Results List
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FOMACS: Audience Prize - Best Irish Short Documentary -The Memory Box
The Memory Box', produced by Atlantic Grantee Forum On Migrations and Communications, has won the audience prize for 'Best Irish Documentary Short' at the 'Stranger than Fiction' Film Festival, held at the Irish Film Institute September 13-16, 07. The film was also profiled on RTE,…
Resource type: News
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The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Investments in Higher Education
Source: Susan Parker
This report summarizes Atlantic’s $2 billion investment to strengthen higher education in the United States, Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Viet Nam, and Australia over the course of 35 years. The report found that Atlantic’s funding for a range of initiatives – buildings,…
Resource type: Research Report
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My Soul Has Grown Deep Like the Rivers
Source: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Closing Presentation of the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity (AFRE) Panel at The National Museum of African American History and Culture By Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Emily Hargroves Fisher Research Professor of Education Harvard University Director of The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Board What an extraordinary evening! Thank you to…
Resource type: News
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The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Grantmaking in the Cancer and Biomedical Fields: 1986-2015
This report summarizes The Atlantic Philanthropies’ investments totaling more than $1 billion between 1986-2015 to advance cancer research around the world. [caption id="attachment_76572" align="alignright" width="450"] Atlantic invested $32 million to help establish the Translational Research Center in Queensland, Australia. Professor Ian Frazer is TRI’s founding…
Resource type: Research Report
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Social Justice Journalism: Lessons from Health-e News
Source: Barbara Klugman
This report examines how quality advocacy journalism from Health-e News, a South African nonprofit news service focused on the country’s delivery of public health services, is helping advance the goal of achieving a healthy, equitable and just nation. Health-e News, which was founded in 1999, came to prominence…
Resource type: Research Report
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Value, Time, and Time-Limited Philanthropy
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society
Leaders of limited-life foundations often assert that spending all of their resources in a relatively short period gives them the ability to do more good, to produce more social value, than if they were to hold the same resources in a lasting endowment and disburse…
Resource type: Research Report
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Isivivana Centre, Khayelitsha — a home for activists campaigning for social justice
Source: Chronicle Digital
The new Isivivana Centre, a project of the Khayelitsha Youth and Community Centre Trust in South Africa, has its official opening Thursday, October 13. The center will house a collection of activist organizations, including many Atlantic grantees. Here are the nongovernmental organizations that operate out of the…
Resource type: Video
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Building for a Better World: Khayelitsha's New Activist Centre
Source: GroundUp
The new Isivivana Centre, a project of the Khayelitsha Youth and Community Centre Trust in South Africa, has its official opening Thursday, October 13. For more on the center, read the post below and see this video. Isivivana built to house organisations campaigning for social…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic Fellows: Advancing Fairer, Healthier, More Inclusive Societies
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
We’re empowering and connecting thousands of dynamic leaders across the globe to realize a better world.
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Providing for the University of the Western Cape to Reach New Levels of Excellence
School of Public Health. Photo: UWC In 2005, Founding Chairman Chuck Feeney decided that Atlantic would invest in a state-of-the-art Life Sciences building for the University of the Western Cape (UWC) after learning that researchers at this historically disadvantaged school were producing internationally recognised work…
Resource type: Grantee Story
