Results List
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Affordable Care Act for You & Me!
Source: Children's Defense Fund
The Children’s Defense Fund,an Atlantic grantee, created this video to celebrate the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that will provide access to health coverage for more than 95 percent of America’s children and strengthen America’s health care system for everyone. Join the…
Resource type: Video
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Young Invincibles’ Nationwide Tour
Amy Lin and Aaron Smith of Young Invincibles appeared on the Dylan Ratigan show to discuss their nationwide bus tour. The tour aims to spark discussion among young people on problems from unemployment to health care to student debt. Young Invincibles is an Atlantic grantee.
Resource type: Video
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Ray’s Story – A Death Penalty Mistake
Ray Krone was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. He has been proven innocent and exonerated, and now helps other “exonerees” share their stories of unjust sentences and close calls with state-sanctioned death penalties. Ray works for Witness to Innocence, which…
Resource type: Video
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Ray’s Story: A Death Penalty Mistake
Ray Krone was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. “I was the 100th person exonerated from death row. So, there was lots of media attention when I got out. On that first day, a reporter asked me, ‘Ray, given your faith…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Shattered Families
As undocumented immigrant parents are detained and deported, an increasing number of children and youth are stuck in the foster care system, with little hope of reuniting with their mothers and fathers. It’s an injustice that hurts everyone. Read and share the groundbreaking report from…
Resource type: Video
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Winding Down the Atlantic Philanthropies – 2009-2010: Beginning the End Game
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
This report is the second in a series to chronicle the concluding years of The Atlantic Philanthropies, the largest foundation ever to decide to commit its entire endowment in a limited timeframe and then close its doors. It captures the foundation between late 2009 and…
Resource type: Research Report
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UCT’s Law, Race and Gender Unit Takes on the Controversial Traditional Courts Bill
University of Cape Town’s Law, Race and Gender Unit (LRG), an Atlantic grantee, is working with the Legal Resources Centre and local community-based organisations to ensure that people living in South African rural villages will have an opportunity to speak out against the proposed passage…
Resource type: Video
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GLEN: Evaluation of the Building Sustainable Change Programme
Source: PA Consulting Group
The Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN) in Ireland achieved significant progress under an ambitious five-year programme to achieve equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual people, according to an evaluation by the PA Consulting Group. Through the programme, which was funded by Atlantic, GLEN played…
Resource type: Research Report
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Early Years Media Initiative for Children: Playing the Same Game
Early Years, an Atlantic grantee, is a non-profit organisation that promotes high quality childcare for children aged 0 – 12 and their families. As part of its work, Early Years and the Peace Initiatives Institute created a programme aimed at children aged 3-4 years old…
Resource type: Video
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When Aims and Objectives Rhyme
How can two foundations collaborate to advance their goals? A new case study, “When Aims and Objectives Rhyme,” by Tony Proscio describes how The Atlantic Philanthropies and The One Foundation built a meaningful partnership by focusing on their common goals to help children, youth and…
Resource type: Video