Results List
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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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The Role of Foundations in Immigrant Rights
The rights of immigrants must be protected and foundations can use their unique strengths to play a leading role such as funding public education and civic engagement, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies' President and CEO, in this speech at the European Foundation Centre Meeting…
Resource type: Speech
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The Poetic Souls of Middle School
Source: The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content//article/2007/02/13/AR2007021301170.html Serena McIntyre is barely 12, but already the Columbia Heights sixth-grader has suffered the slings and arrows of middle-school fortune. A boy did her wrong. So she wrote "The Love-Drained Blues." I fell in love. With a so sweet boy When I came here…
Resource type: News
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In Memory of Michael I. Sovern
[caption id="attachment_83034" align="alignright" width="250"] Photo: Columbia University[/caption] Atlantic mourns the loss of Michael I. Sovern, who passed away on Monday, January 20, 2020. Sovern served as a Director from 1995 until 2012, and was a long-term Chairman of the Audit and Budget Committee. Sovern was…
Resource type: News
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Hassan v. NYPD
Source: Flatbush Pictures
In a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of stories, the Associated Press revealed through leaked documents that the New York Police Department (NYPD) had secretly launched a vast program of human mapping and surveillance carried out by a so-called "demographics" unit that targeted Muslim communities in New…
Resource type: Video
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Making and Living History
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
Completion of our grantmaking at the end of 2016 brings us one step closer to the end of the path our founder, Chuck Feeney, and Atlantic started down 35 years ago.
Resource type: News
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‘This is All Yours’: Opening Remarks for Isivivana Centre in Khayelitsha
David Sternlieb, Chief Operating Officer of The Atlantic Philanthropies, delivered these remarks at the October 13, 2016 opening of the Isivivana Centre in Khayelitsha township, outside Cape Town, South Africa. Acclaimed author and filmmaker, Zanemvula “Zakes” Mda led the ceremony, hailing the new center as…
Resource type: Speech
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Putting The Brakes On Global Road Crash Deaths: One Foundation’s Efforts
Source: Health Affairs Blog
By Kelly Henning As the United Nations (UN) meets this week to formally adopt the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it will set the stage for dealing with a worldwide scourge—road crashes and the growing rates of traffic deaths and injuries. Road crashes kill more…
Resource type: News
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Ending Well: Maximizing Lasting Impact
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
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…
Resource type: News
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Reforming School Discipline Policies to Improve Children's Success
Source: Grantmakers In Health
By Kavitha Mediratta Head of Racial Equity Programmes, The Atlantic Philanthropies In recent months, we have seen an outpouring of protest by communities of color against aggressive policing and the trauma and violence these tactics engender. A similar phenomenon is occurring in our schools, where…
Resource type: News