Results List
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Diversity in Philanthropy
Source: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
This report by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors looks at how philanthropy’s approach to diversity has evolved and provides data on the successes of major strategies that have been piloted. Original Source Philanthropy in a Changing Society is a three-part report published by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, a New…
Resource type: Research Report
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Study Examines Needs of Ex-Combatants in South Africa
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Ex-combatants in South Africa struggle with pressing needs that nongovernmental organisations and the government can help meet, according to this report commissioned by The Atlantic Philanthropies. .
Resource type: Research Report
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Trends and Recent Estimates of Contraceptive Use Among U.S. Teens
Source: Child Trends
In the U.S., teen females are using more effective hormonal and barrier methods to prevent pregnancy. At the same time, Hispanic teens initiate sex at a younger age and show lower levels of contraceptive use, putting them at greater risk of unintended pregnancy and childbearing or…
Resource type: Research Report
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Migration and Integration
Source: Centre on Migration, Policy and Society
The influx of migration into Ireland has left the government grappling with many issues and gives nongovernmental organisations an opening to play a large role in influencing policy and the nature and style of interventions, according to this study, which was funded by The Atlantic…
Resource type: Research Report
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Grappling with Big Picture Change
Source: The Forum for Youth Investment
The efforts of small-scale funders like family and community foundations in the United States to make systemwide change to improve the lives of children and youth are reviewed in this report by the Forum for Youth Investment. Youth Investment, a grantee of The Atlantic Philanthropies.…
Resource type: Research Report
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FRAC After School Guide
Source: Food Research And Action Center
This handbook published by Atlantic-grantee the Food Research and Action Center offers step-by-step suggestions on how to access crucial funding sources and provides valuable information on the resources available to afterschool programs for nutrition education. FRAC is a grantee of The Atlantic Philanthropies.
Resource type: Research Report
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A Baseline Study on the Provision of Hospice/Specialist Palliative Care Services in Ireland
Source: The Irish Hospice Foundation
This baseline study found a wide regional divergence in the range of services and care options available to people in the Republic of Ireland and also revealed a significant shortfall in government funding as well as a consequent lack of progress in the development of…
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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Our Rights, Our Future: Human Rights-Based Approaches in Ireland
Source: International Human Rights Network
Amnesty International (Irish Section) commissioned the International Human Rights Network to provide this framework document that would outline the internationally agreed core minimum principles for human rights based approaches, and examine them in an Irish context. Amnesty International anticipates that this document will be of…
Resource type: Research Report
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Pre-Intervention Assessments of Primary Health Care and Prevention Services in Viet Nam
Source: Population Council
The results of a commune-level study of health care services in Khanh Hoa and Da Nang provinces in Viet Nam are examined in this report by the Population Council, prepared for The Atlantic Philanthropies.
Resource type: Research Report
