Results List
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Repairing Our Broken Justice System
Source: The Nation
By Gara LaMarche. This article appeared in the October 5, 2009 edition of The Nation. Since the levees burst in New Orleans and the interstate bridge collapsed in Minnesota, much has been written and said about the need to repair the nation's infrastructure, too much…
Resource type: News
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Newsmakers: Richard Barth, Chief Executive Officer, KIPP Foundation
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source KIPP and Teach for America are Atlantic grantees. Richard Barth, Chief Executive Officer, KIPP Foundation The Obama administration has thrown down the gauntlet to educators and legislators to fix "an education system that used to be...the best in the world, and no longer…
Resource type: News
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U.S. Nonprofits Stressed but Surviving, Survey Finds
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Eighty percent of U.S. nonprofit organizations are experiencing fiscal stress, with close to 40 percent reporting that the stress was "severe" or "very severe," a new survey released by Johns Hopkins University finds. Based on a survey of 363 organizations as part of the Johns Hopkins Nonprofit…
Resource type: News
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AoA Expands Volunteer Opportunities for Older Americans
Source: The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Administration on Aging (Release)
The National Council on Aging is an Atlantic grantee. WASHINGTON, June 5 -- The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Administration on Aging issued the following news release: Acting Assistant Secretary for Aging Edwin L. Walker today announced that 19 awards have been made…
Resource type: News
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Homewood 'Children's Zone' Vision Advocated
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania)
Harlem Children's Zone is an Atlantic grantee. by Joe Smydo John Wallace, a professor who's spent more than two years planning the Homewood Children's Village, said his proposal to provide comprehensive social services to neighborhood children could be operational within 18 months. "I think we…
Resource type: News
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Housing slump changing options for older Americans
Source: NY Newsday
Aging in place has become the only possibility for many as the weakened economy erodes real estate values and retirement savings by MARK MILLER For a growing number of older Americans, the housing slump has changed the concept of "aging in place" from a lifestyle…
Resource type: News
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Obama Pledge Stirs Hope in Early Education
Source: The New York Times
by SAM DILLON CHICAGO — It was the morning after the presidential election, and Matthew Melmed, executive director of Zero to Three, a national organization devoted to early childhood education, could barely contain his exultation. Mr. Melmed fired off an e-mail message to his board…
Resource type: News
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Strengthening Democracy, Increasing Opportunities
Source: National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
In the face of the nation's worst financial crisis since 1932, foundations are bracing to cope with assets that plunged as a result of Wall Street’s decline. New numbers from New Mexico suggest that foundations should turn to the underutilised strategy of supporting advocacy, organising…
Resource type: News
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Answers About the City's After-School Programs
Source: The New York Times - City Room blog
By The New York Times Following is the first set of answers from Lucy N. Friedman, the president of a nonprofit organization that provides children with after-school programs. We are no longer accepting questions on this feature. Read Ms. Friedman’s biography. Read the second set…
Resource type: News
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Taking Account of Race as a Philanthropic Imperative
Foundations must take account of race in all of their work in order to get beyond racism, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies President and CEO, in this speech at the Waldemar Nielsen Issue Forums in Philanthropy, Georgetown Public Policy Institute in Washington. You might…
Resource type: Speech