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Special Invitation - Quality Peer Learning Community call - Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. EST
The APAN Online Community extends an invitation for you to join their next Quality Peer Learning Community call on Wednesday, July 9th from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time, featuring guest speaker Dr. Claudia Weisburd, Executive Director of the Center for Afterschool Education at…
Author: Institute for Youth, Education, and Families
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Massive Grants to Transform Nursing Education in South Africa
New Programme Will Improve Nursing Education, Increase Ranks of University Educated Nurses and Benefit All South Africans Cape Town, 11 December 2008 – Nursing education in South Africa will be boosted by an unprecedented injection of R70-million over four years from The Atlantic Philanthropies, an…
Author: Inyathelo The South African Institute for Advancement
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Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Establish Global Brain Health Institute to Tackle Dementia
The Atlantic Philanthropies is giving $177 million to Trinity College Dublin and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to establish the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), a groundbreaking initiative that aims to tackle the looming dementia epidemic and improve health and dementia care worldwide. This…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Consensus on Learning Time Builds
by Catherine Gewertz Under enormous pressure to prepare students for a successful future-and fearful that standard school hours don’t offer enough time to do so-educators, policymakers, and community activists are adding more learning time to children’s lives. This issue is hot right now, said Bela…
Author: Education Week
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Instead of retiring, seniors are REWIRING
by Mike McLean A job-skills program called Plus 50 that’s geared toward retirement-aged people wishing to remain in the work force is achieving early success at Community Colleges of Spokane and has been named as a model training program for other community colleges. CCS’s Institute…
Author: Journal of Business-Spokane
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One Year Into My Brother's Keeper – What We've Done and What's to Come
By Kavitha Mediratta Head of Racial Equity Programs The Atlantic Philanthropies As today’s reports from President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative and the Executives’ Alliance for Boys and Men of Color make clear, tremendous work has been done in the past year. And much more…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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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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After-School Sessions Expanding the Reach of Summer Program
Study shows children who took part improved their reading skills by Kathleen Kennedy Manzo Following a day of classwork, about 40 students from neighboring schools gather in the media center at Fairview Elementary School for a celebration of a day well spent. After a reading…
Author: Education Week
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A “Life Course” Approach Breaks Down Silos to Strengthen Social Justice
I am just concluding almost a month working from Atlantic’s offices in Ireland. Among the many terrific experiences I’ve had was a visit to the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), where last week my colleagues and I met with the faculty of the Life…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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The Fierce Urgency of Atlantic: Bending the Arc in Our Final Years
Thirteen years ago, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ founding chairman Chuck Feeney and our Board of Directors made the decision to complete our grantmaking by the end of 2016. That seemed a long time away. The distant target has now become next year. After extended deliberations during this…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies