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Jody's Stripping Away Stereotypes to Reveal Indigenous Pride
Source: Sunshine Coast Daily
By Jody Barney I am a Birri-Gubba/Urangan woman from southeast Queensland. I am Aboriginal, I am deaf, I am gay and currently I am living in rural Victoria. I'm not yet 50 but I have been doing my work for exactly 30 years. As a…
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Dominic Campbell: Inspired to Celebrate Aging
Source: Next Avenue
By Julie Pfitzinger Dominic Campbell, a 2018 Influencer in Aging, is the co-founder of Creative Aging International and an Atlantic Fellow for Equity and Brain Health with the Global Brain Health Initiative. From 2006-2013, he was the director of the Bealtaine Festival in Ireland, an annual national event which celebrates aging. Next…
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GW Health Workforce Institute Receives $5.5 Million to Advance Health Workforce Equity Issue
Source: The George Washington University
WASHINGTON, DC (March 9, 2016)— Researchers at the George Washington University’s (GW) Health Workforce Institute today announced a $5.5 million award from The Atlantic Philanthropies to promote health workforce equity by identifying, connecting and preparing leaders in the field to advance social mission in health professions education.…
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Gara LaMarche '76's Job Is To Give Away $4 Billion
Source: Columbia College Today Alumni Magazine May/June 2008
Original Source By Thomas F. Ferguson '74 By the time most people are 50, they have learned to spend less than they earn. Gara LaMarche '76 has had to unlearn that rule in his job as CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, a $4 billion global…
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The Purpose Prize: Often the Best Chapters are the Later Ones
Source: Gara LaMarche
When Gordon Johnson was a teenager, his Dad took in two nieces and two nephews whose parents were unable to care for them. He never forgot his father’s big-spirited act, or the neglect by government care agencies that made it necessary. Mr. Johnson pursued a…
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Transformative Leaders for Health Equity in Southeast Asia
Source: China Medical Board
[caption id="attachment_76935" align="aligncenter" width="581"] Fellows join Lincoln Chen in launching the initiative. Source: China Medical Board[/caption] At the Prince Mahidol Award Conference in Bangkok on January 29, CMB announced an unprecedented partnership with the Atlantic Philanthropies to launch an ambitious program to nurture an entire…
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Brave New Films Launches Diversity Fellowship
Source: Brave New Films
Award winning documentary company partners with The Atlantic Philanthropies to train people of color in the areas of film and social mediaCulver City, California (August 12, 2015) - Production Company Brave New Films, headed by award winning filmmaker Robert Greenwald has partnered with The Atlantic Philanthropies…
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Transformative Leadership for Health Equity in Southeast Asia: a Journey through the Equity Initiative (2016-2022)
Source: China Medical Board
In 2016 the Atlantic Philanthropies partnered with the China Medical Board to launch an ambitious program that would build and foster a network of over 500 dedicated leaders and advocates to advance health equity in Southeast Asia and China over a span of 20 years.…
Resource type: Research Report
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The Irish-American Billionaire Who Gave Away His Fortune
Source: The Irish Times
Chuck Feeney, ‘the anti-Trump’, has written his final Atlantic Philanthropies cheque.
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Scanning the Skyline: Lessons From 30 Years of Capital Grantmaking
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
Buildings have a special allure for philanthropy—their mass, their unambiguous reality, their durability, their promise of sheltering great transformative enterprise—that few other achievements can match. They also conjure a cloud of distinctive risks: the possibility of inadequate maintenance, financial drain, premature obsolescence, the danger that…
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