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Coming of Age with Stop and Frisk: Experiences, Self-Perceptions, and Public Safety Implications
> Read and Download the Report Amid the debate about stop and frisk in New York City, its relationship to reductions in crime, and concerns about racial profiling, one question has gone largely unexplored: How does being stopped by police, and the frequency of those…
Author: Vera Institute of Justice
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Justice advocate faces challenge of recession
Original Source By Lauren Foster Ann Beeson has tackled some tough issues in her career as a human rights advocate and litigator, including challenging the National Security Agency’s illegal surveillance of Americans without a warrant and the constitutionality of the Patriot Act. Now, as executive…
Author: Financial Times
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New Senior Staff Hires Strengthen Atlantic for Social Justice Mission and Spending Down Assets
I don’t usually use this space for organisational announcements, but we have recently made three new appointments to Atlantic’s senior staff, who together bring enormous strengths to our mission and each of whom illustrates something important about where the foundation is going in its final…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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The Purpose Prize: Often the Best Chapters are the Later Ones
When Gordon Johnson was a teenager, his Dad took in two nieces and two nephews whose parents were unable to care for them. He never forgot his father’s big-spirited act, or the neglect by government care agencies that made it necessary. Mr. Johnson pursued a…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Fritz Schwarz to Head The Atlantic Philanthropies Board; Two New Board Members Named
New York, July 3, 2008 The Board of Directors of The Atlantic Philanthropies has elected Frederick Fritz A. O. Schwarz, Jr., as chairman and appointed two new board members. The two new board members are Cecilia Munoz, Vice President of the National Council of LaRaza,…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Dall W. Forsythe Appointed Vice President for Finance and Operations at The Atlantic Philanthropies
July 6, 2010 – Dall W. Forsythe has been appointed Vice President for Finance and Operations at The Atlantic Philanthropies effective July 6, 2010, President and CEO Gara LaMarche announced today. In this role, Forsythe will oversee the Finance and Information Technology departments and will…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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The Fierce Urgency of Atlantic: Bending the Arc in Our Final Years
Thirteen years ago, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ founding chairman Chuck Feeney and our Board of Directors made the decision to complete our grantmaking by the end of 2016. That seemed a long time away. The distant target has now become next year. After extended deliberations during this…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
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