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[caption id="attachment_58419" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Yarol Yamel, 3, is examined by Dr. Janisleydis Rosado for bronchial asthma at walk-in clinic Number 15, La Santa Fe, Isle of Youth.[/caption] Cuba Although Cuba’s health care system is considered to be one of the best in the world, in…

This case study was commissioned by the Civic Participation Action Fund, an Atlantic grantee.   Cook County, Illinois, was one of the first jurisdictions to focus on electing a progressive prosecutor—a criminal justice reform strategy now being used across the United States. Kim Foxx was…

This case study was commissioned by the Civic Participation Action Fund, an Atlantic grantee. The 2016 election of Kim Ogg as district attorney (DA) in Harris County, Texas, was part of a Democratic electoral wave that extended from the presidential candidate to down ballot races…

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This Foundation Review article, authored by by Barbara Klugman and Waasila Jassat, examines five Atlantic-supported advocacy efforts designed to improve access to quality health care for all South Africans and reduce health inequities across the country. [caption id="attachment_76646" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Atlantic supported five organizations that, individually and sometimes collaboratively, advocated…

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…

Original Source By MIKE FEINBERG At the end of his stirring acceptance speech in Chicago on November 4, President-elect Barack Obama said that this is the time "to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids" and "to reclaim…

Moderates would respond to a Democrat willing to slip the ideological stranglehold of a liberal interest group. Original Source by Jonathan Alter One of the best things about the democratic primaries was that horse-race-obsessed reporters rarely asked the candidates about education. Why was that good?…

and How Do You Develop an Organizational Culture that Encourages It? The Evaluation Exchange Volume XI, No. 2, Summer 2005 Issue Topic: Evaluation Methodology Ask the Expert John A. Healy, Director of Strategic Learning and Evaluation at The Atlantic Philanthropies, shares ways to position learning…

It’s a Thursday morning in mid- December and Betsye Steele, principal of Ralph J. Bunche High School, is holding her weekly new-student orientation session. She sits at the small table in her office talking with Antwon, the school’s newest student, and his grandfather. As they…