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This report examines how quality advocacy journalism from Health-e News, a South African nonprofit news service focused on the country’s delivery of public health services, is helping advance the goal of achieving a healthy, equitable and just nation. Health-e News, which was founded in 1999, came to prominence…

Awaiting devastating news of a loved one in a hospital is harrowing for family members. The Design & Dignity Programme is creating comfortable, homey spaces in the wards to soften the experience. [caption id="attachment_80071" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] In 2011, the Mater Hospital received a grant to…

We are thrilled to announce that Beverley Skeggs is to join the LSE as Academic Director of the III’s Atlantic Fellows programme from 1 September. She will be working closely with the III’s co-directors John Hills and Mike Savage, as well as the LSE’s wider…

How can grantees sustain the impact of their work — especially after their funding ends? This series of research reports identifies sustainability practices and skills that have enabled Atlantic’s grantees in Northern Ireland to continue their work after the foundation ceased funding their operations. The reports draw on the experiences of organizations…

Fellowship program, driven by $US50 million grant, will drive change from grass roots up to redress social disadvantage

The first group of fellows come from a range of disciplines, and will be responsible for addressing the causes and challenges of dementia. [caption id="attachment_78555" align="alignright" width="300"] Opening of the Global Brain Health Institute. Photo: TCD[/caption] By Niamh Egleston, Deputy News Editor The Global Brain…

This short report provides a synopsis of the development of palliative care in the U.S. over the last 50 years. It includes a description of its beginnings in the early 1970s, influenced by hospice care in the United Kingdom; the impact of the 1982 Medicare…

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By Sheila Hoag, Senior Researcher, and Debra Lipson, Senior Fellow, Mathematica Policy Research Traditionally, state and local Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) staff have conducted outreach to uninsured children eligible to help enroll them into these public coverage options. Advocates have also organized public education…

By Tasha Tucker and Ben Kerman Many philanthropic institutions require prospective or current grantees to match all or part of the value of a grant in order to secure funding. Foundations use matching contingencies to recruit funding partners, build grantee capacity to raise funds, replicate program…