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The National Senior Citizens Law Center is launching a new campaign to use strategic litigation and administrative policy advocacy to protect low income older adults’ access to affordable health care. The campaign is supported by The Atlantic Philanthropies. Now is a time when legal advocacy…

Barnardos is Ireland's largest children's charity, working with over 5,000 children, young people and families all over Ireland each year. Barnardos works with children who face barriers in reaching their full potential - barriers like poverty, abuse and neglect, bereavement or poverty. Their mission is to…

This report, funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies, presents research conducted for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) by the Forced Migration Studies Programme at the University of the Witwatersrand and funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). The Forced Migration Studies Programme at the University of…

Experience Corps, which pairs older adults in the United States with students who are struggling in school, showed statistically significant improvements in reading outcomes and was positively viewed by teachers, according to this evaluation commissioned by The Atlantic Philanthropies.  Experience Corps is an Atlantic grantee.…

This report, released by the Center for Social Inclusion, ranks impact of the recession on all 50 states and the District of Columbia based on 14 variables including housing, jobs, health, and poverty. The Center for Social Inclusion is an Atlantic grantee. The New York…

The road to lasting change in the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people begins with the courage to ask the right questions, said Le Nhan Phuong, Programme Director of the Population Health Programme at The Atlantic Philanthropies, in this speech at the International Conference on…

The Purpose Prize and Civic Ventures are Atlantic grantees. Life doesn’t stop once you turn 60. For some, that's when life begins. That’s the message a think tank is trying to convey with the Purpose Prize, an award that commemorates the work of baby boomers…

I remember covering poverty-stricken schools. Sitting in classrooms in which the teachers were disillusioned or killing time, meeting parent volunteers unable to read to the class and children who appeared rather hopeless.It's bleak.Of course, there are always a few bright spots, and journalists love to…

University of the Witwatersrand is an Atlantic grantee. By Monako Dibetle and Mandy Rossouw. It has been 18 months since the violent xenophobic attacks broke out across the country. Monako Dibetle and Mandy Rossouw talked to foreigners from across Southern Africa, locals and experts and…

The National Women's Law Center and PHI are Atlantic grantees. The National Women’s Law Center has kicked off a campaign to educate women about gender inequities in health care coverage. “Being a Woman is Not a Pre-Existing Condition” was launched on October 20 to mobilize…