Results List
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Atlantic Fellows: Advancing Fairer, Healthier, More Inclusive Societies
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
We’re empowering and connecting thousands of dynamic leaders across the globe to realize a better world.
Resource type: News
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Welcome to the School of Resiliency
It’s a Thursday morning in mid- December and Betsye Steele, principal of Ralph J. Bunche High School, is holding her weekly new-student orientation session. She sits at the small table in her office talking with Antwon, the school’s newest student, and his grandfather. As they…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Perpetuity or Spend-Down: Does the Notion of Lifespan Matter in Organized Philanthropy?
Source: Nonprofit Quarterly
Are foundations with set periods for spending down their assets more effective as grantmakers than their peers who are established to exist in perpetuity?
Resource type: News
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Funder Discussion Guide: Advocacy, Politics & Philanthropy
Source: Innovation Network
In funding advocacy, foundations sometimes confront questions such as What’s a promising strategic focus?, How to integrate grassroots and grasstops advocacy?, or How to empower advocates in planning and funding decisions? Over the course of a 10-year effort to comprehensively reform the U.S. immigration system, Atlantic faced similar choices. The decisions it…
Resource type: Case Study
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Beyond the Win: Pathways for Policy Implementation
Source: ORS Impact
When it comes to policy, most attention is focused on “the win.” But—as so many advocates know—“the win” is just the beginning. Once a policy has been “won,” it moves to the policy implementation phase, where there are innumerable new decisions to make as well…
Resource type: Research Report
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Children’s Health Coverage: On the Road to 100 Percent?
Source: Georgetown Center for Children and Families
By Ben Kerman, The Atlantic Philanthropies The 2015 open enrollment period offers an opportunity to build on tremendous progress in bringing health coverage to more children and their families. An analysis of recent census data by Georgetown Center on Children and Families confirms that many…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic's Focus on Dementia Goes Global
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
For more than two decades Atlantic has invested in programs to strengthen the quality of our lives, with a major emphasis on addressing needs arising from a worldwide population living longer than ever. Part of that work has included support for initiatives to leverage the…
Resource type: News
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Diane E. Meier, MD: From Early Lessons in Critical Thinking to 'Palliative Care Everywhere'
Source: The Asco Post
By Ronald Piana Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. —Helen Keller, Optimism, 1903 [caption id="attachment_44580" align="alignleft" width="292"] Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP is director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care.[/caption] Shortly past 8:00 AM…
Resource type: News
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President of Ireland Joins the Bay Area Council In Honoring Marc Benioff and Chuck Feeney
Source: TMG Partners
Salesforce Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff and Duty Free Shoppers Group Founder Chuck Feeney were the guests of honor at the Bay Area Council’s 70th Anniversary Annual Dinner and 2015 Bay Area Business Hall of Fame gathering on Wednesday, October 28, at The Fairmont Hotel…
Resource type: News
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Archives of Atlantic Philanthropies Given to Cornell Library
Source: Cornell Chronicle
By Melanie Lefkowitz The archives of The Atlantic Philanthropies, among the world’s largest and most influential foundations, will be housed permanently at Cornell. The archives, which will serve as an important resource for philanthropists and historians, document roughly $8 billion in Atlantic grants over three…
Resource type: News
