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Contact: Joanne McKeirnan Help the Aged Northern Ireland Tel: 028 9072 8648Mobile: 07816 317 774Email: joanne.mckeirnan@hta.org.uk For immediate release: 3 October 2006 CAP heralds an older, louder, strongerNorthern Ireland Today (Tuesday 3 October 2006), four major Northern Ireland organisations join forces with the launch of…

In this blog, Martin O’Brien, Director of the Social Change Initiative (SCI), analyses the recent incidents in Northern Ireland and explores what politicians and philanthropy can do to remediate the situation. Two years ago, we were delighted to welcome Ariadne members to Belfast for the…

Laws provide the skeletal frame of a social order but while laws in theory and by tradition serve the cause of justice, they can easily be, and often are, used to reinforce a repressive regime. Here James A. Goldston and Martin O’Brien reflect on the…

This report is the last in a series of seven chronicling the concluding years of The Atlantic Philanthropies, which is set to become the largest endowed institution thus far to put all its charitable assets to use in a fixed period and then close its…

By Kavitha Mediratta                                                                               Kavitha Mediratta is the founding executive director of the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity (@AfreGlobal) and formerly chief strategy advisor at The Atlantic Philanthropies. A few weeks ago, I had the chance to sit with a gender justice activist in a…

This case study explores how Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) successfully campaigned to end stop-and-frisk abuses in New York City. Stop-and-frisk is a practice of police officers stopping individuals they deem suspicious, questioning them, and frequently frisking them for weapons and other contraband. Out…

Kornbluth is one of 32 inaugural Atlantic Fellows at the Global Brain Health Institute, a collaboration between the Memory and Aging Center at UCSF and Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland.

A new centre for successful ageing aims to address the challenges we all face.

The new Isivivana Centre, a project of the Khayelitsha Youth and Community Centre Trust in South Africa, has its official opening Thursday, October 13. For more on the center, read the post below and see this video. Isivivana built to house organisations campaigning for social…

"Soft Vengeance" will be broadcast on the World Channel (WLIW 21 in New York) on the dates and times below. Visit the World Channel site to find your local station. Wednesday, July 20 at 8pm ET Thursday, July 21 at 12am ET, 8am ET and 2pm ET Saturday,…