Results List
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Atlantic in Northern Ireland
From 1991 through 2016, Atlantic invested $570 million in Northern Ireland to promote the peace process; reshape higher education; support cross-community primary and secondary schools; improve public services to tackle disadvantage; develop social policy based on evidence of need, and demonstrable effectiveness; and strengthen independent organizations…
Resource type: Featured Topic
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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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Say Hello to the Civic Participation Action Fund
Source: Civic Participation Action Fund
With important social justice movements around the nation gaining momentum, committed advocacy and voter engagement is critical. To continue Atlantic’s support for policy change in the United States beyond our limited life, Atlantic has established a new, independent Washington, D.C.-based organization, the Civic Participation Action Fund…
Resource type: Video
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Where I Am Going: A Campaign to Change the Conversation About Stop-and-Frisk
Source: Communities United for Police Reform
Communities United For Police Reform, an Atlantic grantee, recently launched Where I Am Going, a video series that peeks into the lives of people who’ve experienced NYPD’s Stop-and-Frisk policy. These short documentaries gives us a glance into the lives of ordinary New Yorkers — a…
Resource type: Video
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Bringing People Together
Carla Oterbridge interviews Lorraine and Edward Durham about their needs and gaps in services for Age Concern. Photo: Michelle Dismont-Frazzoni Atlantic’s support in Bermuda has strengthened the capacity of the island’s nonprofit sector by encouraging traditional nonprofits to become social advocates, developing nascent organisations into leaders…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Shared Education Improves Learning in Northern Ireland
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Northern Ireland is a deeply divided society and the education system reflects the level of separation between Protestant and Catholic communities. More than 90 per cent of children attend religiously segregated schools. A declining school-aged population, however, has required administrators to find new ways of…
Resource type: Video
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Shared Education Improves Learning in Northern Ireland
Sharing education involves two or more schools from different community backgrounds working together to share expertise, classes, facilities and teachers. Northern Ireland is a deeply divided society and the education system reflects the level of separation between Protestant and Catholic communities. More than 90 per…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Breaking Down Barriers Through Education
Students in Fermanagh Trust’s Shared Education Programme. Photo: Fermanagh Trust ”That’s a nice idea, but are you insane?” That was what Tony Gallagher, professor of education and pro-vice chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast, commonly heard when he suggested in 2006 that predominantly Roman Catholic and…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Fly-Over Cornell’s Proposed NYC Tech Campus
An animated aerial view of Cornell’s proposed NYC Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island. If built today, the campus’s 150,000-square-foot core academic building would be the largest net-zero energy building in the eastern United States and among the top four largest such buildings in the United…
Resource type: Video
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Esther’s Story: Walking Again Thanks to Adult Day Services
“The first day I went to the centre, I was scared, I was in a wheelchair, and I was paralysed on the left side. Everybody was so friendly. My arm was frozen to my side, and now I can move it and I can open…
Resource type: Grantee Story