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Original Source The Foundation Center and the Council on Foundations are Atlantic grantees. by Ret Boney The injuries foundations sustained during the market downturns were severe, and it likely will be years before foundation giving is back on track, but funders have risen to the…

For many around the world, Ireland in the last ten years or so has represented two things: first, a strong voice for human rights and justice, from Presidents like Mary Robinson to prominent private citizens like Bono. And second, a powerful economic success story: the…

Original Source by Gara LaMarche Americans are all too familiar with the ups and downs of the tech, housing, and stock-market bubbles. Now we are learning that there has been a "nonprofit bubble," too. The nonprofit world grew rapidly as a result of generous giving…

Original Source By: Stephen Pelletier The economic meltdown has had a huge impact on philanthropic organizations: The Council on Foundations, an association of more than 2,100 grantmaking foundations and corporations, estimates that foundation endowment assets have shed some $200 billion in value so far. What…

Original Source By Sean Stannard-Stockton Between the dismal economy, crashing financial markets and the Madoff scandal it would be natural to assume that philanthropy was out for the count. But while these difficulties might take the wind out of the sector's sails for a while,…

By David Herszenhorn.  WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday adopted legislation to revamp the nation’s financial regulatory system, voting mostly along party lines as partisan acrimony impeded cooperation even on the shared goals of averting future economic crises. The vote in the House was 237…

The intensifying economic crisis slams the world of nonprofit organizations. Original Source By Eyal Press In the days between Christmas and New Year's Eve, Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, sat at his desk in Lower Manhattan and reached out to people…

Now that we know that Barack Obama will take the office of President of the United States on January 20, the scenario planning that virtually all non-profits and philanthropies have been doing can kick into high gear. My e-mail inbox, and no doubt yours, is…

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Photo: Alicia Rawlings, PhD student and research assistant, fits a geodesic sensor net on the head of a patient. The electrodes in the sensor nets are used to pick up brainwaves just below the scalp.[/caption] “Before Atlantic came with this investment…

By Donal O'Donovan Inward migration of workers remains crucial for Ireland's economy regardless of the current downturn, according to new research.The research by economist Jim Power for the Integration Centre, a charity supported by Atlantic Philanthropies and the One Foundation, is the first major report into…