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Elizabeth Garrett, First Female President of Cornell, Dies at 52
Source: The New York Times
The Atlantic Philanthropies express our profound sadness at the passing of Cornell University President Elizabeth Garrett. Beth’s leadership of Cornell, the alma mater of Atlantic’s Founding Chairman Chuck Feeney, was extraordinary, even in her short tenure, and will endure. As the largest single recipient of…
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Organizations Provide $8.7 Million to Launch a National Center to Improve Care for Complex Patients
Source: Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers
CAMDEN, N.J.—The Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers announced plans to establish a national center to improve care for high-need patients who experience poor outcomes despite extreme patterns of hospitalizations or emergency care. Inefficient and ineffective care of these patients has been identified as a driver…
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Atlantic’s Health Equity Champions
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Our grantees have led the way to fairer and better health care around the world. Meet some of them. [caption id="attachment_82595" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Photo: Magnum Foundation[/caption] One of the best things about working at The Atlantic Philanthropies is that we have the privilege of supporting extraordinary leaders and…
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The Community Foundation for Ireland Announces Winners of Philanthropist of the Year Awards 2016
Source: The Community Foundation for Ireland
Dublin, 21st January 2016: The Community Foundation for Ireland, one of the country’s leading philanthropic organisations, today announced the winners of the eighth annual Philanthropist of the Year awards at a luncheon hosted by Marian Finucane in Dublin. This year’s Philanthropist of the Year Award winners…
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After Spring Valley: Making Schools Safe and Supportive
Source: Tasha Tucker, Associate Programme Executive, Racial Equity at The Atlantic Philanthropies.
[caption id="attachment_54151" align="alignright" width="300"] The video shows a South Carolina school officer grabbing a high school student from her chair, knocking her to the floor and dragging her across the classroom.[/caption] As a native of South Carolina, I watched with complete horror and sadness the…
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A Foundation Confronts Its Final Priorities
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
In 2014, preparing for its final burst of expansive, long-vision grants, Atlantic drew its core programs to a close, downsized its staff, ramped up a final communications strategy, and became, in all respects, an institution in the final stages of work.The Atlantic Philanthropies, the largest institution…
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Shared Education Researcher Awarded Prestigious UNESCO Chair
Source: Queen's University Belfast
Professor Joanne Hughes will be awarded a prestigious UNESCO Chair in ‘Globalizing a Shared Education Model for Improving Relations in Divided Societies’. One of UNESCO's major roles in the UN system is to build capacity in developing countries and regions emerging from conflict. The Chair…
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Costs for Dementia Care Far Exceeding Other Diseases, Study Finds
Source: The New York Times
By Gina Kolata Three diseases, leading killers of Americans, often involve long periods of decline before death. Two of them — heart disease and cancer — usually require expensive drugs, surgeries and hospitalizations. The third, dementia, has no effective treatments to slow its course. So…
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Putting The Brakes On Global Road Crash Deaths: One Foundation’s Efforts
Source: Health Affairs Blog
By Kelly Henning As the United Nations (UN) meets this week to formally adopt the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it will set the stage for dealing with a worldwide scourge—road crashes and the growing rates of traffic deaths and injuries. Road crashes kill more…
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Feeney Awarded Inaugural International Philanthropy Medal
Source: Pro Bono Australia
One of Australia’s biggest philanthropic benefactors, Charles “Chuck” Feeney, is the inaugural recipient of a prestigious new award recognizing global generosity. Feeney, an international business leader and philanthropist who made his fortune worth billions and quietly gave it all away, is the first person to…
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