Results List
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PICO National Network
$4,300,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Cashing-In On Grades: Good Or Bad For Students?
Source: NPR
This NPR story features the Higher Achievement Program, an Atlantic grantee. Listen at NPR's website [17 min 49 sec] Tell Me More, June 2, 2009 · The Capital Gains program introduced cash incentives to many Washington, D.C., students as a way to boost their grades.…
Resource type: News
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Editorial: A Vital Boost for Education
Source: The New York Times
Original Source The stimulus measure being debated in Congress contains a vital $140 billion education package that would more than double the Education Department’s discretionary budget and give the federal government unprecedented leverage over a school-reform effort that has been controlled primarily by the states.…
Resource type: News
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Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program Now Accepting Applications
Source: Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program
Dear Colleague, I am pleased to announce the 2nd year of the Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program, a unique professional fellowship opportunity. Supported by The Atlantic Philanthropies and directed by Harold Alan Pincus, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University (in collaboration with the…
Resource type: News
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Senate Passes Health Insurance Bill for Children
Source: Washington Post
Immigrant Clause Opens Rift By Ceci Connolly The Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation yesterday to provide health insurance to 11 million low-income children, a bill that would for the first time spend federal money to cover children and pregnant women who are legal immigrants. The State…
Resource type: News
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Congress advances new law expanding children's health insurance program
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Some 4 million more children would bring the total to more than 11 million covered In a move toward health coverage for all Americans, the Senate voted Thursday to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to include some 4.1 million uninsured children. The…
Resource type: News
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Boston College Receives $3.5 Million From Atlantic Philanthropies
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source Boston College has announced a $3.5 million grant from Atlantic Philanthropies to expand the consumer-directed healthcare program at the college's Center for the Study of Home and Community Life (CSHCL). The Cash and Counseling program at CSHCL matches counselors with individuals who want to design…
Resource type: News
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National League of Cities Institute
$3,500,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Fundraising halfway mark met
Source: Powell Tribune
Original Source Written by CJ Baker More than 60 years after its closure, the Heart Mountain Relocation Center is becoming harder to forget. Just below the grounds that once held nearly 11,000 Japanese-Americans sits the construction site of a new Interpretative Learning Center. The new…
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Grant to help center expand program to the national level
Source: Boston College Heights
Original Source By: Ashley Schneider The Atlantic Philanthropies awarded a $3.5 million grant to Kevin Mahoney, a professor in the graduate school of social work and director of the Center for the Study of Home and Community Life (CSHCL), to help the center's Cash & Counseling Program…
Resource type: News