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When Philanthropy Goes Wrong
By ADAM MEYERSON Entrepreneur and philanthropist Chuck Feeney recently made news when his foundation donated $350 million to Cornell University. The huge gift was made to clinch that institution’s victory in Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s competition to build a technology-incubating campus in New York City. Behind the…
Author: The Wall Street Journal
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Fran Barrett Appointed Director of Capacity Building at The Atlantic Philanthropies
Fran Barrett has been appointed Director of Capacity Building at The Atlantic Philanthropies effective September 6, Senior Vice President and Marcia Smith announced today. In this newly created role, Barrett will manage a unit of communications, advocacy, organizational development and fundraising experts who will provide…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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'Pretty Much a Catastrophe': Anna Deavere Smith and the Disaster of the School-to-Prison Pipeline
MSNBC video: Focusing on the school-to-prison pipeline By Emily Wilson Photo Credit: iofoto / Shutterstock.com In the last 20 years, there has been a shocking rise in the number of schools that embrace zero tolerance policies that regularly leave students suspended, expelled or arrested for the…
Author: AlterNet
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Xenophobic Violence in South Africa: Rays of Hope in Terrible Times
Johannesburg, South Africa When I arrived here on Monday after eighteen hours in transit, I was greeted by the horrific image on the front page of that morning’s Star, of a refugee hunted down by a mob and burned alive, in a grim imitation of…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Rockland wins $100,000 grant, kicks off its piece of national youth collaborative initiative
By Randi Weiner WEST NYACK – Rockland is one of four counties in New York to get money for a national program designed to help prepare kids for adulthood by improving the quality of youth programs already in place and getting those hundreds of separate…
Author: The Journal News
