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By Mary Minihan.ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES has given €630,000 to a new initiative aimed at encouraging people to engage with the political system through a national citizens’ assembly. The chairman of We The Citizens, Fiach Mac Conghail, who is also director of the Abbey Theatre, said most…

NATIONAL CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY TO BE HELD IN JUNEWe the Citizens, an independent national initiative aimed at showing how Ireland could benefit from citizens coming together in new forms of public decision-making, has been launched in Dublin. The objective is to help to renew democracy and…

“Oh, I really feel we’ve been led up the garden path…We are the people that worked.  We put this country on its feet, and we’re the people that are being hit every which way.” - Diane, age 81, in Dublin, Ireland Across many of the geographies…

Original Source BuaNews (Tshwane) By Nthambeleni Gabara Pretoria There is a need to look at the human rights discourse and the African belief system in a complementary light, according to the National Heritage Council (NHC). Speaking at the two-day national debate to address African cultural…

Elder Economic Security Initiative blog WASHINGTON, D.C. Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) announces the expansion of its Elder Economic Security Initiative™ program to Michigan, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Minnesota. The Initiative is a national campaign to ensure that all older Americans are able to age…

Keynote speech by Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, given at the Annual Conference of Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois.  This is an extraordinary moment to gather and reflect, as we have planned to do…

FRANNY RABKINSA’s political tumult loomed large at Liliesleaf Farm in Johannesburg on Thursday as a group of business, legal and intellectual leaders came together to form a new civil society body to promote the constitution and guard against what the Congress of South African Trade…

By Allison Brown and Kavitha Mediratta Representatives from Open Society Foundations and The Atlantic Philanthropies discuss philanthropy’s role in school discipline reform. [caption id="attachment_54365" align="alignright" width="190"] This article was originally published in VUE magazine.Download the PDF >VUE website >[/caption] The Atlantic Philanthropies funded the work of…

An experiment to ignite citizen involvement in democracy in Ireland found striking shifts in how participants feel about their ability to influence politics, according to a report by We the Citizens. A pilot project tested whether a more participatory form of democracy could work in…