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On 30 November 2010, The Chronicle of Philanthropy held a live online discussion about advocacy campaigns - including the lessons learned from the Health Care for America Now campaign. The team that conducted an independent evaluation of the historic HCAN advocacy campaign, Dan Cramer of Grassroots Solutions and Tom Novick…

To celebrate Social Security’s 75th birthday, advocates have planned birthday parties at 100 strategic locations around the country. Come join the Harlem celebration in New York this Thursday, August 19th, 10-noon.  The attached invitation provides details about the plans for the event as well as…

An Intensive Institute for Journalists, November 14-17, 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley. The Graduate School of Journalism and the Warren Institute at Berkeley Law are organizing a four-day institute for working journalists on covering immigration, an issue that has become central to debates…

When Atlantic commissioned philanthropy consultant Tony Proscio in 2010, in conjunction with Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society, to write a series of reports charting the foundation’s final years, it was the largest foundation planning to put all its charitable assets to…

Atlantic made a grant to Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors to conduct the following surveys, reports, guidance, and case studies on time-limited philanthropy and Giving While Living. Strategic time horizons–the length of time for which a philanthropic organization chooses to actively carry out its mission–have increasingly become…

By Zanele Figlan, Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in South Africa. The recent unrest in our country, South Africa, in the first two weeks of July 2021 is a first in the history of the post-democratic era. It started off as a protest action against…

By Kathy Hovis Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56, founding chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies and the university’s most generous donor, will be the first recipient of a new Cornell award created in his name to honor successful entrepreneurs who have dedicated their lives to giving…

By Kathy Hovis Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56, founding chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies and the university’s most generous donor, will be the first recipient of a new Cornell award created in his name to honor successful entrepreneurs who have dedicated their lives to giving…

By Julie Pfitzinger Dominic Campbell, a 2018 Influencer in Aging, is the co-founder of Creative Aging International and an Atlantic Fellow for Equity and Brain Health with the Global Brain Health Initiative. From 2006-2013, he was the director of the Bealtaine Festival in Ireland, an annual national event which celebrates aging. Next…

The newest installment in our ongoing chronicle tells about the year The Atlantic Philanthropies defined how it was going to end, and what its final goals would be.Several weeks ago, Chris Oechsli, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ CEO, posted an online essay whose headline declared that Atlantic is “NOT…