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UN declares 20 February as World Day of Social Justice
Recognizing the need to promote efforts to tackle issues such as poverty, exclusion and unemployment, the United Nations General Assembly has decided to observe 20 February annually – starting in 2009 – as the World Day of Social Justice. In a unanimously adopted resolution, the 192-member body also…
Author: activelink.ie
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Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity Announces Inaugural Class of Fellows
Twenty-nine advocates, organizers and artists selected from across the U.S. and South Africa will work to tackle anti-Black racism and white supremacy. Photo: Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity NEW YORK, NY — The Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity (AFRE) named its first cohort of 29 Atlantic…
Author: Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity
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Betting Big on New Leaders in Health Equity
This is an historic year for The Atlantic Philanthropies. In 2016, we have reached our 35th year of grantmaking, and also our last. In recent updates, I’ve discussed our culminating grants that build on our three and a half decades of work to address…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Atlantic’s Culminating Grants: Cultivating Change
In his latest instalment in a series chronicling Atlantic’s limited life, Tony Proscio at the Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society conjures the image of a harvest to describe our work in Atlantic’s final years. The metaphor is apt. We want to…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Four Successful Innovators Earn UCSF’s Highest Honor
By Leland Kim on April 3, 2012 Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, will bestow the University’s highest honor to four internationally renowned innovators and leaders for outstanding contributions in areas associated with UCSF’s mission to advance health worldwide. She will present the UCSF Medal at the 2012 Founder’s Day…
Author: University of California, San Francisco
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Atlantic Grantees Working for Human Rights
International Human Rights Day on 10 December marks the 63rd year of global recognition of our basic human equality and the continuous struggle to gain basic human rights for all individuals. Reconciliation & Human Rights made up the largest portion of Atlantic’s 2010 grantmaking programmes — funding…
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Not-So Sweet Home Alabama: What Alabamians Are Saying About Their State's New Immigration Law
Kassi Cruz picks tomatoes in Steele, Alabama, on October 3, 2011. Cruz decided to pitch in to help after the majority of migrant workers left after the new Alabama immigration law took effect last week. By Center for American Progress Immigration Team Alabama has reawakened…
Author: Center for American Progress
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Cornell gala honors philanthropic icon Chuck Feeney '56
Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56, the man who quietly amassed an enormous fortune as a duty-free trader and then secretly gave away more than $5 billion through his charitable foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies, stood for the cheers of his fellow Cornellians June 8 at the…
Author: Cornell University
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Study Finds Young Hispanics Face Obstacles to Integration
By Sam Roberts. A snapshot of Hispanic youngsters — the fastest-growing group in the United States by age and ethnicity — concludes that the obstacles and inequalities they face today “may hinder the broader integration of Latinos into U.S. society if left unattended.” If those…
Author: The New York Times
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President Obama Proclaims July 9, 2009 National Summer Learning Day
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING DAY, 2009 – – – – – – – BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Like an athlete out of practice, a child who takes long breaks from learning…
Author: The White House