Results List
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Charitable Relations
Source: The American Prospect
Philanthropy adapts to the Obama era. Original Source by Lauren Foster Last November, two weeks after Barack Obama was elected president, Gara LaMarche took to the podium at the annual meeting of Southern California Grantmakers. The president and chief executive of The Atlantic Philanthropies was…
Resource type: News
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Richard Boone and the Field Foundation: Beacons of Leadership for Social Justice Philanthropy
Source: Gara LaMarche
On a mellow California afternoon earlier this month, I drove a few hours up the coast from Los Angeles, where I’d been on a panel at the annual meeting of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, to spend some time with one of the most influential…
Resource type: News
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Tough Times Require Change Throughout Philanthropy
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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…
Resource type: News
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Release of Major National Research Showing Experience Corps Produces Big Gains in Student Learning
Source: Experience Corps
Read the full report: http://csd.wustl.edu/Publications/Documents/RP09-01.pdf WASHINGTON, DC -- Two years ago, Washington University researchers launched a major national study to answer this question: Do Experience Corps members have an impact on the reading ability of the children they tutor? Very few nonprofits are fortunate enough…
Resource type: News
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Stimulus dollars dominate Town Hall meeting
Source: Alaska Star
By DARRELL L. BREESE Ready to answer questions about the state budget, the gas pipeline, the requirement of parental consent for abortions and the elimination of daylight savings time, members of the local legislative delegation gathered for a town hall meeting Saturday. While those topics…
Resource type: News
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New Guidelines Target U.S. Foundation Practices
Source: National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
WASHINGTON, March 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Grantmakers are not delivering as much social benefit as they could, according to the new Criteria for Philanthropy at Its Best: Benchmarks to Assess and Enhance Grantmaker Impact by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. The criteria, to be released…
Resource type: News
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Google Chief for Charity Steps Down on Revamp
Source: The New York Times
by MIGUEL HELFT SAN FRANCISCO — Larry Brilliant, the executive director of Google.org, said late Monday that he would step down from managing Google’s philanthropic unit and signaled that Google.org might curtail its financing of nonprofit groups unless they are closely aligned with Google projects. Dr.…
Resource type: News
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The second wave of giving will roll on
Source: Financial Times
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,…
Resource type: News
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Why on Earth Would a Foundation Try to Get Rid of All of Its Money?
Source: Gara LaMarche
The aspect of The Atlantic Philanthropies in which people have the most interest is not that we are one of the largest foundations in the world – in fact, the largest private funder in the countries in which we operate, outside of the U.S. –…
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Why on Earth Would a Foundation Try to Get Rid of All of Its Money?
The reasons behind The Atlantic Philanthropies’ decision to spend all of its endowment are outlined in this 2009 speech by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Annual Meeting of Delaware Valley Grantmakers in Philadelphia. My talk this afternoon poses the question, which I…
Resource type: Speech