Results List
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'Census for young people' poses challenging questions
Source: Bermuda Sun
By Sirkka Huish.Bermuda’s young people are to be quizzed to find out what has made them who they are today.Thousands of 18 to 35-year-olds are going to be put on the spot about issues such as sex before marriage, teenage pregnancy and religious beliefs. The…
Resource type: News
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YUC report says zero tolerance a failure
Source: Philadelphia Public School Notebook
The School District’s zero-tolerance discipline policy does not make school safer, creates a prison-like culture, costs money - and it keeps students “one minor mistake away from having their life turned upside down,” according to a new report. Philadelphia schools, it said, rely on punitive measures…
Resource type: News
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High Impact Strategies for Education Philanthropy
Aaron Dorfman, executive director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) talks about his organisation's new report on high impact strategies for education philanthropy. The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) is an Atlantic grantee. Read the Report View Original Source
Resource type: Video
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Confronting Systemic Inequity in Education: High Impact Strategies for Philanthropy
Source: National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
This report looks at how philanthropy can be more effective at helping to reform and improve our nation’s school systems. Every year, foundations provide billions in grants for education. Yet, our education system is in crisis: American schoolchildren – especially those from vulnerable communities - remain trapped in…
Resource type: Research Report
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Concrete support for young people needed, says entrepreneur
Source: The Irish Times
by LORNA SIGGINSIRELAND COULD become home to the next Google, Facebook or Nokia if it stopped paying “lip service” to a younger generation by offering concrete support, the founder of a national social media agency has said.SpunOut.ie director Ruairí McKiernan said his company planned to…
Resource type: News
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Highlights from the Elev8 Learning Institute, April 21- 23, 2010
The Institute is a learning opportunity for Elev8 stakeholders, designed to draw from and build on the deep experiences and expertise of all participants to strengthen Elev8 services, advocacy and community organizing efforts. The video showcases highlights from the conference that took place from April…
Resource type: Video
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Ireland’s Top Teens – The Trailer
''Ireland's Top Teens'' comes to TV screen near you. The show will profile ten youth groups who have taken part in the permanent tsb Foróige Youth Citizenship Programme and are now in the running to be crowned ‘Ireland’s Top Teens’. These groups have been selected…
Resource type: Video
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Coming to a TV Screen Near You
Source: Foróige
A very exciting development for the Citizenship Programme and the thousands of young people who participate in the programme every year, is that, for the first time ever, the extraordinary work that young people undertake in the community as part of the permanent tsb Foróige Youth…
Resource type: News
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Shared education in NI proposed to save costs
Source: BBC
An economic consultancy has said shared education could help Northern Ireland schools survive the harsh funding cuts which are expected. Oxford Economics said excess capacity in schools is partly due to having different schools for both Protestants and Catholics in the same communities. It argues…
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Fall 2010 Letter From the President
This letter from Atlantic’s former President and CEO, Gara LaMarche, is the first in an annual series that will chronicle the work of The Atlantic Philanthropies as it spends down its assets and closes its doors by 2020.
Resource type: Annual Report