAGE. CORRECTION: Please note the release distributed on Tuesday, December 9th was in error. The Atlantic Philanthropies grant to SAGE was not the Foundation's first gift to an LGBT organization. Please use the corrected…

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…