Results List
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Nonprofit's Big Bet on Linked Learning
Naomi Post is head of community-based programmes at Atlantic. By Naomi Post, guest commentary The Atlantic Philanthropies is committed to spending its considerable endowment by 2020 in a final push to find workable answers to some seemingly intractable social problems. That means we are making…
Author: San Jose Mercury News
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Purpose Prize Winner Fights for Caregivers
Crusader Barbara Young helped nannies get better pay and benefits. Her new goal: better working conditions for aides to the elderly. When is the last time you worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for total pay of $225? My guess is probably…
Author: Next Avenue
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Revolutionising Research and Higher Education
In a recent Irish Times article, Conor O’Clery tells the story of how, in the late 1990s, Atlantic struck a deal with the Irish Government to jointly invest in post-graduate research. Back then, Atlantic Founding Chairman Chuck Feeney envisioned a quantum leap to help create a knowledge…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Keeping kids insured: CHIP shows how bipartisanship can solve problems
Author Bruce Lesley is President of First Focus, an Atlantic grantee through the Children & Youth programme in the United States. by Bruce Lesley Three years ago, a bill to extend and improve the Children’s Health Insurance Program became law. On Feb. 4, 2009, we…
Author: Pittsburgh Post Gazette
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Houston’s Clergy Unites to Urge Support for Immigration Reform
HOUSTON — The Rev. John W. Bowie knows it is hard to sell the people in his neighborhood on the idea that they should support changing immigration laws to give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. His church lies in one of the oldest black…
Author: The New York Times
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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
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Study Identifies Aging Hispanic Workers as "Invisible Boomers"
Original Source New America Media, AARP and the Urban Institute are Atlantic grantees. EthnicNEWz.org, News Report, Eduardo A. de Oliveira Hispanic workers 50-Plus are a vigorous group of “invisible boomers,” who could help employers solve projected labor shortfalls in the coming years, according to a…
Author: New America Media
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Responding to Economic Crisis, Plus 50 Initiative Expands to Help Older Workers
With unemployment figures on the rise and the economic recession wreaking havoc on retirement accounts, the Plus 50 Initiative at the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) is spearheading a movement by community colleges to help workers age 50 and over train for new jobs…
Author: Plus 50 Initiative at the American Association of Community Colleges
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U.S. healthcare system pinched by nursing shortage
by Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. healthcare system is pinched by a persistent nursing shortage that threatens the quality of patient care even as tens of thousands of people are turned away from nursing schools, according to experts. The shortage has drawn the…
Author: Reuters
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Senate Stimulus Cuts Fall Heavily on Kids
WASHINGTON, DC Today, First Focus, a bipartisan children’s advocacy organization, expressed serious disappointment over the proposed deal in the United States Senate regarding the economic recovery package. Specifically, a recent analysis by the organization has found that in the Senate, more that 45 percent of…
Author: First Focus