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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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Atlantic and The California Endowment Commit $12.2 Million for Healthcare Career Pathways In Oakland Unified School District
Grants will support and expand pathways to healthcare careers in Oakland The Atlantic Philanthropies and The California Endowment today announced $12.2 million in grants to the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) and Alameda Health Care Services Agency (HCSA) to support and expand health career pathways…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Brian O'Connell Visiting African Scholar Fund Will Introduce UWC Students to Black Scholars from Around the World
Brian O’Connell, former Vice Chancellor and Rector of the University of the Western Cape. Photo courtesy of UWC. The Atlantic Philanthropies and The Kresge Foundation announced today a joint investment of $500,000 (R5,726,102.50) to establish The Brian O’Connell Visiting African Scholar Fund, which will bring…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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MEDICC's Gail Reed's Talk on Cuba's Latin American Medical School Featured on TED.com
MEDICC today announced co-founder Gail Reed’s inspirational TEDMED talk on the Latin American Medical School (ELAM) has been selected and featured as a TED Talk. The popular TED Talks platform widely shares “Ideas Worth Spreading” and has attracted more than 1 billion views since 2006. Reed’s…
Author: MEDICC
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Schools Must Abandon Zero-Tolerance Discipline
By Kavitha Mediratta In 2007, the high school graduation rate in Baltimore, a city where the school system serves 85,000 mostly African-American and low-income students, was an abysmal 34 percent. Then Andrés A. Alonso, the chief executive for the city’s schools, took action. He revised the…
Author: Education Week
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'Pretty Much a Catastrophe': Anna Deavere Smith and the Disaster of the School-to-Prison Pipeline
MSNBC video: Focusing on the school-to-prison pipeline By Emily Wilson Photo Credit: iofoto / Shutterstock.com In the last 20 years, there has been a shocking rise in the number of schools that embrace zero tolerance policies that regularly leave students suspended, expelled or arrested for the…
Author: AlterNet
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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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On the Joint Initiative to Expand Opportunities for Young Men of Color
The Atlantic Philanthropies are pleased to join with our foundation partners, the White House and leading U.S. businesses to improve opportunities for the most disadvantaged among us. Our commitment to this initiative stems from our longstanding focus on promoting equal opportunity and racial equity in…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Purpose Prize Winners: Changing The World After 60
By Richard Eisenberg Maybe you recall these Crosby Stills and Nash lyrics, as I do: We can change the worldRearrange the worldIt’s dying — to get better Let me tell you about seven inspiring older Americans — six women and one man — who are,…
Author: Forbes
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Alameda County Health Clinic Network for Neediest
Karen Gersten-Rothenberg, director of Havenscourt Health Center, talks with Carlos Aguilar and his mother. Photo: Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle By Stephanie M. Lee Getting blood drawn should have been an easy part of Selesi Alatini’s checkup. But on this day, the nurses at Havenscourt Health…
Author: San Francisco Chronicle