Results List
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Annual Reports
Below are links to Atlantic annual reports through 2013. Since then, Christopher G. Oechsli, president and chief executive officer, has been issuing periodic updates about Atlantic’s work, which will come to an end in 2020.
Resource type: Featured Topic
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Atlantic Announces $40 Million Health Equity Initiative in SE Asia
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Atlantic Philanthropies has announced a $40 million investment in a new fellowship initiative aimed at increasing access to affordable, quality health care in Southeast Asia. In partnership with the China Medical Board (CMB) — which will contribute an additional $10 million to the effort — theTransformative…
Resource type: News
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Chuck Feeney, the Billionaire Who Wasn't, Pledges $177 Million to Universities to Fight Dementia
Source: Forbes
By Kerry A. Dolan Chuck Feeney, the cofounder of Duty Free Shoppers, was dubbed “the James Bond of philanthropy” by Forbes in 2012. For years, his charitable entity The Atlantic Philanthropies anonymously gave away tens of millions around the globe. It’s been operating in daylight…
Resource type: News
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After Spring Valley: Making Schools Safe and Supportive
Source: Tasha Tucker, Associate Programme Executive, Racial Equity at The Atlantic Philanthropies.
[caption id="attachment_54151" align="alignright" width="300"] The video shows a South Carolina school officer grabbing a high school student from her chair, knocking her to the floor and dragging her across the classroom.[/caption] As a native of South Carolina, I watched with complete horror and sadness the…
Resource type: News
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A Foundation Confronts Its Final Priorities
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
In 2014, preparing for its final burst of expansive, long-vision grants, Atlantic drew its core programs to a close, downsized its staff, ramped up a final communications strategy, and became, in all respects, an institution in the final stages of work.The Atlantic Philanthropies, the largest institution…
Resource type: News
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Say Hello to the Civic Participation Action Fund
Source: Civic Participation Action Fund
With important social justice movements around the nation gaining momentum, committed advocacy and voter engagement is critical. To continue Atlantic's support for policy change in the United States beyond our limited life, Atlantic has established a new, independent Washington, D.C.-based organization, the Civic Participation Action Fund…
Resource type: Video
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Making Ireland One of the Best Places to Grow Old
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Madge Murphy in a class devoted to developing an understanding of aging at Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing. The students participate in the LAMP (Local Asset Mapping Project), which seeks to create a new paradigm for health care by focusing on…
Resource type: News
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Laying Foundations for Change: The Atlantic Philanthropies in Melbourne
Source: Generosity
Warren Buffett’s bid to out-do Chuck Feeney’s legendary $15 Casio watch, teaching the billionaire philanthropist how to use the Melbourne tram system and spreading the word on Giving While Living were just a handful of the topics covered during Atlantic Philanthropies recent visit to Australia.…
Resource type: News
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The Smart State: How Bioscience Revitalized Queensland, Australia
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Photo: Alicia Rawlings, PhD student and research assistant, fits a geodesic sensor net on the head of a patient. The electrodes in the sensor nets are used to pick up brainwaves just below the scalp.[/caption] “Before Atlantic came with this investment…
Resource type: News
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Tilling The Field: Lessons About Philanthropy’s Role in School Discipline Reform
Source: Leila Fiester, Atlas Learning Project
Anyone concerned about how the futures of millions of children are jeopardized because of discipline practices that unfairly exclude students from U.S. public schools will be heartened by this story about how transformative change can happen. It’s a story of how students and parents, civil…
Resource type: Research Report