Results List
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Purpose Built: Knowledge and tools for people who fund, lead, and evaluate capital projects
Source: MASS Design
Capital projects often bring lasting benefits to nonprofit organizations and the people they serve. In the United States alone, foundations grant more than $3 billion per year to construct or improve buildings. To help these funders and their nonprofit partners make the most of capital…
Resource type: Case Study
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Wind in the Sails: Grantmaking for General Operating Support at The Atlantic Philanthropies (1982-2016)
Source: Ben Kerman
This case study delves into why and how Atlantic made nearly half of its grants with considerable general operating support contributions. It examines the foundation’s decisions at key junctures and responses to challenges. The report also offers mini case studies and lessons that may be…
Resource type: Case Study
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Cook County, Illinois, State’s Attorney Election and Accountability: From Protest to Power
Source: Barsoum Policy Consulting
This case study was commissioned by the Civic Participation Action Fund, an Atlantic grantee. Cook County, Illinois, was one of the first jurisdictions to focus on electing a progressive prosecutor—a criminal justice reform strategy now being used across the United States. Kim Foxx was…
Resource type: Case Study
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Harris County, Texas, District Attorney Election and Accountability: Building Electoral Power for Criminal Justice Reform
Source: Barsoum Policy Consulting
This case study was commissioned by the Civic Participation Action Fund, an Atlantic grantee. The 2016 election of Kim Ogg as district attorney (DA) in Harris County, Texas, was part of a Democratic electoral wave that extended from the presidential candidate to down ballot races…
Resource type: Case Study
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How an Innovative Grant Catalyzed Investment Capital to Bring Health Care to Vulnerable Populations
Source: Arabella Advisors
This case study describes how Atlantic partnered with impact investing specialists at Arabella Advisors to help Vital Healthcare Capital (V-Cap), a community development financial institution. Atlantic’s grant enabled V-Cap to expand its capacity to support health care providers that serve low-income and vulnerable communities in the United…
Resource type: Case Study
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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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From the Streets to the Courts to City Hall: A Case Study of a Comprehensive Campaign to Reform Stop-and-Frisk in New York City
Source: Communities United for Police Reform
This case study explores how Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) successfully campaigned to end stop-and-frisk abuses in New York City. Stop-and-frisk is a practice of police officers stopping individuals they deem suspicious, questioning them, and frequently frisking them for weapons and other contraband. Out…
Resource type: Case Study
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Building Palliative Care: The Cicely Saunders Institute Journey
Source: Olivia Dix and the Cicely Saunders Institute
This case study looks at the work of the Cicely Saunders Institute (CSI) at Kings College London, U.K, and its impact on the field of palliative care since it was established in 2010; Atlantic was its largest funder. The Cicely Saunders Institute is the only…
Resource type: Case Study
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The International Dimension of the Palliative Medicine Fellowship Programme
Source: Max Watson
How can fellowships in palliative care improve end of life care in rural communities? This report describes the experience of working with a fellow from Nepal as part of a global palliative care fellowship designed to create palliative care leaders with both the academic and…
Resource type: Case Study
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Partnership With Government: An Exit Strategy for Philanthropies?
Source: The Foundation Review
In “Partnership With Government: An Exit Strategy for Philanthropies?” co-authors Colin Knox and Padraic Quirk share a case study of Atlantic’s work in Northern Ireland, where it supported three thematic intervention areas: aging; children and young people; and reconciliation and human rights. Part of Atlantic’s exit strategy has…
Resource type: Case Study
