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Keynote speech by Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, given at the Annual Conference of Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois.  This is an extraordinary moment to gather and reflect, as we have planned to do…

Original Source By BOB MOOS Move over, Bill Gates. You've got company. The former full-time executive of Microsoft and present co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is just one of an estimated 1.1 million baby boomers who have traded jobs in the corporate…

Original Source by BOB MOOS After a decade or more of corporate downsizings, baby boomers are looking upon cradle-to-grave job security with the same nostalgia as Hula Hoops and 45 rpm records. When boomers entered the workforce, many thought they could spend their careers with…

A program called Life by Design aims to help aging adults move forward Original Source by Nikole Hannah-Jones Betsy Radigan became a widow at 49 and realized that she didn't know what to do with the rest of her life. Since she'd been married, all…

After-school programs learn how to make kids conversant in the language of the digital age. Original Source by Deborah Huso OK, so you have computers in your after-school program. Now, what do the kids do with them? If they do some Web research and play…

When Gerard McCarten, a butcher from North Belfast, steeled up his courage to testify before the local health authority about the suicide of his son Danny two years ago, the officials he was dealing with got up and opened the windows in the room onto…

Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, talks about his experiences of effective collaboration, how to make an impact and what it takes to leave a legacy in philanthropy in this speech to the New Mexico Regional Association of Grantmakers in Albuquerque. I have…

At the beginning of every nonprofit movement - whether it succeeds or fails - the founders probably feel like Odysseus. No matter how much momentum you start with, and how many battles you win in creating an idea and whipping up enthusiasm for it, actually…

By Martha Nichols Boston It's a long way from the wood-paneled offices of consulting firms like Bain & Co. to the yard-sale decor of a youth-serving nonprofit. Yet the Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit consulting spinoff of Bain, is trying to connect those worlds. Only six…

and How Do You Develop an Organizational Culture that Encourages It? The Evaluation Exchange Volume XI, No. 2, Summer 2005 Issue Topic: Evaluation Methodology Ask the Expert John A. Healy, Director of Strategic Learning and Evaluation at The Atlantic Philanthropies, shares ways to position learning…