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August 4th Teleconference: How Can Funders Support Promise Neighborhoods?
Join Us for a National Teleconference: Keeping Our Promise: How Can Funders Support Promise Neighborhoods to Increase Educational Opportunity in Distressed Communities? Date: Wednesday, August 4, 2010 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 pm, EDT The U.S. Department of Education’s Promise Neighborhoods Program aims to significantly improve…
Author: Foundation Center
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A Big Bet on Advocacy Helps to Make History on Health Care
“Health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.” I can’t tell you what a thrill it was to hear President Obama speak those words, a few hours ago, after signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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A boom in 'encore careers'
Original Source AmeriCorps, Civic Ventures, and City Year are Atlantic grantees. By Irene Sege When my parents retired, my father taught courses on linguistics and Kosovo and the philosophy of time at a volunteer-run institute for learning in retirement, and my mother picked up pocket…
Author: boston.com
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How Do We Keep Obama's Youth Mobilized?
Original Source Barack Obama’s campaign politicized and organized more youth than any campaign has in recent history. The Prospect asked nine organizers, writers, and thinkers at the forefront of progressivism and youth activism to suggest one way of incorporating these youth into the progressive movement.…
Author: The American Prospect
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Charter school group gets $2.6 million grant Educators: College-ready rolls will increase
by CYNTHIA HOWELL The Knowledge Is Power Program of charter schools in the Delta has received a $2.6 million grant to help open 10 more schools in four Arkansas towns by 2019. The schools would be patterned after the program’s Delta College Preparatory middle and…
Author: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock)
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Lining Up That Second Career Takes Focus
by Kerry Hannon A New York investment banker becomes a small-town chef. A techie turns acupuncturist. An entrenched corporate exec accepts an early retirement package and converts to the ministry. Longer life spans, concerns about outliving retirement savings, and a desire to stay productive are…
Author: U.S. News & World Report
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The Center for After-School Excellence Graduates First Class of After-School Educators
Original Source The after-school field in New York took an important step toward boosting the success of kids who attend after-school and summer programs citywide. In a first for New York City, 72 after-school educators who work with kids in all five boroughs studied this…
Author: The Center for After-School Excellence
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Philanthropy and Government: Striking the Right Balance
Now that both major parties in the U.S. have presumptive nominees for the Presidency, it seems like a good time to share some thoughts on the relationships between philanthropy and government – relationships that Atlantic has considerable experience with in each of the countries in…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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The Spirit of Bermuda – On the Waves and On the Shore
This may be the Atlantic Currents column most in keeping with the title of this series, because it starts with a boat on the Atlantic Ocean. In Bermuda, to be exact — a small country of only 65,000 people, but one very important to Atlantic…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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The Defeat of Immigration Reform in the U.S. – Now What?
Some weeks after the U.S. Senate failed to muster the necessary votes to deal with America’s immigration challenges, a clearer picture is emerging of what happened and what needs to happen next. Atlantic has supported The Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform and a number of…
Author: Gara LaMarche