Results List
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Harvest Time for The Atlantic Philanthropies – 2012-2013: Decline & Rise
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
This report, the fourth in a series about The Atlantic Philanthropies’s concluding years, details unexpected turns in the foundation’s approach to commit its entire endowment in a limited time frame. The report covers late 2012 through the end of 2013, some three to four years…
Resource type: Research Report
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Winding Down the Atlantic Philanthropies – 2001-2009: The First Eight Years
Source: Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
This report is the first 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 addresses questions raised by the seminal decision made of Atlantic's founder…
Resource type: Research Report
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The United States and the World Since 9/11: Less Safe and Less Free
Source: Gara LaMarche
One result of the Bush Administration’s striking combination of ineptitude and contempt for law and government is a growing shelf, on its way to becoming a library, of books that chronicle and analyze the ways in which constitutional rights and international law have been assaulted…
Resource type: News
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Brennan Center Strategic Fund, Inc.
$2,500,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Foundation for a Civil Society
$823,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Foundation for a Civil Society
$265,079
Resource type: Grantee
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Civil Society Development Foundation
$154,091
Resource type: Grantee
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Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe
$7,500,000
Resource type: Grantee
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The Foundations of Civil Society
Source: Tony Proscio
This report presents findings from a review of Atlantic’s grantmaking between 1984-2001 to support the fields of nonprofits, philanthropy, and volunteering in the United States. Author Tony Proscio interviewed some three dozen nonprofit scholars and practitioners to gather their insights and observations about how Atlantic’s…
Resource type: Research Report
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Two Civil Partnership Ceremonies Conducted on Average Each Day
Source: Irish Times
By Pamela DuncanAn average of two civil partnership ceremonies have taken place per day since their introduction last year, with a total of 862 ceremonies registered between April 2011 and September 2012.In that time period, 1,724 lesbian and gay people from 61 countries entered into…
Resource type: News
