Results List
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Community Organizing Never Looked So Good
Source: The New York Times
Original Source The Center for Community Change is an Atlantic grantee. By SARA RIMER CAMBRIDGE, Mass. QUINN RALLINS, 23, graduated magna cum laude last year from Morehouse College with a dual major in international studies and Spanish. This spring, Mr. Rallins is finishing his master’s degree in…
Resource type: News
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Justice advocate faces challenge of recession
Source: Financial Times
Original Source By Lauren Foster Ann Beeson has tackled some tough issues in her career as a human rights advocate and litigator, including challenging the National Security Agency's illegal surveillance of Americans without a warrant and the constitutionality of the Patriot Act. Now, as executive…
Resource type: News
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Americans of All Ages Are Ready for Citizen Service: Are Politicians Ready to Lead Them?
Source: Gara LaMarche
This morning Senators John McCain and Barack Obama suspended their intense competition for the Presidency to visit Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, in tribute to those who lost their lives on a brilliantly sunny New York morning seven years ago today. And tonight they will…
Resource type: News
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Change Comes to Washington: Will it Come to Philanthropy, Too?
Philanthropy should step up and seize the unprecedented opportunities created by the election of President Obama, said Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, in this speech at the Annual Meeting of Southern California Grantmakers in Los Angeles. When the terrific Sushma Raman –…
Resource type: Speech
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Impact, Legacy and Collaboration
Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, talks about his experiences of effective collaboration, how to make an impact and what it takes to leave a legacy in philanthropy in this speech to the New Mexico Regional Association of Grantmakers in Albuquerque. I have…
Resource type: Speech
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Announces Full Cohort of Atlantic Fellows
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
The first global cohort of Atlantic Fellows includes activists, artists, journalists, health professionals and policymakers collaborating across the globe to build a healthier, fairer future.
Resource type: News
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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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Final Grant From Atlantic Supports The Cornell Tradition
Source: Cornell Chronicle
By Diane Lebo Wallace [caption id="attachment_79432" align="alignright" width="460"] The Cornell Tradition awards 500 fellowships each year to Cornell students who demonstrate significant work experience, a commitment to campus and/or community service, and academic achievement. Photo: Lindsay France/University Photography[/caption] The Atlantic Philanthropies, the foundation established by entrepreneur…
Resource type: News
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Betting Big on New Leaders in Health Equity
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
This new fellowship initiative in Southeast Asia seeks to dramatically reduce disparities in health care.
Resource type: News
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One Year Into My Brother's Keeper – What We've Done and What's to Come
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
By Kavitha Mediratta Head of Racial Equity Programs The Atlantic Philanthropies As today's reports from President Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative and the Executives' Alliance for Boys and Men of Color make clear, tremendous work has been done in the past year. And much more…
Resource type: News
