Results List
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Defend the State Pension, Older & Bolder Campaign
Older & Bolder Premiers Online Campaign Film Made By Award-Winning Director to Help Defend The State Pension 21 October 2010 Alliance to undertake nationwide lobby and petition campaign over coming weeks Government should focus on reforming tax reliefs rather than further cutting the State Pension…
Resource type: Video
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US Human Rights Fund
The USHRF has helped build the capacity of social justice groups like the Border Network for Human Rights, to use a human rights framework in their advocacy and organising efforts across the country. USHRF makes grants in four priority areas: human rights training and education,…
Resource type: Video
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The Path to Marriage Equality in Ireland: A Case Study
Source: Susan Parker
This case study tells the story behind the campaign that resulted in Ireland becoming the first country in the world to approve marriage equality by popular vote. It describes the factors contributing to the May 2015 achievement, including how two competing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and…
Resource type: Case Study
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Evaluation of The Atlantic Philanthropies Migration Programme
Source: RAND Europe
Over the course of the 1990s and continuing through 2007, Ireland experienced a substantial increase in migration. The large influx of people from other countries seeking a better life placed pressures on the existing legislative framework that regulated the rights of migrants. It also put…
Resource type: Evaluation
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Atlantic Fellows
One of our final and biggest bets is the Atlantic Fellows® program, which will empower new generations of leaders to work together around the globe to advance fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies. Programs are focused on racial equity, social equity, brain health, global inequality and health equity. The…
Resource type: Featured Topic
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Welcome to the School of Resiliency
It’s a Thursday morning in mid- December and Betsye Steele, principal of Ralph J. Bunche High School, is holding her weekly new-student orientation session. She sits at the small table in her office talking with Antwon, the school’s newest student, and his grandfather. As they…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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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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Enriching a University to Strengthen Learning and Research
Students attend 2012 commencement ceremony. Photo: Cornell University The nearly $1 billion investment in Cornell University made by Atlantic and its Founding Chairman has enriched the experience of students and faculty on campus; strengthened its academics, research and athletics; and enabled the university to expand…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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The Best Place to Grow Old
The Great Northern Haven housing development is a project of the Netwell Centre at the Dundalk Institute of Technology, which is developing new ideas that enhance the quality of life and well-being of older people and those who care for them, through integrated community-oriented services,…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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What is EPIM?
Source: European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM)
To learn more about the current projects funded by EPIM, visit the EPIM website or download the 2012-2015 project descriptions booklet. European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM) is an Atlantic grantee through the Network of European Foundations for Innovative Cooperation.
Resource type: Video