Results List
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Risk with Vision: Placing Informed 'Big Bets'
Source: Resourcing Philanthropy
By Gillian Mitchell, Gabrielle Ritchie and Melanie Judge Philanthropy and risk are not natural bedfellows. For most of us philanthropy invokes an impression of measured resolution, gravity and thoughtfulness. Philanthropy makes considered interventions into areas of society that are not delivering on rights or opportunity…
Resource type: News
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From Social Movement to Social Change: Philanthropy and School Discipline Reform
Source: Inside Philanthropy
By David Callahan What role does philanthropy play in social movements? It’s an interesting question, and there’s a long history of funder involvement in different movements—from civil rights in the 1960s to LGBT rights in the past decade. Just last week, I wrote about the role of…
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Archives of Atlantic Philanthropies Given to Cornell Library
Source: Cornell Chronicle
By Melanie Lefkowitz The archives of The Atlantic Philanthropies, among the world’s largest and most influential foundations, will be housed permanently at Cornell. The archives, which will serve as an important resource for philanthropists and historians, document roughly $8 billion in Atlantic grants over three…
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Race and Overreaction: On the Streets and in Schools
Source: The Atlantic
Photo: The Good Doctor/FlickrBy Mica Pollock and Tanya CokeIn each police-related death recently dominating the headlines, authorities overreacted to black men’s behaviors as if they were life-threatening.On Staten Island, an unarmed Eric Garner was wrestled to the ground by five police officers and strangled to death…
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Atlantic’s Culminating Grants: Cultivating Change
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
In his latest instalment in a series chronicling Atlantic’s limited life, Tony Proscio at the Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society conjures the image of a harvest to describe our work in Atlantic’s final years. The metaphor is apt. We want to…
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Eight Cities to Receive Funding to Reduce the Number of Uninsured Children
Source: National League of Cities
Washington, D.C. - To help implement local outreach efforts to enroll children and families in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the National League of Cities (NLC) today awarded grants and technical assistance to eight cities.The Cities Expanding Health Access for Children and Families…
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2 Ways to Help More People Have Encore Careers
Source: Forbes
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…
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To Keep Kids Out of Trouble—And Prison—Teach Them to Understand Their Emotions
Source: YES! Magazine
A restorative circle at MetWest High School in Oakland, Calif. Image by Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth and Oakland Unified School District.After teaching students to understand and talk through their conflicts, schools in Denver and Los Angeles have seen major reductions in disciplinary action.By Katherine…
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‘Glass ceiling still exists’ for women in the workplace
Source: The Royal Gazette
The “glass ceiling” still exists for women in the workplace — despite statistics that indicate females’ pay rose faster than males’ during the past decade.That is the view of Elaine Williams, of the Women’s Resource Centre, who was responding to last week’s Government brief on…
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Universities jointly honour ‘Chuck’ Feeney, the founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies
Source: University College Dublin
The universities of Ireland, North and South, have conferred an honorary Doctorate of Laws (LLD) on Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies. The degree was conferred to give public honour and thanks to Chuck Feeney for his incredible support of the Irish…
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