Results List
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Leading-edge approach will improve quality of life for people with dementia in Northern Ireland
A brand new service for people living with dementia, believed to be the first of its kind in Europe, has been launched in Belfast. The Brain Bus, which has been developed by Atlantic grantee Fold Housing Association, is a revolutionary mobile therapy unit for people…
Author: Fold Housing Association
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US billionaires pledge 50% of their wealth to charity
Thirty-eight US billionaires have pledged at least 50% of their wealth to charity through a campaign started by investor Warren Buffet and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. They include Mayor Michael Bloomberg, CNN founder Ted Turner and entertainment executive Barry Diller. “The Giving Pledge” lists all…
Author: BBC News
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Marchers hit streets calling on Obama to act immediately on federal immigration reform
By Sophia Tareen.CHICAGO (AP) — Protesters nationwide vented their anger over a new Arizona law to crack down on illegal immigrants by calling on President Barack Obama to immediately take up their cause for federal immigration reform.From Los Angeles to Washington D.C., activists, families, students…
Author: The LA Times
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Editorial: Stopping Arizona
A fight is brewing over Arizona’s new law that turns all of the state’s Latinos, even legal immigrants and citizens, into criminal suspects. And this is not a local fight. The poison is spreading; there is talk in Texas of passing a version of the…
Author: The New York Times
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Health reform challenge in Australia: Repairing the fundamentals and building on stronger foundations
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…
Author: Prime Minister of Australia
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200,000 Activists Demand Immigration Reform
On Sunday March 21st, a number of Atlantic staff joined grantees and two hundred thousand diverse activists from across the country in a march in Washington D.C. to demand that immigration reform be on President Obama’s agenda this year. Like the advocates we support, we…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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House Health Care Vote Transforms the Political Landscape
We wake up this morning surrounded by a new political world. The House vote approving health care reform was without doubt the most significant congressional vote in the last four decades. That’s because it completely transformed the American political landscape. It certainly changed America’s health…
Author: The Huffington Post
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A Growing Drumbeat from Activists Energizes Drive for Urgent Immigration Reform
This Sunday, I will join 100,000 other supporters of comprehensive immigration reform in the United States – a cause to which Atlantic has been deeply committed since 2004 – in a march on Washington to demand that the U.S. Congress act this year. I hope…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Viet Nam Journal: Over 11 Years, Atlantic Grants Help Spur a Country’s Transformation in Health
Several of the staff of the Hue Central Hospital were kind enough to come to work last Sunday morning to give my Atlantic colleagues and me a tour of what has become a world-class facility in the ten years since our Founding Chairman, Chuck Feeney,…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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As the Year Turns and Always, It Is Stories That Move Us and Lead Us to Action
My last few year-end columns have focused on the stories of those Atlantic is privileged to work with around the world because, as always, that is where the emphasis must be. It is why we do this work and what keeps us going. This year,…
Author: Gara LaMarche