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Investment in end-of-life care has made Ireland a world leader in advancing palliative and hospice care but regional inequities persist, according to an evaluation by Professor Mary McCarron and colleagues at Trinity College Dublin. The evaluation examined The Atlantic Philanthropies’ End of Life programme –…

Irish billionaire Chuck Feeney is one of a growing number of philanthropists who want to make a difference now not tomorrow and a leading advocate for ‘giving while living’.The trend for giving in one’s lifetime and over a shorter time, rather than in perpetuity, is…

OPINION  Doron Isaacs of Equal Education describes the organisation's campaign that got the Minister of Basic Education to settle their court case last week.On Monday 12 November I was sitting in a meeting at Equal Education head office in Khayelitsha and noticed the red light…

The World Health Organisation has awarded accreditation to the Ireland-Vietnam Blood Borne Virus Initiative (IVVI) which is co-funded by Irish Aid and Atlantic Philanthropies. The IVVI carries out disease prevention and health promotion in Vietnam, a country wracked by blood-borne viruses such as HIV and…

By Elizabeth Roberts Three Bermudian women made history by being the first from the Island to attend a prestigious gender studies programme in Barbados. Elaine Williams, Deborah Bradford and Robyn Skinner spent all of July on the intensive course at the Caribbean Institute for Gender…

youngballymun is a complex community change initiative that is working to improve the learning and well-being outcomes for all children and young people in Ballymun.  Adopting a life-cycle approach from pregnancy and infancy and right through to early adulthood, youngballymun supports the integration of evidence-based…

by Daniel AltschulerOver the past decade, the immigrants' rights movement has become one of this country's strongest grassroots forces. Nationwide, grassroots groups and legislative coalitions have mobilized millions of people to protest punitive enforcement laws, promote legalization for undocumented people and demand access to state…

by Gara LaMarche and Deepak BhargavaTwenty-one months after Barack Obama was inaugurated on a wave of hope for change in America's politics and policies, at least two important and seemingly contradictory things can be said.First, there has been a series of significant progressive reforms: an economic stimulus bill…

Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, addressed the National University of Ireland-Galway's Life Course Institute Seminar. He commented that Life Course projects are important because they are not just about “treating” disadvantage in old age or in youth, but are about breaking…

Northern Ireland was a different place when Atlantic first began making grants there in the early 1990s. The violent conflict had claimed thousands of lives and had deeply divided communities. Atlantic was drawn to the country by Atlantic Founder, Chuck Feeney, who himself played an…