Results List
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'Index' says independent elderly are falling short
This article, originally published on 28 March 2011, provides an overview of the Elder Economic Security Index for Washington, which is part Atlantic grantee Wider Opportunities for Women’s Elder Economic Security Initiative™ that seeks to build economic security for older adults through a multi-pronged approach that includes organising, advocacy…
Author: The Olympian
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Older and More Diverse: America's Multicultural Future is Approaching Fast, But Are We Ready?
By David E. ThigpenVice President of Policy and Strategic Advancement, Insight Center Elders are revered for their experience and wisdom in many cultures around the globe, but here in America where our civic, media and business cultures worship at the fountain of youth, elders are…
Author: Huffington Post
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Raising False Alarms
By Bob Herbert If there’s a better government program than Social Security, I’d like to know what it is. It has gone a long way toward eliminating poverty among the elderly. Great numbers of them used to live and die in ghastly, Dickensian conditions of…
Author: The New York Times
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CDCUs Receive Grant to Further Financial Work With Seniors
By David Morrison The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions has received a grant to put a program into place that will help senior citizens attain financial security. The National Federation reported that the grant from the Atlantic Philanthropies will lead to eight CDCUs…
Author: Credit Union Times
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WOW Works with Obama Administration to Advocate for Women and Families
Following the U.S. Presidential Election, Atlantic grantee Wider Opportunities for Women has worked with the Obama Transition Team to advocate on a number of issues related to work, women and family. In late 2008, as a result of a letter to the President-Elect regarding priorities for his first 100…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Supporting Initiatives By and For Women Is Critical To Achieving Social Justice
In their new book, “Half the Sky,” Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn assert that there can be no social or economic justice, or human rights progress around the world, that does not have women and girls at its core. It’s a…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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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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$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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Empower people to help themselves
By Jay Naidoo. I WOULD like to recommend that we think of philanthropy not simply as a means of “giving back”, but as a means of ‘giving forward’. Taken this way, philanthropy can be seen as a means to promote the stability of African society…
Author: Philanthropy SA
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The right way to mend immigration
Our immigration system is badly broken. Although our borders have become far more secure in recent years, too many people seeking illegal entry get through. We have no way to track whether the millions who enter the United States on valid visas each year leave…
Author: The Washington Post