Results List
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Right to Care
Source: Flatbush Pictures
The documentary film Right to Care, featuring Caring Across Generations co-director Ai-jen Poo (pictured above), highlights both the important work being done by domestic workers in the United States and the challenges facing this growing workforce. Watch the 10-minute film to learn about the importance of care work, and…
Resource type: Video
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How Private Wealth Can Change the World
Source: By Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, delivered this speech at an international conference held by the Robert Bosch Stiftung in Berlin: The Era of Citizens – How Civil Society and Foundations are Shaping the Future. The conference was opened by German…
Resource type: Speech
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Delivering Quality Care to the Children of Viet Nam
The National Hospital of Pediatrics (NHP) is the anchor of paediatric medicine in Viet Nam. It is the preeminent specialty hospital that helps children with serious health problems in the northern and central regions. The hospital in Ha Noi is also the main teaching and…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Ensuring Human Rights Protections and Access to Justice
“I just kept fighting to be free. I knew I couldn’t give up because if I returned to Sierra Leone my life would be in danger.” That is how 25-year-old Badiatu Tunis, a Sierra Leone native residing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, describes being detained by the…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Embrace of a Social Justice Approach to Grantmaking
Source: Gara LaMarche
The story behind The Atlantic Philanthropies’ embrace of social justice is recounted in this speech by Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, at the Ford Foundation Convening on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace in February 2009 in Cairo, Egypt. It is bracing…
Resource type: Speech
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New Mexico ISS Convening Remarks
Source: Jackie Williams Kaye
Remarks of Jackie Williams Kaye, Strategic Learning & Evaluation Executive, The Atlantic Philanthropies, at the New Mexico Convening of Integrated Services in Schools (ISS). I am very happy to be here on behalf of Atlantic together with my colleagues Mini, Nicole and Alice. Alice Duff…
Resource type: Speech
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Confidence & Community: Tapping Into Latino Power
Source: Topos Partnership
Recognizing that Latino voter turnout is lower than population at large, the Civic Participation Action Fund (CPAF) commissioned Topos to conduct ethnographic research to uncover cultural understandings of voting and civic participation to develop strategies tailored to Latinos’ needs and concerns. Rather than apathy, Topos…
Resource type: Research Report
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Building a Field: The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Investment in Palliative Care
Source: Mary Rafferty and Anne Colgan
This study captures the impact and lessons of Atlantic’s €58 million investment to help build the field of palliative care. It offers insights into what it takes to develop a community of organizations and individuals working towards a common goal using a shared body of…
Resource type: Research Report
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The $3.4 Trillion Mistake: The Cost of Mass Incarceration and Criminalization
Source: Communities United, Make the Road New York and Padres & Jóvenes Unidos
This report details how criminal justice policies in the United States resulted in expenditures of $3.4 trillion over the last three decades that the authors say could have been better spent addressing the root causes of crime and to meet critical community needs. Researchers found that…
Resource type: Research Report
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Membership-Based Organizations in Constitutional Democracies: Lessons from the Treatment Action Campaign
Source: Barbara Klugman, in conversation with Treatment Action Campaign national and Eastern Cape office-bearers and staff
Anyone interested in learning about the power of grass roots activism will find valuable lessons in this report about the experiences of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), the South African activist group that forced the government to make antiretroviral treatment available for all HIV-positive citizens and…
Resource type: Research Report