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Couple having a blast "giving while living"
Source: Cleveland Jewish News
Cornell University is an Atlantic grantee. By ARLENE FINE, Senior Staff Reporter Jane and Lee Seidman made headlines last week for pledging $6 million to Cleveland Clinic’s Hillcrest Hospital to help fund a new 72-bed patient tower at the Mayfield Heights hospital. This donation is…
Resource type: News
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Tricky Road Ahead for Innovation Fund
Source: Education Week
Original source Teach for America and Grantmakers for Education are Atlantic grantees. By Erik W. Robelen Federal education officials will face a variety of obstacles in running a $650 million innovation fund, from an expected flood of applications and concern about favoritism in picking winners,…
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Lancet: Leadership needed to fight SA violence
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
Original Source Save the Children, University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand, University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Pretoria, and University of the Western Cape are Atlantic grantees. Funding for this publication was provided by Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children USA through a grant from…
Resource type: News
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N.C. special licensing program rewards long-term care providers who maintain high-quality workforce
Source: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
For release: Immediate Date: August 21, 2006 Contact: Jim Jones (919) 733-9190 RALEIGH North Carolina has created a first-in-the-nation program to help reduce the turnover of nurse aides and other direct care workers who provide hands-on care to hundreds of thousands of the state's elderly…
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The Atlantic Philanthropies in South Africa: Some Reflections on the First 100 Days of the Zuma Government
Source: Gerald Kraak
This week Gerald Kraak, Programme Executive with Atlantic’s Reconciliation & Human Rights Programme and a veteran South African human rights advocate based in our Johannesburg office, shares his thoughts on the first 100 days of President Zuma’s administration. While international coverage of the April…
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A Nonprofit Push for Change
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Coalition of groups band together in battle to overhaul health care Original Source Health Care for America Now, Families USA, the American Cancer Society and AARP are Atlantic grantees. By Suzanne Perry As members of Congress fan out across the country during their August recess,…
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Inspiring Miami-Dade middle schoolers is young teachers' goal
Original Source and Video Breakthrough Collaborative is an Atlantic grantee. BY SUSANA MONTES-DELGADO In her black shirt, jeans and sneakers on campus, one might mistake 20-year-old Yamile Rodriguez for a student. No, she's a teacher. Rodriguez, a college junior from Hialeah, gave up her summer…
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Report - The Strong Field Framework: A Guide and Toolkit for Funders and Nonprofits Committed to Large-Scale Impact
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source The Bridgespan Group is an Atlantic grantee, as is the Aspen Institute, one of the examples given in the report. The Bridgespan Group has issued a new report designed to help foundations and nonprofits assess the strengths and needs in fields they seek…
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PHI Establishes National Policy/Advocacy Office in DC
Source: PHI
Bronx, NY - PHI, a nonprofit working to strengthen eldercare and disability services in the United States, announces that it has opened a national policy/advocacy office in Washington, DC. The opening of the DC-based office caps a year in which the Bronx-based PHI has significantly…
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Recognise Key Role of Migrant Care Workers in Our Ageing Society
Source: Centre on Migration, Policy and Society
Migrant workers play a vital role in the care of older people in the United Kingdom but they face poor pay and working conditions that the government must address to ensure fair treatment for the workers, according to this report funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies…
Resource type: Research Report