Results List
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Cover: The 25 Best Givers
With money tight, top philanthropists insist on more bang for the buck. Meet the 25 most effective givers. The KIPP Foundation is an Atlantic grantee. By Suzanne McGee. THE NAME OF THE GAME IN PHILANTHROPY this year is to make your dollars go far —…
Author: Barron's
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Initiative Focuses on Early Learning Programs
The New America Foundation is an Atlantic grantee. by SAM DILLON Tucked away in an $87 billion higher education bill that passed the House last week was a broad new federal initiative aimed not at benefiting college students, but at raising quality in the early…
Author: The New York Times
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Civic Ventures is latest recipient of Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship
Civic Ventures is an Atlantic grantee. Skoll Foundation Invests in Leading Social Entrepreneurs Foundation commits total of $14,165,000 in new funding Civic Ventures is latest recipient of Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship Ashoka and ShoreCap II also receive Skoll investments PALO ALTO, Calif. Sept. 1,…
Author: Civic Ventures
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Obama praises nonprofit, including N.H. group
Harlem Children’s Zone and Teach for America are Atlantic grantees, and Bonnie CLAC is an Atlantic grantee via the Purpose Prize. by Foon Rhee President Obama this afternoon praised a New Hampshire nonprofit that helps poor people buy fuel-efficient reliable cars in a White House event designed to highlight innovative programs…
Author: The Boston Globe
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Budding entrepreneurs honoured
By Alex Wright Bermuda’s budding young business people took centre stage at the 2008 Youth Entrepreneurship Initiative of Bermuda (YEIB) BizCamp Prize Giving ceremony. A total of 15 Bermudian entrepreneurs whose business plans were judged the best of the 2008 BizCamps presented their projects at…
Author: The Royal Gazette (Bermuda)
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Letters to the Editor: Philanthropy and Racism
Original Source To the Editor: Structural-racism training programs have helped hundreds of nonprofit organizations and community foundations, many of which are administered or operated by white people but primarily serve people of color, learn how to orient their theories of change from charity to empowerment…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Growing Up Fast
Will Houston’s charter school expansion revolutionize urban education? Original Source by Jay Mathews It all began with the waiting lists. At Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, long waiting lists are seen as evidence of high standards and prestige. But long waiting lists were the cause of…
Author: Philanthropy Magazine
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Finished, But Not Done
The last two months of 2016 marked the convergence of two critical events for The Atlantic Philanthropies and the people and communities we serve. The first was the completion this month of Atlantic’s grant commitments. We are bringing to conclusion $8 billion in grantmaking over 35…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
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New Thinking Needed to Promote Active Ageing
By Anne Connolly Opinion: In Ireland and throughout the developed world, people are living longer and healthier lives. Every decade, life expectancy is increasing by 2.5 years. At least half of the babies born today in Ireland are likely to live to be 100. The Central…
Author: Irish Times
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East Meets West: 15 years and still building
JOHN W. CONROY VIETNAM — DANANG,For the last 15 years, retired Beekmantown dairy farmer Mark Conroy has been directing humanitarian development work in Vietnam for the East Meets West Foundation. He only last year stepped down as country director and is now the foundation’s senior…
Author: Press Republican