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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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Talent in Philanthropy
Newspaper reporters, baseball pitching scouts, art dealers and movie studio casting agents all provide models for philanthropy to follow in finding and cultivating talented programme officers, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech to the Foundation Impact Research Group, Terry…
Resource type: Speech
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Philanthropy for social change: a response to Michael Edwards
Source: OpenDemocracy
By Gara LaMarche Michael Edwards, in his openDemocracy essay " Philanthrocapitalism: after the goldrush" (20 March 2008), raises an important and necessary voice of concern about trends in philanthropy that have received too little scrutiny to date - either because, as is often the case…
Resource type: News
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OASIS Receives $2.5 Million from The Atlantic Philanthropies To Expand
Source: PNN Online
The OASIS Institute has received a $2.5 million grant - its largest ever - to fund a five-year plan to significantly grow its services to the nation's dramatically expanding aging population. The grant is from The Atlantic Philanthropies of New York, a leader in initiatives…
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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Making Technology Meaningful
Source: Youth Today
After-school programs learn how to make kids conversant in the language of the digital age. Original Source by Deborah Huso OK, so you have computers in your after-school program. Now, what do the kids do with them? If they do some Web research and play…
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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Mathematica to Evaluate KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program)
Source: Mathematica
PRINCETON, N.J. (March 13, 2008)-Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., has been awarded a contract of approximately $4 million to evaluate the impact of KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program).KIPP is a national network of free, open-enrollment, college preparatory public schools in underserved communities throughout the United States.…
Resource type: News
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12 People Who Are Changing Your Retirement
Source: Wall Street Journal
Joseph Coughlin describes his work as "trying to get people to 'age cool.' " More specifically, as director of AgeLab, a research program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is pushing advances in transportation, health care and housing off drawing boards and into older…
Resource type: News
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Springfield greatly expands summer school
Source: The Republican
Springfield greatly expands summer school By MARLA A. GOLDBERG SPRINGFIELD - The School Committee has voted to substantially expand summer school for students finishing the fifth and eighth grades who fail Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System tests. The new program, to run eight hours a day…
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