Results List
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Long Fought Human Rights Victories Show the Importance of Staying the Course
Source: Gara LaMarche
A core premise of Atlantic’s approach to philanthropy, underlying our plan to spend the foundation’s assets by the end of this decade, is that addressing issues now can prevent them from becoming larger, more serious challenges later. But investing now doesn’t always mean that change…
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Health reform challenge in Australia: Repairing the fundamentals and building on stronger foundations
Source: Prime Minister of Australia
Australia’s Prime Minister praises biomedical research at the University of Queensland as an example of what can be achieved when government, universities and philanthropy work together in partnership.It is good to be back home; it's good to be back in Brisbane; good to be back…
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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…
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Dropout prevention worthy investment
Source: San Antonio Express-News
If the high school dropout rate continues at current levels, the state will be in serious trouble in the not so distant future as an uneducated workforce grows. The estimated number of Texas students at risk of not graduating exceeds two million. Those two million…
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Starting Over, With a Second Career Goal of Changing Society
By Steve Lohr Harvard kicked off a small but ambitious experiment this week that it hopes will become a new “third stage” of university education. For the student-fellows in the program, most in their 50s and early 60s, the goal is a second-act career in…
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CMAG chooses HCAN ad for Ad of the Week
Source: TNS Media Intelligence/CMAG
View the ad video here Campaign Media Analysis Group (CMAG), a division of TNS Media Intelligence, has chosen the most recent HCAN ad as their "Ad of the Week" on their political ad blog for the week of 24 November, 2008. This ad is currently…
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Center for Community Change Wins Leadership Award
Source: Center for Community Change
Dear Friends and Colleagues: As the chair of the Board of Directors of the Center for Community Change, I'm very proud of the investment the organization is making in leadership development in the nonprofit sector. Cultivating potential leaders who are passionate about social justice is…
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Atlantic Philanthropies well placed to face recession
Source: UK Fundraising
Atlantic Philanthropies' endowment, which funds many projects in Ireland, will be worth less due to the stock market meltdown but will not be as badly affected as other foundations, according Atlantic's chief executive, Gara LaMarche. While no one planned for the magnitude of the stock…
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After School Programme Funding Soars Since Launch of Public-Private Initiative in New York City
Ten years after the launch of a programme to encourage the creation of sustainable public funding streams for after-school programmes, every level of government has dramatically increased public funding for comprehensive after-school programmes in New York City, as examined in this report by the Institute…
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U.S. Senate Creates Philanthropy Caucus
Source: Chronicle of Philanthropy
by Suzanne Perry Two U.S. senators have created a Senate Philanthropy Caucus to look at ways to help foundations and charities. Sens. Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York, and Richard Burr, Republican of North Carolina, sent a letter to colleagues in late July asking them…
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