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NEW YORK, NY, 28 September 2011 – The Board of Directors of The Atlantic Philanthropies has announced the appointment of Christopher Oechsli as President and Chief Executive Officer, and his election to the Board, effective immediately.  Oechsli has served as Interim President and Chief Executive…

This report aims to increase understanding of the gaps and overlaps in services being provided to address social issues in Bermuda. It is part of the Bermuda Civil Society Project (BCSP), an independent research and data analysis initiative designed to clarify how nonprofit agencies and other…

When you have as much money as Bill Gates, you have to work damn hard to get rid of it. At least if you want to disposeof it wisely. So in May the Microsoft founder, whose fortune is estimated at $53 billion (¤40 billion), was…

Social justice management should be both more humane and tougher, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech at the Yale School of Management. I was at first flattered when I heard that students here at the Yale School of Management…

Archways and the Incredible Years programme are Atlantic Children & Youth Programme grantees via the Clondalkin Partnership. Archways, is today (Monday, 21st Sept) launching the first set of findings from the Incredible Years BASIC parent training programme for children aged 3-6yrs. The Incredible Years (IY)…

Original Source New America Media, AARP and the Urban Institute are Atlantic grantees. EthnicNEWz.org, News Report, Eduardo A. de Oliveira Hispanic workers 50-Plus are a vigorous group of “invisible boomers,” who could help employers solve projected labor shortfalls in the coming years, according to a…

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone…

Dr Penelope Brook has been named as the inaugural Director of the Atlantic Institute, following a successful career at the World Bank Group including as Ombudsman and as Country Director for Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. Earlier this year the Rhodes Trust joined with The Atlantic Philanthropies in…

By Christopher Oechsli and Darren WalkerCommentary: Realizing Mandela’s vision of a democratic future is a collective global responsibility.A statue of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first democratic president and Nobel Laureate is pictured outside the parliament. (RODGER BOSCH/AFP/Getty Images)Over a year after the death of Nelson…

  Joint statement from the Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies Cape Town – Today the Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies announced the launch of a joint fund to support organisations promoting and advancing constitutionalism in…