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Jennifer Wilson, Bermuda’s Nurse of the Year for 2008, spends her days driving the Azmobile from one island school to another. She coordinates an island-wide asthma education programme for Open Airways, an Atlantic-supported organisation that has helped cut hospital admissions for asthma sufferers by nearly…

I don’t usually use this space for organisational announcements, but we have recently made three new appointments to Atlantic’s senior staff, who together bring enormous strengths to our mission and each of whom illustrates something important about where the foundation is going in its final…

Original Source University of the Witwatersrand is an Atlantic grantee. by Thabo Mohlala JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - As student anger erupted at Wits University this week over fee increases, Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande refused to be drawn on whether he will pump up subsidies…

Original Source The Bridgespan Group and Teach for America are Atlantic grantees. By John RiceSpecial to CNN Editor's note: John Rice is founder and CEO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a New York-based national nonprofit organization seeking to develop "the next generation of African…

Generous Gen-Xers are putting their own spin on charitable giving, combining their desire to achieve with their desire to do good. Original Source By SUZANNE MCGEE THE STORY IN PHILANTHROPY THIS HOLIDAY SEASON is becoming all too familiar. Individuals, foundations and corporations are all scaling…

A UNIVERSITY of Cape Town (UCT) training programme for senior public health sector officials had received a R16m shot in the arm from an international funding body, the university said yesterday. International research showed health systems across the globe lacked management capacity, especially in the…

On Wednesday, May 12th, from 4:00 – 6:00 PM, the Center for Nonprofit Strategy and Management at Baruch College, in collaboration with Philanthropy New York, will present “Recovery and Reconstruction in Haiti: The Role of U.S. Philanthropy and Local Groups,” a program focusing on the…

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…

  WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 11, 2019) – The George Washington University (GW) today announced the renaming of the GW Health Workforce Institute to the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity. The action was taken to honor Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, a professor of health policy and management…

Embed from Getty Images On Monday, October 17th, a new round of changes in U.S.-Cuba policy went into effect. And while the removal of restrictions on bringing back rum and cigars grabbed mostheadlines, other embargo-easing measures will be more significant. The regulatory amendments, announced by…