Results List
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The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Investments in Higher Education
Source: Susan Parker
This report summarizes Atlantic’s $2 billion investment to strengthen higher education in the United States, Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Viet Nam, and Australia over the course of 35 years. The report found that Atlantic’s funding for a range of initiatives – buildings,…
Resource type: Research Report
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The Atlantic Philanthropies: Northern Ireland
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Jean Brown (left) and Renee Crawford, longtime leaders of Suffolk Lenadoon Interface Group, have worked together for over 20 years to forge a better life for their community. Photo: Richard Wade This book tells the story of how The Atlantic Philanthropies’ investment of $570 million from…
Resource type: Research Report
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The Atlantic Philanthropies: Republic of Ireland
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
This book tells the story of The Atlantic Philanthropies’ 30 years of grantmaking in the Republic of Ireland — investments totaling $1.3 billion to help breathe life into university research, support major advances in human rights, and underwrite joint efforts with government to improve services…
Resource type: Research Report
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The Atlantic Philanthropies: Australia
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
This book tells the story of Atlantic’s $368 million investments in Australia between 1998 and 2016 to grow the country’s biomedical research, bolster higher education, advance social equity and boost leadership capabilities in related sectors. In Brisbane, students visit a Translational Research Institute science laboratory…
Resource type: Research Report
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The Cornell Tradition
Source: Flatbush Pictures
In 1982, Atlantic’s first-ever grant started the The Cornell Tradition fellowship, which has since supported 5,500 of Cornell University’s most service-oriented undergraduates. We recently gave the program our very last grant, too. Our Work in the United States: A Film Series The Cornell Tradition is one in a series…
Resource type: Video
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Atlantic’s Education Grantees Around the World
Source: Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)
The Atlantic Philanthropies was presented with the 2016 The James L. Fisher Award for Distinguished Service to Education from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). This video, prepared for the occasion by CASE, illustrates the work of Atlantic’s education grantees around the world. Learn…
Resource type: Video
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Make Big Plans: Cornell Olin Lecture
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
Atlantic President and CEO Christopher G. Oechsli joined Cornell University President Emeritus Frank H. T. Rhodes for a conversation about Atlantic’s founder, Chuck Feeney, and the vision and values behind the foundation’s grantmaking at Cornell and around the world. At the event, Hunter R. Rawlings…
Resource type: Speech
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The Atlantic Philanthropies-University of Queensland Vietnamese Scholarship Program 2000-2006: Assessing the Impact
Source: Carisgold Pty Limited
An evaluation of a program that enabled young Vietnamese professionals and university academics to attend the University of Queensland in Australia found that participants returned home better able to contribute to the social and economic development of their country. The evaluation investigated how the Vietnam…
Resource type: Evaluation
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The Atlantic Philanthropies in Viet Nam: 1998–2013
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Note: In 2018, we published an updated version of this report as part of our Country Books series. Between 1998–2013, Atlantic invested $381.8 million in Viet Nam to strengthen the country’s higher education and primary health care systems. This report tells the story of the…
Resource type: Research Report
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Providing for the University of the Western Cape to Reach New Levels of Excellence
School of Public Health. Photo: UWC In 2005, Founding Chairman Chuck Feeney decided that Atlantic would invest in a state-of-the-art Life Sciences building for the University of the Western Cape (UWC) after learning that researchers at this historically disadvantaged school were producing internationally recognised work…
Resource type: Grantee Story
