Results List
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Philanthropy on Trial – Prosecution’s Opening Statement by Gara LaMarche
Charged with not fulfilling its mission of advancing the public good, philanthropy was put on trial at the April 2011 Council on Foundations’ conference. Former Atlantic Philanthropies President and CEO Gara LaMarche served as the prosecution, and Ralph R. Smith, Executive Vice President of the…
Resource type: Video
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Reflections from South Africa: A Conversation with Gara LaMarche and Jack Rosenthal
In this video, former Atlantic Philanthropies President and CEO Gara LaMarche and Senior Fellow Jack Rosenthal share impressions from their March 2011 trip to South Africa, including the need to narrow the gap between the promise and practice of South Africa’s constitution, unity, and their…
Resource type: Video
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GRITtv – Gara LaMarche: Right Has More Compelling Narrative
Gara LaMarche says that one of the reasons the Left has lost is that the Right argues from larger moral narratives. >Watch the video >Watch the full interview – Gara La Marche on Creating Progressive Narratives
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GRITtv – Gara LaMarche on Creating Progressive Narratives
The times are difficult and the challenges are great. But a sober analysis of our predicament suggests that there are accomplishments to be celebrated and lessons to be learned from the intense period of history we have just lived through that can inform a comeback…
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Highlight on Gara LaMarche, Recipient of the 2010 Hubert H. Humphrey Civil and Human Rights Award
On 12 May 2010, Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, was honoured with the 2010 Hubert H. Humphrey Civil and Human Rights Award at the annual Leadership Conference in Washington, DC.
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Gara LaMarche – Grant Makers Urged to Take An Activist Role
At the Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy conference in Denver on April 25, 2010, Gara LaMarche urged young grantmakers to use their voice to advocate on behalf of the groups they support and issues they care about.
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Gara LaMarche’s Speech at MIT’s Starr Forum – Reclaiming the Moral Life of Philanthropy
27 September 2010 Has philanthropy lost “moral clarity,” growing more concerned with the fix, the intervention, than about reasons for doing or caring about what is right? In a speech given on 27 September 2010 at the Starr Forum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for…
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Moyers, LaMarche, Bhargava: Towards Progressive Reform
Bill Moyers Interviews Gara LaMarche and Deepak Bhargava: Working Towards Progressive Reform and Social Justice 19 October 2010 Nearly twenty-one months after the inauguration of Barack Obama, the social justice movement – and its funders – are at a crossroads. Is there still momentum for progressive…
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Social Justice and the Life Course
Source: Gara LaMarche
Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, addressed the National University of Ireland-Galway’s Life Course Institute Seminar. He commented that Life Course projects are important because they are not just about “treating” disadvantage in old age or in youth, but are about breaking…
Resource type: Speech
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The Role of Foundations in Immigrant Rights
Source: Gara LaMarche
The rights of immigrants must be protected and foundations can use their unique strengths to play a leading role such as funding public education and civic engagement, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech at the European Foundation Centre Meeting…
Resource type: Speech