Results List
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Atlantic's Focus on Dementia Goes Global
For more than two decades Atlantic has invested in programs to strengthen the quality of our lives, with a major emphasis on addressing needs arising from a worldwide population living longer than ever. Part of that work has included support for initiatives to leverage the…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Getting the Communication Plan Right From Day One
Stacey Easterling is a Programme Executive for Ageing at The Atlantic Philanthropies. In 2007, The Atlantic Philanthropies began funding a national pilot in which success depended on engaging, and helping shift society’s perceptions of, people over age 60. This pilot needed to take hold in a…
Author: Stacey Easterling, Programme Executive
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New Senior Staff Hires Strengthen Atlantic for Social Justice Mission and Spending Down Assets
I don’t usually use this space for organisational announcements, but we have recently made three new appointments to Atlantic’s senior staff, who together bring enormous strengths to our mission and each of whom illustrates something important about where the foundation is going in its final…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Obama praises nonprofit, including N.H. group
Harlem Children’s Zone and Teach for America are Atlantic grantees, and Bonnie CLAC is an Atlantic grantee via the Purpose Prize. by Foon Rhee President Obama this afternoon praised a New Hampshire nonprofit that helps poor people buy fuel-efficient reliable cars in a White House event designed to highlight innovative programs…
Author: The Boston Globe
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Obama to Sign Landmark National-Service Measure on Tuesday
Original Source By Suzanne Perry The nonprofit world will take a break from its economic woes and celebrate a big political victory on Tuesday when President Obama signs landmark legislation that boosts national service, volunteerism, and innovative social projects. The president, fulfilling a campaign pledge…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Why Mature Activism May Save the Planet
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…
Author: AARP Bulletin Today
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Baby boomers aren't sailing into cushy retirements
by JANE GLENN HAAS It wasn’t supposed to end this way. For baby boomers trickling toward retirement, these were going to be the golden years. The good life earned after toiling in some version of the 20th-Century vineyards. A big percentage of boomers envisioned no…
Author: The Orange County Register
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Kennedy files national service bill
by SUSAN MILLIGAN WASHINGTON – Senator Edward M. Kennedy, ailing from a brain tumor but determined to pass a series of pet legislative priorities, formally introduced a major national service bill yesterday, asking Congress to fund programs to draw another 175,000 Americans of all ages…
Author: The Boston Globe
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First U.S. woman to attempt Everest faces challenge with toxins research
Blum was recently one of six entrepreneurs over age 60 to win a $100,000 Purpose Prize Original Source By Kristin Bender BERKELEY — Arlene Blum has done some mind-boggling and challenging things in her 63 years. But even after climbing some of the world’s highest…
Author: Oakland Tribune
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UGA Odum School of Ecology faculty member honored for innovations after age 60
Athens, Ga. – Carl Jordan, senior research scientist at the University Of Georgia Odum School of Ecology, was recently designated as a 2008 Purpose Prize Fellow by Civic Ventures think tank. The Purpose Prize is awarded for people over 60 who are taking on society’s…
Author: University of Georgia