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Can Philanthropy Work Effectively With Government?
Source: European Foundation Centre
By Richard Boyle Head of Research, Publishing and Corporate Relations, Institute of Public Administration There is a growing interest in how government and philanthropic organisations can work together to achieve social goals. Working together is not a straightforward task. Governments and philanthropies have different perspectives…
Resource type: News
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Civil Rights Suspended
Source: Advocates for Children of New York
Under the U.S Constitution, as well as federal and New York state laws, students and their parents have the right to due process prior to suspension or expulsion from school. Yet a significant number of New York City charter schools have adopted discipline policies that…
Resource type: Research Report
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$10-Million Obama Proposal Hopes to Export Success of Harlem Program
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Harlem Children's Zone is an Atlantic grantee. By Suzanne Perry. Harlem Children's Zone is one of the most lauded — and emulated — charities in the country. Nonprofit groups and government agencies regularly send emissaries to Harlem to study the organization's acclaimed poverty-fighting strategy, which…
Resource type: News
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Editorial: Lessons for Failing Schools
Source: The New York Times
Original Source KIPP and Harlem Children's Zone are Atlantic grantees. The $100 billion education stimulus package gives Education Secretary Arne Duncan unprecedented leverage to energize the languishing school reform effort. Mr. Duncan has said from the start that he wants the states to transform about…
Resource type: News
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Community Schools: Bringing Together Community Partners to Increase Opportunities for Youth
Source: The Education Innovator (DOE)
Volume VII, No. 6 of the U.S. Department of Education's Education Innovator newsletter features three Atlantic grantees from our Children & Youth Programme: Communities in Schools, Coalition for Community Schools, and Harlem Children's Zone. To read the issue, download the PDF below.
Resource type: News
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Charity Lauded by Obama Lays Off 10% of Its Staff
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Original Source Harlem Children’s Zone, the New York charity that President-elect Barack Obama has held up as a model for fighting poverty, laid off 10 percent of its staff this month because of the deepening economic crisis. “We thought this was a fiscally prudent move…
Resource type: News
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Income levy grossly unfair to low earners warns charity
Source: Irish Times
by CARL O'BRIEN PEOPLE ON low incomes will be hit hardest by the introduction of an 1 per cent income levy in the Budget, a number of lobby groups for the disadvantaged warned yesterday. The Society of St Vincent de Paul said the levy was…
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NYC's Action on School Discipline Moves Closer to Just Education
Source: Philanthropy New York
By Kavitha Mediratta, Chief Strategy Advisor, Equity Initiatives & Human Capital Development, The Atlantic Philanthropies In recent years, thousands of New York City school children have been disciplined through exclusion from school, disengaging them from learning and increasing the likelihood they will get caught up…
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Parenting Support for Every Parent
Source: UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway
A parenting programme can have a significant impact on the risk and protective factors that shape family life, and create population-wide benefit, according to this evaluation of the Triple P Positive Parenting Programme in the Midland counties of Longford and Westmeath. The parenting programme was…
Resource type: Research Report
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Capturing the Learning - Harvesting the Knowledge
Source: Centre for Effective Services
The Centre for Effective Services (CES) is delighted to have Minster for Children and Young People, Dr James Reilly launch its latest publication Prevention and Early Intervention in Children and Young People’s Services – Ten Years of Learning Report today, Monday, 20 October, in St…
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