Results List
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Social Justice: A Guiding Vision for Atlantic’s Final Chapter
Source: Gara LaMarche
All healthy institutions must from time to time take a look at what they are doing to see what’s working and what isn’t, to re-examine assumptions in light of changes in the environment – political, social, economic and philanthropic – and make any necessary adjustments.…
Resource type: News
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Giving Circles Change Donors' Giving in Positive and Significant Ways
Source: Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers
The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers, and the Aspen Institute are Atlantic grantees. OMAHADonors say they give more, give more strategically, and are more knowledgeable about nonprofit organizations and problems in their communities when they participate in…
Resource type: News
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Invest in families to keep kids in school
Source: The Carrboro Citizen
Original Source By Chris Fitzsimon Speaker Joe Hackney presided at a news conference with fellow House Democrats Tuesday to announce that the lawmakers were renewing their commitment made two years ago to improve the state’s high school graduation rate, though Hackney acknowledged that it’s not…
Resource type: News
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Age Friendly County Alliance Limited
$744,023
Resource type: Grantee
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The six best U.S. cities for addiction treatment and prevention
Source: New York Daily News
Communities in Schools is an Atlantic grantee. by Dave Moore & Bill Manville BILL: In my Greenwich Village drinking days, everybody knew "Marvin." If you wanted a couple of tires for your car, maybe a new TV set, you called him and "put in your…
Resource type: News
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Summit to explore school dropout triggers
Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal
by JAMES HAUG Why children quit school is a complex issue rooted in poverty and parental apathy, said experts who will speak at a dropout prevention conference today. According to Editorial Projects in Education, Nevada's graduation rate of 45 percent is the lowest in the…
Resource type: News
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Empty Nest Cure: Texas Mother Finds Meaning as a Mentor
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Original Source By SUE SHELLENBARGER After children leave home, many parents with empty nests must search hard for new pursuits to give their lives meaning. After Pat Rosenberg's two daughters left for college, Ms. Rosenberg, 61, a longtime volunteer in the Houston public schools, found…
Resource type: News
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Ageing Well Network
$7,463,433
Resource type: Grantee
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Anne Connolly Consulting Ltd
$352,514
Resource type: Grantee
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Programme Seeks to Aid Disadvantaged Children in Republic of Ireland
A project to help disadvantaged children in three communities in Ireland will gather evidence about what works and what does not and apply that knowledge to future programmes, said John R. Healy, former Chief Executive, The Atlantic Philanthropies, in this speech in Dublin announcing the…
Resource type: Speech
