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National Community Service Initiative Launched, Leveraged by Organizations Across the Country
Original Source America’s Promise Alliance, the United Way, and the Huffington Post are Atlantic grantees. The Corporation for National and Community Service has announced that it will lead a national, twelve-week initiative developed by the Obama administration to stimulate economic growth and encourage community service…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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Teach For America Receives $1.4 Million to Recruit Math, Science Teachers
Original Source Teach for America is an Atlantic grantee. The Minneapolis-based Medtronic Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the global medical technology company, has announced a three-year, $1.4 million grant to Teach For America to expand its national recruitment and training of math and science teachers. A portion…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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Toyota USA Foundation Awards $3.3 Million for American K-12 Education
Original Source The Academy for Educational Development, the Children’s Aid Society and The After-School Corporation are Atlantic grantees. The Toyota USA Foundation has announced grants totaling $3.3 million to twelve organizations working in the areas of K-12 math, science, and environmental education. The foundation awarded…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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Cisco Commits $4.5 Million to City Year to Curb High School Dropout Crisis
Original Source City Year is an Atlantic grantee. Cisco Systems and the Cisco Foundation have announced a pledge of $4.5 million in new funding to City Year‘s Whole School Whole Child program. The foundation will donate up to $1.5 million over the next three years to enhance the…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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'Expectations Gap' May Be Contributing Factor in Dropout Crisis, Report Finds
Original Source America’s Promise Alliance is an Atlantic grantee. In contrast to most students who drop out, many educators do not believe that students at risk of dropping out would work harder if more were demanded of them, revealing an “expectations gap” that…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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Wasserman Foundation Awards $2 Million to Teach For America-Los Angeles
Teach for America is an Atlantic grantee. Teach For America-Los Angeles has announced a four-year, $2 million grant from the Wasserman Foundation to help build a pipeline of leaders committed to closing the academic achievement gap in Los Angeles. Teach For America recruits and trains…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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Without Federal Reform, Number of Uninsured Could Expand Sharply Over Next Decade, Report Finds
The Urban Institute is an Atlantic grantee. If reforms at the federal level are not enacted, the cost of health care for businesses could double and the number of uninsured Americans could reach 65.7 million within a decade, with middle-income families hit hardest, a new…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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Giving Circles Change Donors' Giving in Positive and Significant Ways
The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers, and the Aspen Institute are Atlantic grantees. OMAHADonors say they give more, give more strategically, and are more knowledgeable about nonprofit organizations and problems in their communities when they participate in…
Author: Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute Commits $60 Million to South Africa Institute for AIDS, TB Research
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland, has announced that it will commit $60 million over ten years to a partnership with the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in South Africa to establish an international research center focused on the co-epidemic of tuberculosis and HIV as…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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In Tough Times, It's Time to Step Up
Susan Carey Dempsey. When Ted Turner made an historic announcement of a billion dollar pledge to the United Nations a decade ago, he wished out loud that lists of most generous donors would become as competitive as lists of the World’s Richest. While there’s some…
Author: International Business Times