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Major Grant Expands Center for the Study of Inequality
Source: Cornell Chronicle
A recent, $10 million grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies to Cornell’s Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) will support new research and educational opportunities focused on the causes and consequences of inequality.
Resource type: News
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Northern Ireland's universities 'world leading'
Source: Belfast Telegraph
Some of the research by Northern Ireland's universities is world-leading, a report said today. Civil engineering, nursing and midwifery and electrical engineering were among subjects attracting the highest praise, a review by other colleges said. The University of Ulster (UU) and Queen's University Belfast (QUB)…
Resource type: News
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Study reveals children's risk of poverty
Source: Irish Examiner
CHILDREN who grow up in households where their parents are poorly educated or not in the labour force are at greater risk of poverty, a report has shown. The study, published today by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), also indicates that lone parents…
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The Key Role of Advocacy Funding in the U.S. Health Reform Debate
The reasons why The Atlantic Philanthropies made what may be the largest U.S. advocacy grant ever in order to support health reform are outlined by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Grantmakers in Health conference in Orlando, Florida. Occasionally it is better not…
Resource type: Speech
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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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84% of NI People Have Made No Provision For Future Care
Source: University of Ulster
More than four out of five people in Northern Ireland have made no provision for their care in the future, while a full one-third of elderly people say their greatest fear is of having to move into a care home, because of worries about the…
Resource type: News
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The Atlantic Philanthropies-University of Queensland Vietnamese Scholarship Programme Experience: Stepping Stone and Personal Transformation
Source: The Association of Commonwealth Universities Blog
By Trevor Grigg The scholarship programme and its objectives Over the period 2000 to 2006, The Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) funded The University of Queensland's Vietnam Coursework Masters and Doctoral Development Scholarship Programs, with grants totalling AUD 17 million. The primary objective of the programmes was:…
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Taking Account of Race: A Philanthropic Imperative
Source: Gara LaMarche
President Obama’s election has unquestionably transformed discussions of race in the United States. At the recent Black Entertainment Television Honors Awards, Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina declared that now that an African-American man holds the most powerful position in the world, “Every child has…
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Universities jointly honour ‘Chuck’ Feeney, the founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies
Source: University College Dublin
The universities of Ireland, North and South, have conferred an honorary Doctorate of Laws (LLD) on Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies. The degree was conferred to give public honour and thanks to Chuck Feeney for his incredible support of the Irish…
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We are all to blame for deaths
Source: Inyathelo
LAST week, nearly 40 people were killed in a complex cocktail of political, economic and social distress. The fact that there was little leadership making an effort to resolve what was clearly becoming an uncontrollable tragedy waiting to happen, shows the weakness of our government,…
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