Results List
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Race and Punishment
Source: The Sentencing Project
White Americans’ strong association of crime with blacks and Latinos is related to their support for punitive policies that disproportionately impact people of color. Synthesizing two decades of research, this report from The Sentencing Project concludes that racial perceptions of crime are a central cause…
Resource type: Research Report
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Participatory Grant Making: A Success Story from Southern Africa
Source: The Other Foundation
The Other Foundation, an organisation working to advance the rights and well‐being of LGBTI people in Southern Africa, wanted their first grantmaking initiative to be a truly transparent and participatory process. They came up with an innovative solution. Rather than consider grant proposals entirely on…
Resource type: Research Report
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Harvest Time for The Atlantic Philanthropies – 2012-2013: Decline & Rise
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
This report, the fourth in a series about The Atlantic Philanthropies’s concluding years, details unexpected turns in the foundation’s approach to commit its entire endowment in a limited time frame. The report covers late 2012 through the end of 2013, some three to four years…
Resource type: Research Report
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Towards an Inclusive Public Transport Service in Ireland
Source: Immigrant Council of Ireland
Many experiences of racist assault, abuse, graffiti and vandalism of property occur on public transport. Over the past four years, the Immigrant Council of Ireland has coordinated a partnership with public transport companies in greater Dublin to develop robust and proactive anti-racism strategies and policies…
Resource type: Research Report
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STAD: Stop Transphobia and Discrimination
Source: Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI)
Transgender people face elevated levels of violence and discrimination in the Republic of Ireland, according to this report from Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI). The Stop Transphobia and Discrimination (STAD) report, the first of its kind, documents 32 hate incidents, of which 15 were designated…
Resource type: Research Report
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School Discipline Consensus Report
Source: The Council of State Governments Justice Center
The research and data on school discipline practices is clear: Millions of students are removed from their classrooms each year, overwhelmingly for minor misconduct. We can’t allow this trend to continue. Addressing staggeringly high suspension rates is essential to making school a place where students…
Resource type: Research Report
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Speaking from the Margins: Trans Mental Health and Wellbeing in Ireland
Source: Transgender Equality Network Ireland
Trans people in the Republic of Ireland are at much higher risk of negative mental health, self-harm and suicide than the general population, according to the results of the largest study of transgender people ever carried out in Ireland. Almost half of the study’s participants…
Resource type: Research Report
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Catalysing LGBT Equality and Visibility in Ireland
Source: Dragonfly Partners
From 2004-2013, The Atlantic Philanthropies provided grant funding to support equality and visibility for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the Republic of Ireland. Atlantic focused its funding on four organisations with the objective of improving LGBT people’s access to rights and services.…
Resource type: Research Report
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The Over 50s in a Changing Ireland
Source: The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
More than one third of people over 50 in the Republic of Ireland are obese, with a further 45 per cent overweight, according to the second report of results from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). The report outlines additional health challenges faced by…
Resource type: Research Report
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Irish National Audit of Dementia Care in Acute Hospitals
Source: The Irish National Audit of Dementia
Admission to an acute hospital can be distressing and disorienting for a person with dementia. These hospitals currently lack standards for assessing and caring for the particular needs of patients with dementia, even though dementia may affect up to 25% of hospital in-patients at any…
Resource type: Research Report
