Results List
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Why Mature Activism May Save the Planet
Source: AARP Bulletin Today
Original Source AARP and Civic Ventures are Atlantic grantees. By: Rob Gurwitt It was not a promising start. Getting ready to head out for the Utah wilderness, Lee Verner had packed her clothes in a black bag, laid it down on a black chair and…
Resource type: News
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Children's Rights Alliance Bi-Annual Symposium 2009: 'Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?'
Source: Children's Rights Alliance
Children's Rights Alliance is an Atlantic grantee. On 2 April, over 100 delegates descended on Dublin Castle to attend the Children's Rights Alliance's first biennial symposium, where they pledged to make Ireland one of the best places in the world to be a child. Entitled…
Resource type: News
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Elderly Emerge as a New Class of Workers -- and the Jobless
Source: The Wall Street Journal
by CLARE ANSBERRY AKRON, Ohio -- Mary Appleby, 76 years old, lost her job in January as a cashier at a courthouse cafeteria here. She is now looking for minimum-wage work. Mary Bennett, 80, began filling out applications for fast-food restaurants and convenience stores after…
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Two Atlantic grantees featured on Irish television programme, "Nationwide"
Source: RTE
Link to Video Recently two Atlantic grantees were featured in media coverage on the 9 February 2009 edition of the RTÉ television programme, " Nationwide." Big Brother Big Sister (5:45)Orla Nix looks at the youth mentoring programme operated by Foróige, the National Youth Development Organisation Pioneering Initiative (Archways)…
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Eldercare Workforce Alliance to Address the Critical Shortage of Healthcare Workers Capable of Meeting the Needs of Older Adults
Source: Eldercare Workforce Alliance
The Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA) -- a new coalition of 25 leading organizations representing older adults and the eldercare workforce, including family caregivers, healthcare professionals, and direct-care workers -- is holding its founding meeting this week in Washington, D.C. This wide array of national organizations…
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In Tough Times, It's Time to Step Up
Source: International Business Times
Susan Carey Dempsey.When Ted Turner made an historic announcement of a billion dollar pledge to the United Nations a decade ago, he wished out loud that lists of most generous donors would become as competitive as lists of the World's Richest. While there's some understandable…
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Grant to help center expand program to the national level
Source: Boston College Heights
Original Source By: Ashley Schneider The Atlantic Philanthropies awarded a $3.5 million grant to Kevin Mahoney, a professor in the graduate school of social work and director of the Center for the Study of Home and Community Life (CSHCL), to help the center's Cash & Counseling Program…
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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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Initiative aims to spur more advocacy funding
Source: Philanthropy Journal
Original Source by Todd Cohen RALEIGH, N.C. -- Foundations and other groups invested more than $2.6 million over five years to help 14 New Mexico nonprofits in their work involving advocacy, community organizing and civic engagement, an investment that generated $16.6 million in benefits for…
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Separating generations a bad idea; When young, old live together, it's better for society.
Source: Newsday (New York)
by Susanne Bleiberg Seperson and Paul Arfin Susanne Bleiberg Seperson is director of the Center for Intergenerational Policy and Practice at Dowling College. Paul Arfin is president and chief executive of Intergenerational Strategies, a nonprofit charitable organization. President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel,…
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