Results List
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Advocacy – Often the Most Direct Route to Social Change
Source: Gara LaMarche
Supporting advocates who work to persuade members of the U.S. Congress of the necessity of allocating more federal money for children’s health programmes... Backing public interest lawyers whose arguments convince the U.S. Supreme Court that capital punishment for youth is unconstitutional.... Convincing lawmakers to…
Resource type: News
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As We Enter 2008, a Look Back Shows Policy Gains for Atlantic Grantees
Source: Gara LaMarche
The end of one year and the start of the next is a traditional time for looking both back and forward, and a good time to check in with readers of this column – an unusual experiment in philanthropy that we started in July, a…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic Philanthropies archives open with first batch of files
Source: Cornell Chronicle
[caption id="attachment_83040" align="aligncenter" width="546"] Phoebe Kowalewski, curator of The Atlantic Philanthropies archives, walks the aisles of the Library Annex, where the foundation’s physical archival materials are kept.[/caption] By Jose Beduya A treasure trove for scholars of philanthropy and social change is now available at Cornell…
Resource type: News
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Funding in Conflict-Affected Environments
Source: The Social Change Initiative
This guide explores how can funders can support activities and initiatives designed to end conflicts and promote peacebuilding. While many foundations are understandably wary about intervening in conflicts, Funding in Conflicted-Environments offers guidance on how to help mitigate some of those concerns. Included are the…
Resource type: Research Report
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Olin Lecture Reflects on Philanthropy of Chuck Feeney '56
Source: Cornell Chronicle
[caption id="attachment_77570" align="alignright" width="459"] Christopher G. Oechsli, foreground, speaks with President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes, center, and interim President Hunter Rawlings during the 2016 Olin Lecture in Bailey Hall. Photo: Lindsay France/University Photography[/caption] By Blaine Friedlander In the Olin Lecture – a Reunion weekend highlight…
Resource type: News
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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…
Resource type: News
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Viable Corporate Services
$442,379
Resource type: Grantee
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Dementia NI
$485,032
Resource type: Grantee
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The Social Change Initiative
$21,687,493
Resource type: Grantee
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Department of Education NI
$16,384,409
Resource type: Grantee
