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$125 Million Is Pledged to Big Medical Center
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By STEPHANIE STROM Despite a worldwide economic decline, the nine-figure gift is not dead. Charles F. Feeney, the iconoclastic philanthropist known as “the billionaire who wasn’t,” is giving $125 million to the University of California San Francisco Medical Center to support development of a complex…
Resource type: News
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Foundations help nonprofits hurt in Madoff affair
Source: Associated Press
By RACHEL BECK NEW YORK (AP) - Nonprofits that are struggling because their donors lost money with Bernard Madoff are getting a bailout -- but not from the government. Richer foundations are stepping in to help. Human Rights Watch, The Center for Constitutional Rights and others are…
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Growling and Kicking for Social Change
It is time for Americans to bring together two powerful forces that are often disconnected - the desire to serve and the necessity to take social action to change systems that often give rise to the need for these services, said Gara LaMarche, President and…
Resource type: Speech
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R30m boost for training community service nurses
Source: The Sowetan
Original Source by Sne Masuku Durban University of Technology has received a R30million grant that will pay for an undergraduate programme to train nurses. Atlantic Philanthropies, an international foundation active in South Africa, will spread the payment over five years, but the university has already received…
Resource type: News
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R30m boost for training community service nurses
Source: Sowetan (South Africa)
by Sne Masuku Durban University of Technology has received a R30million grant that will pay for an undergraduate programme to train nurses. Atlantic Philanthropies, an international foundation active in South Africa, will spread the payment over five years, but the university has already received the…
Resource type: News
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The State of our Union in Crisis: Widening the Lens of Children and Families
Keynote speech by Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, given at the Annual Conference of Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. This is an extraordinary moment to gather and reflect, as we have planned to do…
Resource type: Speech
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Cash boost for community schemes
Source: BBC News
Original Source Over the next three years the money will be invested in accredited community based projects (CBRJ). Criminal Justice Minister Paul Goggins announced the new funding package, which is a joint venture between the NIO and the Atlantic Philanthrophies. "CBRJ schemes have shown that…
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Crisis of age requires cure
Source: FT Times
By Lauren Foster When Mark Lachs, an internist who specialises in the care of the elderly, looks into the not-so-distant future, he sees millions of retirees and not enough doctors. The baby boomers are moving through the belly of the beast and are coming out…
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12 People Who Are Changing Your Retirement
Source: Wall Street Journal
Joseph Coughlin describes his work as "trying to get people to 'age cool.' " More specifically, as director of AgeLab, a research program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is pushing advances in transportation, health care and housing off drawing boards and into older…
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How Long Should Gifts Just Grow?
Source: New York Times
As nonprofit institutions have seen donations and investments grow spectacularly in recent years, the urge to keep the money rolling in is being supplemented by a new pressure: make it flow out faster. Politicians, consultants, watchdog groups and even some philanthropists say that foundations, universities,…
Resource type: News