Results List
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The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Grantmaking in the Cancer and Biomedical Fields: 1986-2015
This report summarizes The Atlantic Philanthropies’ investments totaling more than $1 billion between 1986-2015 to advance cancer research around the world. [caption id="attachment_76572" align="alignright" width="450"] Atlantic invested $32 million to help establish the Translational Research Center in Queensland, Australia. Professor Ian Frazer is TRI’s founding…
Resource type: Research Report
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The Atlantic Philanthropies: Northern Ireland
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
[caption id="attachment_80715" align="alignright" width="450"] 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[/caption] This book tells the story of how The Atlantic Philanthropies’ investment…
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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Roles of Engagement: Strategies and Tactics for Philanthropic-Government Relations in Policy Reform
Source: Atlas Learning Project
Over the course of its history, Atlantic frequently engaged with national and local governments around the world on efforts to improve public systems, services, policies and practices that affect the life outcomes of vulnerable and disadvantaged people. Roles of Engagement summarizes and analyzes the different strategies and…
Resource type: Research Report
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Atlantic Mourns the Death of Patrick Johnston, Dynamic Leader of Queen's University Belfast
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Professor Patrick (Paddy) Johnston was a dynamic leader of Queen's University Belfast and a leading oncologist. He was deeply and personally committed to raising a new generation of thinkers, researchers and leaders. Atlantic Founder Chuck Feeney, and all of us at the foundation who knew…
Resource type: News
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Design & Dignity: How Irish Hospitals are Transforming Spaces for Patients and Families at the End of Life
Source: Susan Parker
This case study describes how Irish hospitals are creating quiet and peaceful spaces for family members when they are coping with difficult diagnoses or the death of loved ones. The Design & Dignity program was established by the Irish Hospice Foundation and the Health Service…
Resource type: Case Study
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Funder Advocacy Collaboratives: Framing Thoughts
Source: GrantCraft
By Jen Bokoff and Cynthia Gibson GrantCraft Editor’s Note: This article is the first in a resource series about funder advocacy collaboratives. The series draws on real-world funder experiences to share strategies about anticipating and overcoming prevalent obstacles to success. See Acknowledgements and Methodology and…
Resource type: News
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Value, Time, and Time-Limited Philanthropy
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society
Leaders of limited-life foundations often assert that spending all of their resources in a relatively short period gives them the ability to do more good, to produce more social value, than if they were to hold the same resources in a lasting endowment and disburse…
Resource type: Research Report
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Finished, But Not Done
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
As Atlantic wraps up its work, including completing our grantmaking this year, one of our final acts is to invest in a community of emerging leaders whose efforts to build a better world will outlast the foundation.
Resource type: News
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Investment to Build New Generation of Leaders
Source: Pursuit
Fellowship program, driven by $US50 million grant, will drive change from grass roots up to redress social disadvantage
Resource type: News