Results List
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Why Movements Matter
Paradigm-shifting elections don’t shift paradigms if there aren’t corresponding social movements for change. By VIVIEN LABATON AND GARA LAMARCHE One thing we now know with certainty, more than two years into Barack Obama’s presidency, is that change is an uphill battle. We’re already defending hard-won gains on…
Author: The American Prospect
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Oct. 13th Event: Bill Moyers Interviews Gara LaMarche and Deepak Bhargava: Working Towards Progressive Reform and Social Justice
Join your colleagues for an informal interview with Gara LaMarche, CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, and Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director of the Center for Community Change, moderated by the award winning journalist and public commentator Bill Moyers. Discussion will focus on pressing issues that the…
Author: Philanthropy New York
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The Moral Case for Change
By Gara LaMarche. Note: This article is adapted from a speech by Gara LaMarche called “The Moral Life of Philanthropy,” given at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in September 2010. You can read the full speech here In 1965, Bill Moyers, then a young White…
Author: Yes! Magazine
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Atlantic Joins the White House and Leading Foundations to Expand Opportunities for Young Men of Color
Over $200 million invested to-date to address racial disparities in life outcomes Additional $70 million earmarked for school discipline, criminal justice and Elev8 grantees February 27, 2014 – The Atlantic Philanthropies announced today that they have joined with the White House and nine other…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Study on Bermuda’s girls is needed
The below Royal Gazette article looks at how findings from a new report about unemployed young Black Bermudian men and the gender gap in educational attainment, “Out of School and On the Wall,” led its co-author Dr. Jethwani-Keyser to discover that there was a need for more in-depth analysis on…
Author: The Royal Gazette
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Charitable Relations
Philanthropy adapts to the Obama era. Original Source by Lauren Foster Last November, two weeks after Barack Obama was elected president, Gara LaMarche took to the podium at the annual meeting of Southern California Grantmakers. The president and chief executive of The Atlantic Philanthropies was…
Author: The American Prospect
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The Road Ahead for Progressives: Back to Basics
by Gara LaMarche and Deepak Bhargava Twenty-one months after Barack Obama was inaugurated on a wave of hope for change in America’s politics and policies, at least two important and seemingly contradictory things can be said. First, there has been a series of significant progressive reforms: an economic…
Author: The Nation
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The Perfect Storm
The intensifying economic crisis slams the world of nonprofit organizations. Original Source By Eyal Press In the days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, sat at his desk in Lower Manhattan and reached out to people…
Author: The Nation
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Reasons for Supplementary Budget for the Republic of Ireland
A supplementary budget for the Republic of Ireland contains tough but necessary measures to set the country on the road to recovery after a difficult recession, said Brian Cowen, Taoiseach for the Republic of Ireland, in this speech. Original Source Ceann Comhairle Yesterday, the Minister…
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Philanthropy's Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline
By Kavitha Mediratta Last year, at the beginning of ninth grade, my son’s friend Emmanuel was suspended from school for bringing a brick to class. Emmanuel had found the brick in the schoolyard, and with the satirical wit of a 14-year-old, named it “Softie” and…
Author: American Educator