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Memory Work: South Africa After Apartheid
Visitors look at the display at the Women’s Goal Museum, which used to house female political prisoners. In 1994, Nelson Mandela had just been elected president of South Africa after serving a 27-year prison sentence. Atlantic began looking for ways to support this country on the…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Keeping Memory Alive
It wasn’t easy ten years ago when 19 people from diverse backgrounds in Northern Ireland came together to talk about setting up the Healing Through Remembering (HTR) Project. Intense feelings and bitter memories of the conflict made it sometimes hard to be in the same…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Charles Feeney to receive Cornell Icon of the Industry Award
Ithaca, NY – Charles F. Feeney, co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers (DFS) and founding chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies, will receive the 2010 Icon of the Industry Award from the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration (SHA) at a gala dinner in New York City…
Author: Cornell University
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Atlantic Founding Chairman Grants Speed Medical Research and Collaboration on Several Continents
Since coming to Atlantic a few years ago, I’ve become aware, on an almost daily basis, of the enormous impact that this formerly anonymous foundation has had over the years across a range of areas and geographies. One part of the story that should be more widely…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Foundations help nonprofits hurt in Madoff affair
By RACHEL BECK NEW YORK (AP) – Nonprofits that are struggling because their donors lost money with Bernard Madoff are getting a bailout — but not from the government. Richer foundations are stepping in to help. Human Rights Watch, The Center for Constitutional Rights and others are…
Author: Associated Press
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Celebration Guests Extol Cornell Tech’s Beauty, Achievement and Promise
Guests attend a reception at the Cornell Tech campus Sept. 12, on the eve of the dedication. By Joe Wilensky On Roosevelt Island Sept. 12, on the eve of the Cornell Tech campus dedication, excitement was already building. Guests gathered on the new campus for…
Author: Cornell Chronicle
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Programme Identifies How to Improve Children’s Literacy in Disadvantaged Communities
A major research programme has identified an effective approach to improve children’s literacy in disadvantaged communities – and recommended this approach become available to other communities wanting to improve early childhood literacy. Launching the Evaluation Report of Doodle Den, a children’s literacy programme run in…
Author: Childhood Development Initiative
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Cornell to Induct 11 Athletes to University Hall of Fame in November
By Lauren Ritter Goaltender Matt Underhill ’02 is one of the seven All-Americans that will be inducted into the Cornell University Athletic Hall of Fame in November. On Aug. 24, Cornell Athletics announced that 11 new members have been selected for induction into the Cornell…
Author: The Cornell Daily Sun
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The Atlantic Philanthropies leads USA delegation to QLD
A vision to more rapidly translate health research into breakthrough medicines for patients is the driving force behind talks held this week between Queensland’s ‘Smart State’ medical research institutes and one of the world’s top medical research universities. A delegation from the University of California,…
Author: UQ (University of Queensland) News
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Criminal justice policy should be based on systematic research
PAUL O’CONNOR outlines the role of UCD’s Institute of Criminology in producing evidence-based research for policy-making A LITTLE over a decade ago the Institute of Criminology was established in the School of Law at UCD. Since then, the multifaceted issue of crime and punishment has…
Author: The Irish Times