Results List
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Strategies for Implementing School-Based Services
Source: Child Trends
Top practitioners and policymakers from New Mexico share what they learned in implementing school-based health services and extended learning opportunities in this case study prepared by Child Trends. Elev8 New Mexico is an initiative of the Children & Youth Programme of The Atlantic Philanthropies, and…
Resource type: Research Report
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Why on Earth Would a Foundation Try to Get Rid of All of Its Money?
The reasons behind The Atlantic Philanthropies’ decision to spend all of its endowment are outlined in this 2009 speech by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Annual Meeting of Delaware Valley Grantmakers in Philadelphia. My talk this afternoon poses the question, which I…
Resource type: Speech
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Foundations help nonprofits hurt in Madoff affair
Source: Associated Press
By RACHEL BECK NEW YORK (AP) - Nonprofits that are struggling because their donors lost money with Bernard Madoff are getting a bailout -- but not from the government. Richer foundations are stepping in to help. Human Rights Watch, The Center for Constitutional Rights and others are…
Resource type: News
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The Atlantic Philanthropies, Open Society Institute and MoveOn.org Respond to Madoff Scandal with Matching Program
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Many groups and organizations working for social change and human rights have been hit hard by the Bernie Madoff scandal. Many of these groups will have to shut down programs, lay off staff or close their doors if they are unable to replace the funding…
Resource type: News
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Will the Financial Crisis Affect Giving?
Source: Balkan Insight
By David Labrador in Pristina Foundations that support important programmes in the Balkans are suffering from the financial crisis in a way that makes their continued giving much more difficult. Much of the money that helps to develop the Balkans comes from private foundations that…
Resource type: News
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Baltimore after-school center for at-risk youth plans to expand
Source: Baltimore Examiner
Original Source By Carolyn Peirce An after-school center for at-risk youth in Baltimore hopes to reduce the number of high school dropouts through a $2 million grant to build more centers and improve programs providing students with technology training and support with their academics. The…
Resource type: News
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Change Comes to Washington: Will it Come to Philanthropy, Too?
Philanthropy should step up and seize the unprecedented opportunities created by the election of President Obama, said Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, in this speech at the Annual Meeting of Southern California Grantmakers in Los Angeles. When the terrific Sushma Raman –…
Resource type: Speech
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Communities In Schools to Receive Major Grant From the Corporation for National and Community Service
Source: Communities In Schools (Release)
Investment Will be Used to Improve the Lives of Young People Nationwide ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Communities In Schools, the nation's largest dropout prevention organization, is proud to announce that it is one of only three national organizations to receive a competitive grant…
Resource type: News
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The Global Financial Crisis and Philanthropy: Altering Course in a Perfect Storm
Source: Gara LaMarche
The roots of the global financial crisis, and the paths out of it, are matters for debate. But what no one disputes is that the landscape in which foundations like Atlantic are working has been dramatically altered, and likely will be for some time to…
Resource type: News
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Taking Account of Race as a Philanthropic Imperative
Foundations must take account of race in all of their work in order to get beyond racism, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies President and CEO, in this speech at the Waldemar Nielsen Issue Forums in Philanthropy, Georgetown Public Policy Institute in Washington. You might…
Resource type: Speech