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CHRIS RAUBERThe Regents of the University of California voted Thursday to approve construction of a new $1.52 billion women’s, children’s, and cancer specialty hospital at UC San Francisco’s burgeoning Mission Bay campus. The Regents unanimously approved going ahead with the 289-bed hospital in their Sept. 16 board meeting at…

By Grant Williams.  More and more foundations are paying increasing attention to the role of communications in furthering their public-policy work "in ways that go far beyond the annual reports, press releases, and grant lists of yesteryear," according to a new study of 18 foundations…

By Conor O'Carroll. Last Friday the Government continued its commitment to investing in research with more than EUR296 million to develop infrastructure and research capacity across the higher education sector. With universities and institutes of technology bringing in EUR63 million from private and international competitive…

Foundations should take a stance of engaged and critical discomfort with government no matter who is in charge, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech at the Hudson Institute-Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center. I am always glad to take…

KIPP and the National Center for Summer Learning are Atlantic grantees. By Libby Quaid, Ap Education Writer WASHINGTON – Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way. Obama says American kids spend too little…

The New America Foundation is an Atlantic grantee. by SAM DILLON Tucked away in an $87 billion higher education bill that passed the House last week was a broad new federal initiative aimed not at benefiting college students, but at raising quality in the early…

By Gara LaMarche. This article appeared in the October 5, 2009 edition of The Nation. Since the levees burst in New Orleans and the interstate bridge collapsed in Minnesota, much has been written and said about the need to repair the nation's infrastructure, too much…

Original Source KIPP and Harlem Children's Zone are Atlantic grantees. The $100 billion education stimulus package gives Education Secretary Arne Duncan unprecedented leverage to energize the languishing school reform effort. Mr. Duncan has said from the start that he wants the states to transform about…

A Decade of Progress in Meeting the “Afterschool for All” Challenge   09 Jun 2009 Below is a powerpoint presentation delivered by Bob Stonehill, former head of the $1 bn 21st Century Community Learning Centers fund at the Department of Education, now the Chief Learning…

by JOHN LELAND Teresa Denk is 59 years old and lives with her father, a former mechanic who is 92 and requires constant care. Ms. Denk has not held a full-time job since 2000, when her mother developed cancer and required her daughter's full-time care.…