Results List
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Philanthropy and Government: Striking the Right Balance
Source: Gara LaMarche
Now that both major parties in the U.S. have presumptive nominees for the Presidency, it seems like a good time to share some thoughts on the relationships between philanthropy and government – relationships that Atlantic has considerable experience with in each of the countries in…
Resource type: News
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Refugees Out in Cold After Funds Dry Up
Source: Cape Argus (Cape Town)
19 Jun 2008 By Natasha Prince Several of the Caledon Square group of refugees were back on the streets on Wednesday night, geared up to sleep in the rain outside the Cape Town magistrate's court after the Treatment Action Campaign ran out of funds to…
Resource type: News
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Letters to the Editor: Philanthropy and Racism
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Original Source To the Editor: Structural-racism training programs have helped hundreds of nonprofit organizations and community foundations, many of which are administered or operated by white people but primarily serve people of color, learn how to orient their theories of change from charity to empowerment…
Resource type: News
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Upper age limit for jury service to be abolished
Source: The Irish Times
Original Source by Elaine Edwards The Government has been urged to remove all discriminatory elements of the law governing who can serve on a jury after it announced that the upper age limit for jury service will be abolished. The decision was announced on Tuesday…
Resource type: News
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Talent in Philanthropy
Newspaper reporters, baseball pitching scouts, art dealers and movie studio casting agents all provide models for philanthropy to follow in finding and cultivating talented programme officers, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech to the Foundation Impact Research Group, Terry…
Resource type: Speech
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Philanthropy for social change: a response to Michael Edwards
Source: OpenDemocracy
By Gara LaMarche Michael Edwards, in his openDemocracy essay " Philanthrocapitalism: after the goldrush" (20 March 2008), raises an important and necessary voice of concern about trends in philanthropy that have received too little scrutiny to date - either because, as is often the case…
Resource type: News
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Marcia Smith Appointed Vice President of The Atlantic Philanthropies
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
New York, March 3, 2008 -- Marcia Smith, an award-winning documentary film maker with extensive foundation and government experience, has been appointed Vice-President of The Atlantic Philanthropies, President and Chief Executive Officer Gara LaMarche announced today. Smith will over see Atlantic's programmes on Disadvantaged Children…
Resource type: News
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Building Capacity for Maximum Impact
Gara LaMarche delivers the Keynote Address at the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York Symposium: Baruch College School of Public Affairs. It’s a little odd that I should be standing here this morning to share some thoughts about the role of evaluation in foundations…
Resource type: Speech
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Impact, Legacy and Collaboration
Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, talks about his experiences of effective collaboration, how to make an impact and what it takes to leave a legacy in philanthropy in this speech to the New Mexico Regional Association of Grantmakers in Albuquerque. I have…
Resource type: Speech
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Appoints Gara LaMarche New Chief Executive Officer
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
For further information please contact:Kate Bullinger in New York at +212 916 7302Colin McCrea in Dublin at +353 1 799 5912THE ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES APPOINTS GARA LAMARCHENEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERPhilanthropy Executive Brings Record of Innovative Leadership to an Organisation Committed to Social Change and to Disbursing…
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