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Number of HIV/AIDS cases in sub-Saharan Africa expected to greatly outpace resources
WASHINGTON — The number of people infected with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to far outstrip available resources for treatment by the end of the decade, forcing African nations to make difficult choices about how to allocate inadequate supplies of lifesaving antiretroviral therapy (ART),…
Author: National Academy of Sciences
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Announces Full Cohort of Atlantic Fellows
The Atlantic Fellows Program empowers catalytic communities of emerging leaders to advance fairer, healthier and more inclusive societies. Hundreds of changemakers working to solve pressing inequality issues around the world. NEW YORK, NY — The Atlantic Fellows program made a major step forward this month…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Elizabeth Garrett, First Female President of Cornell, Dies at 52
The Atlantic Philanthropies express our profound sadness at the passing of Cornell University President Elizabeth Garrett. Beth’s leadership of Cornell, the alma mater of Atlantic’s Founding Chairman Chuck Feeney, was extraordinary, even in her short tenure, and will endure. As the largest single recipient of…
Author: The New York Times
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Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Establish Global Brain Health Institute to Tackle Dementia
The Atlantic Philanthropies is giving $177 million to Trinity College Dublin and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to establish the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), a groundbreaking initiative that aims to tackle the looming dementia epidemic and improve health and dementia care worldwide. This…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Students Spell Out Messages on Immigration
By JULIA PRESTON MIAMI — Dozens of college students lay down on South Beach on Sunday afternoon, but not to sunbathe. Most were immigrants in this country illegally, and their bodies, fully clothed, formed giant letters that spelled out a message for Floridians and one of…
Author: The New York Times
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The Summer of Their Discontent
Summer School Cuts Threaten Students Original Source The National Center for Summer Learning at Johns Hopkins University is an Atlantic grantee. By TOM BENNING and ANJALI ATHAVALEY Last year, Joseline and Mirelyne De Leon attended free summer school in downtown Los Angeles while their parents…
Author: The Wall Street Journal
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Richard Boone and the Field Foundation: Beacons of Leadership for Social Justice Philanthropy
On a mellow California afternoon earlier this month, I drove a few hours up the coast from Los Angeles, where I’d been on a panel at the annual meeting of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, to spend some time with one of the most influential…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Chuck Feeney's Legacy Lives on as Philanthropic Fund Winds Down
By Ailish O’Horaand Programme leaders from Trinity College Dublin met their benefactor – philanthropist and former billionaire Charles ‘Chuck’ Feeney – at the Global Brain Health Institute conference in San Francisco last week. They were among 70 programme leaders who gathered together from across the…
Author: Irish Independent
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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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The Next Generation of Leaders Advocating for Brain Health
By Dana Smith A monologist, a musician, an event producer, and an animal behaviourist are working to change how society thinks about aging and dementia. These individuals are part of the first cohort of Atlantic Fellows at the Global Brain Health Institute and are using…
Author: The Lancet