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President Recognizes Atlantic Grantees, Promotes Encore Careers
Today in an event in the East Room of the White House, President Obama highlighted innovative non-profit programmes that are making a difference in communities across the country. Programmes such asHarlem Children’s Zone (an Atlantic grantee), Teach for America (an Atlantic grantee), HopeLab, Genesys Works, and Bonnie CLAC (an Atlantic…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Trickle-down financial crisis hits neediest
by ROBIN SHULMAN For Citymeals-on-Wheels, a nonprofit group that delivers food to homebound New Yorkers, the Wall Street crisis already means 100,000 fewer meals will be delivered to people who need them. One day this spring, the group lost about $500,000 it expected from employees…
Author: The Washington Post
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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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Nonprofit Consulting Goes Upscale
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…
Author: Youth Today
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NonProfit Times Announces Influential Top 50 for 2009
Original Source The NonProfit Times, a leading business publication covering the nonprofit sector, has released its annual Power and Influence Top 50 list, which this year reflects the growing importance of the national service movement. This year’s list also boasts the P&I debut of eighteen…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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Charitable Relations
Philanthropy adapts to the Obama era. Original Source by Lauren Foster Last November, two weeks after Barack Obama was elected president, Gara LaMarche took to the podium at the annual meeting of Southern California Grantmakers. The president and chief executive of The Atlantic Philanthropies was…
Author: The American Prospect