Results List
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The Corner Office, Non-Profit Edition: A Practitioner’s Thoughts on Social Justice Management
Source: Gara LaMarche
Social justice management should be both more humane and tougher, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech at the Yale School of Management. I was at first flattered when I heard that students here at the Yale School of Management…
Resource type: Speech
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Atlas Learning Project: Resources for Funding Policy Change
Source: Center for Evaluation Innovation
Helping foundations be more aggressive and adaptive in their support for advocacy and policy change. Learn more > Foundations and advocates can no longer rely on the same old approaches to be effective when it comes to policy change. Progress is too vulnerable to not…
Resource type: Research Report
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No More Half Measures: Supporting Advocacy Capacity and Policy Campaigns
Source: Center for Evaluation Innovation
Five Ways Foundations Can Better Support Policy Campaigns and Build Lasting Advocacy Capacity This research brief explores the challenges facing grantmakers who fund policy campaigns without simultaneously considering how their funding choices affect long-term advocacy capacity. Failure to consider that risk leaves policy wins vulnerable and defenseless to oppositional interests, or leaves…
Resource type: Research Report
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Mining the Research
Source: Queen’s University Belfast
Many of the assumptions and stereotypes about older adults in Ireland have been based on questionable data and needed to be revisited, according to a study commissioned by The Atlantic Philanthropies. Queen’s University is an Atlantic grantee. Summary In Northern Ireland, many of the organisations…
Resource type: Research Report
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Expanding Social Security Benefits for Financially Vulnerable Populations
Source: Center for Community Change and Older Women's Economic Security Task Force
Social Security is critical to the economic security of older Americans, especially to women, people of color, low-wage earners, and same-sex couples. This white paper from the Older Women’s Economic Security Task Force and the Center for Community Change outlines five key policy changes to…
Resource type: Research Report
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Developing and Implementing Dementia Policy in Ireland
Source: Centre for Economic and Social Research on Dementia, NUI Galway
This report is a follow up to Creating Excellence in Dementia Care (2012), which informed Ireland’s National Dementia Strategy. It reflects on progress since 2012 on various aspects of care for people with dementia in Ireland and internationally with a view to informing future developments in…
Resource type: Research Report
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The Atlantic Philanthropies-University of Queensland Vietnamese Scholarship Program 2000-2006: Assessing the Impact
Source: Carisgold Pty Limited
An evaluation of a program that enabled young Vietnamese professionals and university academics to attend the University of Queensland in Australia found that participants returned home better able to contribute to the social and economic development of their country. The evaluation investigated how the Vietnam…
Resource type: Evaluation
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Evaluation of a Programme to Help Parents of Teenagers
Source: Institute for Child Care Research, Queen’s University Belfast
Parenting teens can be tricky and confusing. One of the few rigorously-evaluated programmes to help parents tackle those challenges has demonstrated convincing evidence of its effectiveness, researchers reported. The programme — Odyssey, Parenting Your Teen — is a potential model for more countries than Northern Ireland, where…
Resource type: Research Report
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Not Fair Enough: Making the Case for the Reform of the Social Welfare Appeals System
Source: FLAC
The social welfare appeals system in the Republic of Ireland needs substantial reform in order to serve the growing number of people who seek state support in a fair and timely manner, according to this report by Free Legal Advice Centers (FLAC), an Atlantic grantee.…
Resource type: Research Report
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Social Justice and the Life Course
Source: Gara LaMarche
Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, addressed the National University of Ireland-Galway’s Life Course Institute Seminar. He commented that Life Course projects are important because they are not just about “treating” disadvantage in old age or in youth, but are about breaking…
Resource type: Speech