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New National Collaborative Aims to Improve Outcomes for Boys and Men of Color
Improving Outcomes for Boys and Men of Color: New National Collaborative Aims to Identify and Share Best Practices and Fund Cross-Cutting Academic and Community-Based Research A new multifaceted effort, RISE (Research, Integration, Strategy and Evaluation) for Boys and Men of Color, has launched to identify…
Author: University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
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Atlantic and The California Endowment Commit $12.2 Million for Healthcare Career Pathways In Oakland Unified School District
Grants will support and expand pathways to healthcare careers in Oakland The Atlantic Philanthropies and The California Endowment today announced $12.2 million in grants to the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) and Alameda Health Care Services Agency (HCSA) to support and expand health career pathways…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Foundations Giving Voice to the Voiceless
By Kimberley Chin, Programme Executive, The Atlantic Philanthropies Sound policy can only be effective if it represents the experiences and voices of the people it is trying to benefit. The theme for the Grantmakers In Health (GIH) annual meeting this year, The Power of Voice,…
Author: Grantmakers In Health
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The Atlantic Philanthropies To Support Cornell University’s New Tech Campus in New York City
Rendering: Aerial view of NYC Tech Campus courtesy of Cornell University. The City of New York has partnered with Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology for its Applied Sciences NYC initiative, which will transform more than 10 acres of Roosevelt Island into an…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Support Cornell University’s Applied Sciences NYC Initiative Through Significant Grant
The Atlantic Philanthropies are pleased to announce a grant totaling $350 million to Cornell University to support the Cornell University/Technion-Israel Institute of Technology’s consortium for the Applied Sciences NYC initiative. The consortium’s ground-breaking partnership with the City of New York seeks to build what will…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Name Human Rights Advocate Martin O’Brien Senior Vice President for Programmes
The Atlantic Philanthropies have announced the appointment of Martin O’Brien, a renowned human rights activist, as Senior Vice President for Programmes, effective immediately. O’Brien has served as Atlantic’s Country Director for Northern Ireland since 2010 and Director of its global Reconciliation & Human Rights Programme…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Lack of support leaves Bermuda's young men on the scrap heap - report
The below Royal Gazette article features some of the findings of a new report, “Out of School and ‘On the Wall’: A qualitative look into the lives of unemployed young Black Bermudian men and the gender gap in educational attainment,” by Drs. Monique Jethwani-Keyser and…
Author: The Royal Gazette
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Are Well-Off Progressives Standing in the Way of a Real Movement for Economic Justice?
By Alyssa Battistoni Many progressives are affluent and well-educated. Does their elite status stand in the way of a movement to fight attacks on the working class? Over the past few years, it’s become an article of faith among progressives that we’re living through a…
Author: AlterNet
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Revamp of child services urged
By EOIN BURKE-KENNEDY Early intervention and evidence-based programmes are key to improving outcomes for at-risk children and saving money for the taxpayer in the longer term. This was the clear message to Government from the “What’s working for children” conference in Dublin today. Speaking at…
Author: The Irish Times
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The Power of the People
The calling of Gavin Smith and the Chewstick movement WRITTEN BY COOPER STEVENSON | PHOTOGRAPHY BY: SCOTT TUCKER Chewstick founder Gavin Djata Smith and Carly Lodge There is a corps of Bermudian creatives that, every Saturday night, makes its way into Hamilton to gather…
Author: The Bermudian