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With President Obama’s signature on 21 July 2010, consumer protections were established and strengthened regulations were put in place that will provide increased oversight and transparency of the financial sector as a whole. Throughout the campaign for financial reform, progressive advocates made sure that the…

By Bill Zlatos The Pittsburgh Foundation is broadening its grantmaking — delving into the environment and advocacy — so it can become more of a community leader. "The public face of The Pittsburgh Foundation has been youthful, curious, positive, optimistic and exuberant — a kind…

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…

Summary: An article from The Aspen Institute discussing its community roundtable project on racial equity. Atlantic provided support for its June 2006 seminar.

Award winning documentary company partners with The Atlantic Philanthropies to train people of color in the areas of film and social mediaCulver City, California (August 12, 2015) - Production Company Brave New Films, headed by award winning filmmaker Robert Greenwald has partnered with The Atlantic Philanthropies…

By Gara LaMarche.Note: This article is adapted from a speech by Gara LaMarche called “The Moral Life of Philanthropy,” given at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in September 2010. You can read the full speech hereIn 1965, Bill Moyers, then a young White House aide,…

This column is adapted from Gara LaMarche's address with this title given recently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.   In 1965, Bill Moyers, then a young White House aide, talked with President Lyndon Johnson about a pending bill to provide retroactive Social Security payments. …

Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, discussed his concerns about a growing need for a stronger moral framework for philanthropy at the Starr Forum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.   Forty-five years ago, a young aide named Bill Moyers sat in the…

Gara LaMarche, Atlantic's President and CEO addressed the 2010 graduating class at the Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools in Haley Farm, Knoxville, Tennessee. I want to start out by saying that I have no recollection of the commencement address when I graduated from St. Bernard’s…