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Gara LaMarche, Atlantic's President and CEO addressed the 2010 graduating class at the Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools in Haley Farm, Knoxville, Tennessee. I want to start out by saying that I have no recollection of the commencement address when I graduated from St. Bernard’s…

By Evelyn Ring.  ONE in five hospital patients at the end of their lives could have died at home if there had been enough supports, according to a unique national audit published yesterday. It found that hospital admissions through emergency departments negatively impact on patients…

A brand new service for people living with dementia, believed to be the first of its kind in Europe, has been launched in Belfast. The Brain Bus, which has been developed by Atlantic grantee Fold Housing Association, is a revolutionary mobile therapy unit for people…

Thirty-eight US billionaires have pledged at least 50% of their wealth to charity through a campaign started by investor Warren Buffet and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. They include Mayor Michael Bloomberg, CNN founder Ted Turner and entertainment executive Barry Diller. "The Giving Pledge" lists all…

By Sophia Tareen.CHICAGO (AP) — Protesters nationwide vented their anger over a new Arizona law to crack down on illegal immigrants by calling on President Barack Obama to immediately take up their cause for federal immigration reform.From Los Angeles to Washington D.C., activists, families, students…

A fight is brewing over Arizona’s new law that turns all of the state’s Latinos, even legal immigrants and citizens, into criminal suspects. And this is not a local fight. The poison is spreading; there is talk in Texas of passing a version of the…

Although the benefits from the newly signed health care bill won't be available until 2014, implementation efforts are already underway. To better understand how the new law will be implemented and what it means for children, GCYF partnered with First Focus to host a webinar to…

Australia’s Prime Minister praises biomedical research at the University of Queensland as an example of what can be achieved when government, universities and philanthropy work together in partnership.It is good to be back home; it's good to be back in Brisbane; good to be back…

On Sunday March 21st, a number of Atlantic staff joined grantees and two hundred thousand diverse activists from across the country in a march in Washington D.C. to demand that immigration reform be on President Obama’s agenda this year.  Like the advocates we support, we…

We wake up this morning surrounded by a new political world.The House vote approving health care reform was without doubt the most significant congressional vote in the last four decades. That's because it completely transformed the American political landscape. It certainly changed America's health care…