Results List
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National Dementia Strategy to Focus on Community Care and Stigma
Source: Irish Times
Mary Sutton from Atlantic Philanthropies and Taoiseach Enda Kenny at the launch of the Irish National Dementia Strategy at Government Buildings. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/CollinsBy Mark HillardTaoiseach Enda Kenny has unveiled a €27.5 million national dementia strategy that will focus on shattering the stigma of the diesase and…
Resource type: News
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Foundation Center Launches Tool to Visualize Impact of Philanthropy
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
The New York City-based Foundation Center has announced the launch of a data visualization tool to help grantmakers, policy makers, researchers, and others better understand the impact of philanthropy around the world. Philanthropy In/Sight allows registered users to create customized Google maps to explore giving patterns,…
Resource type: News
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Grant to help center expand program to the national level
Source: Boston College Heights
Original Source By: Ashley Schneider The Atlantic Philanthropies awarded a $3.5 million grant to Kevin Mahoney, a professor in the graduate school of social work and director of the Center for the Study of Home and Community Life (CSHCL), to help the center's Cash & Counseling Program…
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Atlantic Philanthropies Awards Foundations' Center for Afterschool Education
Source: Center for Afterschool Education
The Center for Afterschool Education Receives $2.3 Million Grant to Support Professional Development of More Than 5,000 Staff and Leaders of Out-of-School Time Programs. Moorestown, NJ --The Center for Afterschool Education at Foundations Inc., an organization that offers professional development, technical assistance, tools and publications…
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The Center for After-School Excellence Graduates First Class of After-School Educators
Source: The Center for After-School Excellence
Original Source The after-school field in New York took an important step toward boosting the success of kids who attend after-school and summer programs citywide. In a first for New York City, 72 after-school educators who work with kids in all five boroughs studied this…
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First Year of Center for Afterschool Excellence Program a Success, Report Finds
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
The first year of the Center for After-School Excellence's certificate program saw a high level of participant satisfaction and a relatively high level of completion, a new report from Policy Studies Associates finds.Launched in 2007, the one-year program enables staff who serve New York City…
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Major Grant Expands Center for the Study of Inequality
Source: Cornell Chronicle
A recent, $10 million grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies to Cornell’s Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) will support new research and educational opportunities focused on the causes and consequences of inequality.
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Organizations Provide $8.7 Million to Launch a National Center to Improve Care for Complex Patients
Source: Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers
CAMDEN, N.J.—The Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers announced plans to establish a national center to improve care for high-need patients who experience poor outcomes despite extreme patterns of hospitalizations or emergency care. Inefficient and ineffective care of these patients has been identified as a driver…
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The Irish National Dementia Strategy
Source: Department of Health Ireland
Dementia affects about 50,000 people in Ireland today and that number is expected to triple by 2041. For the first time, the Republic of Ireland has published a centralised and coordinated national strategy aimed at improving the lives of people living with dementia. The strategy's…
Resource type: Research Report
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Government warned to consult older people on positive ageing strategy
by EITHNE DONNELLAN THE GOVERNMENT has been warned that if it fails to consult older people on the development of a proposed national positive ageing strategy that it could suffer the consequences in next year's local elections. The warning came yesterday from the Older and…
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