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Harlem Children’s Zone and Teach for America are Atlantic grantees, and Bonnie CLAC is an Atlantic grantee via the Purpose Prize. by Foon Rhee President Obama this afternoon praised a New Hampshire nonprofit that helps poor people buy fuel-efficient reliable cars in a White House event designed to highlight innovative programs…

by ELLA SMOOK Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu has warned that South Africa remains perched on a powder keg of inequality as a result of the gap between rich and poor. Delivering the keynote |address at the first international Chief of Chaplains Conference taking place in…

Philanthropy should step up and seize the unprecedented opportunities created by the election of President Obama, said Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, in this speech at the Annual Meeting of Southern California Grantmakers in Los Angeles. When the terrific Sushma Raman –…

Professionals Mentoring Middle-Grades Students Boston Not long ago, an 8th grader from a hardscrabble neighborhood in this city decided on an ambitious career path: She would become a doctor. Many adults encouraged her, but when she spoke with a knowledgeable source, a Harvard University medical…

South Africa's model of health care financing is "primitive" and will be abandoned, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said. "The present system of health care financing can no longer be allowed to go on, because it is simply unsustainable," Motsoaledi said during his budget vote speech…

Gara LaMarche delivers the Keynote Address at the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York Symposium: Baruch College School of Public Affairs. It’s a little odd that I should be standing here this morning to share some thoughts about the role of evaluation in foundations…