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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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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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Discovering Second Acts In Sustained Working Lives
Source: Discovering Second Acts In Sustained Working Lives
By MARCI ALBOHER Marc Freedman has become the voice of aging baby boomers who are eschewing retirement for what he calls "encore careers," long periods of meaningful and sustaining work later in life. Mr. Freedman, who was one of the founders of Experience Corps, now…
Resource type: News
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New Leader of a Big Foundation Brings His Activist Vision to the Job
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Gara LaMarche, a lifelong activist who has worked on behalf of death-row inmates, gay marriage rights, and democracy in the developing world, will bring his activist's sense to his new job as chief executive of Atlantic Philanthropies, according to the Financial Times. Mr. LaMarche's biggest…
Resource type: News
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Billionaire Feeney is Dunphy guest
Source: RTE Radio 1
Eamon's guest is the Irish-American philanthropist Chuck Feeney. In 1984 the billionaire decided to set up a foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies, to direct funds anonymously to worthy causes, and devote the remainder of his life to giving away his money. The foundation has over the past…
Resource type: News
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FARC fallout: Billionaire saddened over cutting anti-corruption funding
Source: Irish Examiner
THE billionaire backer of an Irish anti-corruption office has admitted he was sad to pull its funding when it got caught up in a controversy surrounding alleged IRA training for Colombian guerrillas. In a rare interview to be broadcast today, Irish-American philanthropist Chuck Feeney, 77,…
Resource type: News
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Teaching Kids Whole-Life Skills
Source: Washington Post
At the Arts and Technology Academy in Northeast, sex education is taking a distinctly different tack. Moving far beyond anatomy, educators at the charter school are using what they call an "above the waist" approach to help prevent teen pregnancy. Teacher Willa Reinhard walks around…
Resource type: News
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Encore --- In Search of a Purpose: Marc Freedman thinks 'encore careers' can help baby boomers -- and the country
Source: Wall Street Journal
With retirement for many Americans now expected to stretch out 20 or 30 years, the question arises: How best to fill that time? Perhaps the answer is an "encore career." That's the hope of Marc Freedman, founder and chief executive officer of Civic Ventures, a…
Resource type: News
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How Long Should Gifts Just Grow?
Source: New York Times
As nonprofit institutions have seen donations and investments grow spectacularly in recent years, the urge to keep the money rolling in is being supplemented by a new pressure: make it flow out faster. Politicians, consultants, watchdog groups and even some philanthropists say that foundations, universities,…
Resource type: News