Results List
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Philanthropy can be made to measure
Source: Financial Times
By Gara LaMarche The philanthropic world, poked and prodded by a wave of new donors fresh from success in the business world, is grappling with the issue of evaluation. How do we know that grants or, as they are now often called, reflecting the influence…
Resource type: News
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Integrated Education: Essential to a Shared Future in Northern Ireland
Source: Gara LaMarche
Last week in Belfast, on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Good Friday peace agreement, I sat down with Tina Merron and Sam Fitzsimmons, who are among the leaders of a bold effort to ensure that Catholics and Protestants in this long-contested region…
Resource type: News
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Diversity in Philanthropy
Source: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
This report by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors looks at how philanthropy’s approach to diversity has evolved and provides data on the successes of major strategies that have been piloted. Original Source Philanthropy in a Changing Society is a three-part report published by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, a New…
Resource type: Research Report
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Harlem to Antarctica for Science, and Pupils
Source: The New York Times
By SARA RIMER The pitch: Eight weeks in Antarctica. Groundbreaking research into the climate before the Ice Age. Glaciers. Volcanoes. Adorable penguins. The details: Camping on the sea ice in unheated tents, in 20-below-zero temperatures. Blinding whiteouts. The bathroom? A toilet seat over a hole…
Resource type: News
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$18 Million Grant to Boost Middle Schools
Source: Chicago Public Radio
Today, a New York-based foundation will award $18 million to five Chicago public schools. The grant is to help middle school students. Integrated Services in Schools is the new initiative that pairs schools with local community groups. Through this four-year grant, schools will get amenities…
Resource type: News
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Researchers study KIPP's impact
Source: Austin Weekly News
By Robert Felton KIPP charter schools, a national network of schools targeting low-income, minority areas, will be the focus of a research study to evaluate its impact on students. KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) was founded in 1994 to serve predominantly black and Hispanic communities.…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic Philanthropies Hires New Children and Youth Director
Source: YouthToday
Donna Lawrence will lead foundation's Disadvantaged Children & Youth programby John KellyThe Atlantic Philanthropies, an international grant maker with assets of $3.3 billion, has hired Donna Lawrence to oversee its disadvantaged children and youth program, which last year made 50 grants totaling $107 million to…
Resource type: News
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Statue of liberty?
Source: The Guardian
By Juliet Lyon It took the US prison population less than 40 years to rise from 300,000 in 1972 to 2.3 million people. America has become the undisputed global leader in the rate at which it imprisons its citizens, easily outdistancing other high incarcerators such…
Resource type: News
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There Are No Pockets In A Shroud
Source: The Chattanoogan
By Roy Exum If you were to go to Da Nang General Hospital in Vietnam today, you would be startled over the fact it is painted green a brilliant shamrock green to be more precise in a veiled effort to thank the Irish-American who built…
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An elusive billionaire gives away his good fortune
Source: Los Angeles Times
Chuck Feeney, who nudges others to give while living, plans to donate $8 billion by 2016. Just don't put his name on anything. By Margot Roosevelt One by one, speakers rose to toast the elderly gent with baggy pants and a shy, gaptoothed smile. "Of…
Resource type: News