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Cover: The 25 Best Givers
With money tight, top philanthropists insist on more bang for the buck. Meet the 25 most effective givers. The KIPP Foundation is an Atlantic grantee. By Suzanne McGee. THE NAME OF THE GAME IN PHILANTHROPY this year is to make your dollars go far —…
Author: Barron's
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Can Harlem's education success story work elsewhere?
I remember covering poverty-stricken schools. Sitting in classrooms in which the teachers were disillusioned or killing time, meeting parent volunteers unable to read to the class and children who appeared rather hopeless.It’s bleak.Of course, there are always a few bright spots, and journalists love to…
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Federal ARRA Funds Keep Kids Learning and Adults Working During Summer
Original Source The National Center for Summer Learning at The Johns Hopkins University and The Building Educated Leaders for Life program (BELL) are Atlantic grantees. by Ron Fairchild For many disadvantaged children, summer is a time when school is forgotten and academic progress comes undone.…
Author: The Huffington Post
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Task to Aid Self-Esteem Lifts Grades for Some
Original Source By BENEDICT CAREY Some seventh graders who were struggling in class did significantly better after performing a series of brief confidence-building writing exercises, and the improvements continued through eighth grade, researchers reported Thursday. The students who benefited most were blacks who were doing…
Author: The New York Times
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Philanthropic Sector Needs Robust Information Marketplace, Report Argues
Original Source Participants in the philanthropic world — from foundations and wealthy donors to the nonprofits that seek their support — should do more to create a robust marketplace of information about charitable activity if they hope to increase their social impact, a new report…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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Funding pre-K and fighting crime
by FRAN WOOD If you’re among the considerable number of New Jerseyans who question the value of taxpayer-funded preschool education, you may want to take note of some astonishing statistics reported in Trenton yesterday. Fight Crime; Invest in Kids, a national nonprofit anti-crime organization of…
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Study Cites Toll of AIDS Policy in South Africa
Original Source By CELIA W. DUGGER JOHANNESBURG — A new study by Harvard researchers estimates that the South African government would have prevented the premature deaths of 365,000 people earlier this decade if it had provided antiretroviral drugs to AIDS patients and widely administered drugs…
Author: The New York Times
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After School Programme Funding Soars Since Launch of Public-Private Initiative in New York City
Ten years after the launch of a programme to encourage the creation of sustainable public funding streams for after-school programmes, every level of government has dramatically increased public funding for comprehensive after-school programmes in New York City, as examined in this report by the Institute…
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$70 Million Effort Seeks New Safety Net for Workers
by STEVEN GREENHOUSE The Rockefeller Foundation’s annual report is chock-full of photographs of exotic lands and details of its grants to fight disease in Cambodia and help African farmers improve their soil. It is part of the foundation’s focus on what it calls smart globalization.…
Author: The New York Times
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Work past retirement age? Avoid pitfalls, penalties
Original Source BY MARK MILLER Tribune Media Services So you’re getting ready to retire, but think you’ll want to keep working in some fashion after you leave. Maybe you’ll downshift to a part-time position with your former employer, or do some consulting. Congratulations on making…
Author: New York Newsday
