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Interview - Christopher Oechsli
The Atlantic Philanthropies is coming to the end of its life as a grantmaking foundation. It is due to complete its grantmaking by 2016 and close its doors by 2020 – the largest foundation ever to spend out. Caroline Hartnell talked to Atlantic president and…
Author: Alliance magazine
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'There's No Substitute for Clarity': Atlantic’s CEO Shares Lessons Learned Managing a Global Foundation
In this first episode of a new Australian podcast series, “How I Did It,” Atlantic President and CEO Christopher G. Oechsli shares management lessons learned during his time at the foundation, as well as earlier in his career when he worked for the investment company…
Author: Koda Capital
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Caring for Complex Patients is No Easy Task
By Jeffrey Brenner, M.D. Jeffrey Brenner, M.D., Executive Director of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers. Photo: McKnight’s Long-Term Care News I’m a family physician working in Camden, NJ — one of America’s poorest cities. For the last 13 years, I’ve been building a citywide…
Author: McKnight's Long-Term Care News
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Foundation Chiefs Spar on Question of Giving in Perpetuity
Emmett Carson, CEO of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, says foundations that aim to operate indefinitely can peacefully coexist with those that decide to spend all their assets in set period of time. Photo: Edward Caldwell By Megan O’Neil PALO ALTO, CALIF.—Defenders of foundations created to…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Retaining an Engaged Staff to the End
This post by Maria Pignataro Nielsen, Atlantic’s Chief Human Resources Officer, is part of GrantCraft’s “Making Change by Spending Down” series. Although Atlantic is often referred to as a “spend down” foundation, we think of ourselves as a limited life foundation, with our final years…
Author: GrantCraft
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Vietnam gets to grips with its business schools
By William Barnes Nguyen Thuy Tinh Ca says that when you have spent three years at a Vietnamese university you will know what boredom is. “It was a struggle not to fall asleep in class,” says the young woman who is now fizzing with entrepreneurial…
Author: Financial Times
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Rethinking Discipline
Kenneth Thomas, a 7th grader, ponders a lesson in his PRIDE 101 class at Haut Gap Middle School. As part of the school’s approach to addressing behavior, all students take a course in how to be a Haut Gap student. —Amelia Phillips Hale for Education…
Author: Education Week
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LA Unified to Collect Suspension Data Down to Classroom, Teacher Level
By Tami Abdollah L.A. Unified plans to begin collecting data on suspension rates at the individual classroom and teacher level starting this summer as part of its effort to improve its schools, a district official said today. “It starts at the classroom level,” said Isabel…
Author: KPCC
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Found: Older Volunteers to Fill Labor Shortage
This New York Times article features two Atlantic ageing programme grantees — Civic Ventures and the Rose Community Foundation. Both organisations engage older people in encore careers and volunteer positions that combine personal meaning and social impact to solve society’s greatest problems. The Rose Community Foundation received a re-grant…
Author: The New York Times
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Maria Pignataro Nielsen Appointed Human Resources Director at The Atlantic Philanthropies
Maria Pignataro Nielsen has been appointed Director of Human Resources at The Atlantic Philanthropies, effective immediately, President and CEO Gara LaMarche announced today. Nielsen will be responsible for developing and executing global HR strategies and programs that will enhance the foundation’s organizational performance while supporting…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies