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Way to Grow
Charities use business practices to rapidly expand their programs Harlem Children’s Zone, in New York City, works with 10,000 children a year, up from just 1,500 in 1990 – and it plans to grow by another 50 percent in the next four years. Teach for…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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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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SOUTH AFRICA: Poor marks for education
CAPE TOWN, 11 May 2011 (IRIN) – Instead of providing much needed opportunities, South Africa’s ailing education system is keeping children from poor households at the back of the job queue and locking families into poverty for another generation. By the age of eight, school…
Author: IRIN News
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Parenting course 'lessens' depression
Archways and the Incredible Years programme are Atlantic grantees via the Clondalkin Partnership. by SYLVIA THOMPSON PARENTS WERE less critical and more confident in dealing with their children after taking part in a parenting programme, a new study has found. Parents who participated in the…
Author: Irish Times
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Students' well-being tracked to improve lives
by Nanette Asimov Fewer kids in Napa County visit the dentist regularly than kids in other California counties. More San Francisco children teeter on the brink of depression than other children do. And for some reason, fewer parents in Alameda, Contra Costa and Santa Clara…
Author: The San Francisco Chronicle (California)
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Awards $1.5 Million Grant to ASAS
Original Source Los Angeles, CA — Today After-School All-Stars (ASAS — www.afterschoolallstars.org), a leader among U.S. after-school programming providers, announced a two-year, $1.5 million grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies to support high-quality, national after-school programming for at-risk youth. ASAS was founded by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger…
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A Look at Race, Incarceration, and American Values
Original Source by Marian Wright Edelman Glenn Loury, a professor in the Department of Economics at Brown University, has long been one of the nation’s most outspoken Black intellectuals. For many years he was a leading conservative voice on topics like affirmative action, and whenever…
Author: The Huffington Post
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Wall Street's Tremors Leave Harlem Shaken
by TIMOTHY WILLIAMS Before its economic turnaround in recent years, Harlem was a case study in disinvestment. Banks were unwilling to make mortgage loans or to open branches, national chain stores could not be lured uptown, city services lagged and the neighborhood became economically isolated…
Author: The New York Times
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Funding pre-K and fighting crime
by FRAN WOOD If you’re among the considerable number of New Jerseyans who question the value of taxpayer-funded preschool education, you may want to take note of some astonishing statistics reported in Trenton yesterday. Fight Crime; Invest in Kids, a national nonprofit anti-crime organization of…
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Letters to the Editor re: "Protect Our Kids from Preschool" (WSJ)
Original Article Source Joint Pre-K Now/Pew letter to the editor, submitted but not yet published Protect our kids from preschool (August 22, 2008) misrepresents decades of research on the lasting benefits of quality pre-k-research that has been accepted by academics and policy makers across the…
Author: Wall Street Journal
