Results List
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2004 Annual Report
The 2004 Annual Report of The Atlantic Philanthropies provides an overview of Atlantic, programme highlights, grants awarded and investment performance. The report describes Atlantic’s current areas of focus and grants awarded in these areas.
Resource type: Annual Report
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The Next Generation of Leaders Advocating for Brain Health
Source: The Lancet
By Dana Smith A monologist, a musician, an event producer, and an animal behaviourist are working to change how society thinks about aging and dementia. These individuals are part of the first cohort of Atlantic Fellows at the Global Brain Health Institute and are using…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic Mourns the Death of Patrick Johnston, Dynamic Leader of Queen's University Belfast
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Professor Patrick (Paddy) Johnston was a dynamic leader of Queen's University Belfast and a leading oncologist. He was deeply and personally committed to raising a new generation of thinkers, researchers and leaders. Atlantic Founder Chuck Feeney, and all of us at the foundation who knew…
Resource type: News
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The Nurture Programme: Making Every Contact Count
Source: The Katharine Howard Foundation
The Nurture Programme – Infant Health and Wellbeing is designed to improve the information and professional supports that the Health Service Executive (HSE) provides to parents during pregnancy and the first three years of their baby’s life. It is a partnership between the HSE, the Atlantic…
Resource type: News
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Breaking Down Barriers Through Education
Students in Fermanagh Trust's Shared Education Programme. Photo: Fermanagh Trust ''That's a nice idea, but are you insane?" That was what Tony Gallagher, professor of education and pro-vice chancellor of Queen's University Belfast, commonly heard when he suggested in 2006 that predominantly Roman Catholic and…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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A Day in a Life With Disability
Source: Genio Trust
Don Bailey, who navigates life in a wheelchair, spent most of his early life living in institutional care. When he left St. Joseph’s Hospital in Coole, Ireland at age twenty and moved to Dublin to work, he found the challenges of living on his own…
Resource type: News
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This Week in PubHub: LGBTQ Issues
Source: Philantopic, a blog from Philanthropy News Digest
(Kyoko Uchida manages PubHub, the Foundation Center's online catalog of foundation-sponsored publications. In her last post, she looked at four reports that examined efforts to protect and promote international human rights.)This week PubHub is concluding its month-long focus on civil and human rights by featuring a…
Resource type: News
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Growling and Kicking for Social Change
It is time for Americans to bring together two powerful forces that are often disconnected - the desire to serve and the necessity to take social action to change systems that often give rise to the need for these services, said Gara LaMarche, President and…
Resource type: Speech
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Primary education groups unite to criticise 'shameful' cutbacks
Source: The Irish Times
THE CAMPAIGN against the education cuts gained further momentum yesterday as 10 groups involved in primary education united to criticise the "shameful and immoral" cutbacks. The National Alliance for Primary Education - an umbrella group representing school managers, principals, parents and teachers - described…
Resource type: News
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Seniors' fear of anti-social behaviour highlighted
Source: news-medical.net
Original Source The latest research highlighting older peoples' fear of anti-social behaviour will be presented today (Thursday 29 May) by the Changing Ageing Partnership (CAP) at the Institute of Governance, Queen's University Belfast. Carried out by Queen's PhD student Brendan Sturgeon, the ongoing research examines…
Resource type: News