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High Impact Strategies for Education Philanthropy
Aaron Dorfman, executive director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) talks about his organisation's new report on high impact strategies for education philanthropy. The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) is an Atlantic grantee. Read the Report View Original Source
Resource type: Video
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Confronting Systemic Inequity in Education: High Impact Strategies for Philanthropy
Source: National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
This report looks at how philanthropy can be more effective at helping to reform and improve our nation’s school systems. Every year, foundations provide billions in grants for education. Yet, our education system is in crisis: American schoolchildren – especially those from vulnerable communities - remain trapped in…
Resource type: Research Report
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Commencement at the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools
Gara LaMarche, Atlantic's President and CEO addressed the 2010 graduating class at the Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools in Haley Farm, Knoxville, Tennessee. I want to start out by saying that I have no recollection of the commencement address when I graduated from St. Bernard’s…
Resource type: Speech
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When charity balls were rich with giving
Source: Irish Times
By Ronan McGreevy. The party’s over for the charity ball scene, which has been severely curtailed by the downturn IT WAS A gala ball that became the last waltz for the Celtic Tiger. The effects of the credit crunch, which have had devastating implications for…
Resource type: News
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Learning to Give
Two articles from the Irish press describe modern challenges to Philanthropy, and the innovations of Atlantic's founder, Chuck Feeney.
Resource type: News
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'Giving while living' alters inheritances
Source: USA Today
AARP and the Foundation Center are Atlantic grantees. By Mindy Fetterman You used to have to wait for a loved one to die before you found out how much you were going to inherit — if you were going to inherit at all. No more.…
Resource type: News
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Cover: The 25 Best Givers
Source: Barron's
With money tight, top philanthropists insist on more bang for the buck. Meet the 25 most effective givers. The KIPP Foundation is an Atlantic grantee. By Suzanne McGee. THE NAME OF THE GAME IN PHILANTHROPY this year is to make your dollars go far --…
Resource type: News
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$10-Million Obama Proposal Hopes to Export Success of Harlem Program
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Harlem Children's Zone is an Atlantic grantee. By Suzanne Perry. Harlem Children's Zone is one of the most lauded — and emulated — charities in the country. Nonprofit groups and government agencies regularly send emissaries to Harlem to study the organization's acclaimed poverty-fighting strategy, which…
Resource type: News
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Foundation recovery likely slow
Source: Philanthropy Journal
Original Source The Foundation Center and the Council on Foundations are Atlantic grantees. by Ret Boney The injuries foundations sustained during the market downturns were severe, and it likely will be years before foundation giving is back on track, but funders have risen to the…
Resource type: News
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Couple having a blast "giving while living"
Source: Cleveland Jewish News
Cornell University is an Atlantic grantee. By ARLENE FINE, Senior Staff Reporter Jane and Lee Seidman made headlines last week for pledging $6 million to Cleveland Clinic’s Hillcrest Hospital to help fund a new 72-bed patient tower at the Mayfield Heights hospital. This donation is…
Resource type: News