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Audacious Philanthropy
Image: Christopher Corr / Getty Images By Susan Wolf Ditkoff and Abe Grindle Private philanthropists have helped propel some of the most important social-impact success stories of the past century: Virtually eradicating polio globally. Providing free and reduced-price lunches for all needy schoolchildren in the United…
Author: Harvard Business Review
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Atlantic Mourns the Death of Jack Rosenthal, New York Times Editor and Former Atlantic Senior Fellow
Atlantic mourns the death of Jack Rosenthal, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with The New York Times, and who later served as a Senior Fellow for Atlantic. In addition to his formal roles at Atlantic, Rosenthal is remembered as a mentor and friend. Over the course of his…
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A Laughing Matter: SF Comedian Looks to Tell the Stories of Dementia Patients, Caregivers
Josh Kornbluth is Among the Global Brain Health Institute’s 32 Inaugural Atlantic Fellows Artist Josh Kornbluth (left), a comedic autobiographical monologist, participates in a clinicopathological section with Lea T. Grinberg, MD, PhD, as part of his fellowship at the Global Brain Health Institute. Photo by…
Author: University of California San Francisco
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Congratulations to Winners of the Inaugural Gerald Kraak Award
Gerald Kraak was a Program Executive for Atlantic’s Reconciliation & Human Rights Program in South Africa, and an award-winning author and lifelong activist for human rights. We are pleased this award has been set up in his name. The Other Foundation and the Jacana Literary Foundation, are…
Author: The Other Foundation
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€6.6bn Later ... Atlantic Philanthropies Holds Final Irish Board Meeting
Taoiseach praises organisation for its contribution to NI peace, education, healthcare By Colm Keena A file image of Charles F. ‘Chuck’ Feeney, founder of Atlantic Philanthropies, before he was conferred an Honorary Degree jointly by the Universities of Ireland North and South at a ceremony in…
Author: The Irish Times
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Atlantic Mourns the Death of Patrick Johnston, Dynamic Leader of Queen's University Belfast
Professor Patrick (Paddy) Johnston was a dynamic leader of Queen’s University Belfast and a leading oncologist. He was deeply and personally committed to raising a new generation of thinkers, researchers and leaders. Atlantic Founder Chuck Feeney, and all of us at the foundation who knew…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Redesigning Hospitals, With Grieving Family Members in Mind
Awaiting devastating news of a loved one in a hospital is harrowing for family members. The Design & Dignity Programme is creating comfortable, homey spaces in the wards to soften the experience. In 2011, the Mater Hospital received a grant to physically enhance the spaces…
Author: Fast Company
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The Steady Decline of America’s Death Rows
By Mark Berman When the state of Arkansas announced plans to carry out eight executions in an 11-day period in April, it drew intense international scrutiny that flared until well after the final lethal injection in the series at the end of the month. In…
Author: The Washington Post
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Businessman Mervyn McCall Explains Why He Has Set Up a £500,000 Philanthropy Fund
By Mervyn McCall Inspired by philanthropists like Chuck Feeney, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, I had been thinking for some time about the type of charitable contribution I would like to make in Northern Ireland. In the end I was simply driven by the desire…
Author: The Irish News
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From Alpha to Omega: Choices and Challenges of Limited Life Philanthropy
By Joanne Florino Many thanks to the Center for Effective Philanthropy for a thoughtfully structured and informative research report on the why and how of limited life foundations. Any foundation donor and/or board considering an option other than perpetuity will be well served by a…
Author: The Center for Effective Philanthropy
