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When we finally close our doors, The Atlantic Philanthropies will become the largest foundation ever to deliberately conclude grantmaking within the lifetime of its donor. We’re conscious of making every investment count – in Chuck Feeney’s words: to make the “highest and best use” of…

Rendering of a portion of the future Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, showing the campus lawn, the first academic building (left) and the co-location buidling. Rendering: Luke Yoo/Morphosis By Emily Sanders Hopkins He is Cornell University's biggest donor. Chuck Feeney '56. Image: Fennell Photography…

MSNBC video: Focusing on the school-to-prison pipelineBy Emily WilsonPhoto Credit: iofoto / Shutterstock.comIn the last 20 years, there has been a shocking rise in the number of schools that embrace zero tolerance policies that regularly leave students suspended, expelled or arrested for the kinds of infractions…

By Marc Freedman, Next Avenue Contributor(This article is adapted from The Upside of Aging, edited by Paul H. Irving.)Healthier and more energetic than their predecessors, many of those moving beyond the middle years today want continued purpose in life. They want engagement, stimulation and challenges. Many want to help. They…

Dr Myra Virgil is using lessons learned from a prestigious American grantmaking fellowship to create an organisation that will provide an enduring source of funds for local charities — many of whom are currently locked into a life or death struggle for survival due to…

This New York Times article features two Atlantic ageing programme grantees — Civic Ventures and the Rose Community Foundation. Both organisations engage older people in encore careers and volunteer positions that combine personal meaning and social impact to solve society’s greatest problems. The Rose Community Foundation received a re-grant…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   CONTACT:Cheryl LoeCommunications Project ManagerThe Foundation Center(888) 356-0354, ext. 701communications@foundationcenter.orgNew York, NY — February 15, 2011. Sara K. Gould, former president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women, has joined the Foundation Center in the role of The Atlantic Philanthropies Senior Fellow. During this…

A symposium of philanthropic leadersTo mark the 100th anniversary of the Carnegie Corporation, we asked several philanthropic leaders about the most audacious grants of the past century—and what grants made today will be talked about 100 years hence.—THE EDITORS* * *Ted Turner’s shock announcement in 1997 that he…

By Abu Taher.  Rezina Begum, 65, moved to New York just a year ago to live with her daughter’s family, only to find her lifelong perception of America as a living poem of happiness, pleasure and prosperity turned upside down.“What a life it is,” Begum…

New America Media/Northwest Vietnamese News, News Feature, Julie Pham,Part 2 of 2. Read part 1 here.At the Vietnamese Senior Association (VSA) in Seattle, Marie Thu Le, 75, confessed that “When my time comes, I don’t want to be dependent on machines. I don’t want to be…