Results List
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Feeling the Pressures of a Limited Life
Source: The Intrepid Philanthropist
By Tony Proscio Leadership changes, strategic reviews, the closing of some programs and a fresh emphasis on others — all these are part of the normal cycle at just about any foundation. They may feel momentous at the time, but at most foundations, where endowments…
Resource type: News
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Enriching a University to Strengthen Learning and Research
[caption id="attachment_10694" align="alignright" width="250"] Students attend 2012 commencement ceremony. Photo: Cornell University[/caption] The nearly $1 billion investment in Cornell University made by Atlantic and its Founding Chairman has enriched the experience of students and faculty on campus; strengthened its academics, research and athletics; and enabled…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Making the Most of Our Final Years – An Update
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
We are now squarely on the trajectory that our founder, Chuck Feeney, and Atlantic’s Board of Directors established for us in 2002: to conclude all of our grantmaking by 2016. The objective was, and continues to be, to solve urgent and major problems – with…
Resource type: News
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Evaluation of Programme to Protect Children from Domestic Violence
Source: University of Lincoln
Children who experience domestic abuse can be forgotten victims. Mayo Children's Initiative (MCI Ireland), a programme in rural Ireland, made "spectacular progress" in reaching these children and is a model for other countries to follow, according to the lead researcher of an evaluation carried out…
Resource type: Research Report
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Interview - Christopher Oechsli
Source: Alliance magazine
The Atlantic Philanthropies is coming to the end of its life as a grantmaking foundation. It is due to complete its grantmaking by 2016 and close its doors by 2020 – the largest foundation ever to spend out. Caroline Hartnell talked to Atlantic president and…
Resource type: News
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LGBT youth, advocates oppose more cops in Chicago public schools
Source: Chicago Phoenix
Parents and students gathered at Chicago Public Schools headquarters Monday to demand that the school system use proposed federal funding as part of President Barack Obama’s plan to reduce gun violence for counselors instead of adding armed police officers.The overuse of school police has resulted…
Resource type: News
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Chuck Feeney: The Billionaire Who Is Trying To Go Broke
Source: Forbes
This story appears in the October 8th issue of Forbes magazine -- "Making it Big, Giving it Big" -- the first Forbes 400 devoted entirely to philanthropy.By Steven BertoniOn a cool summer afternoon at Dublin’s Heuston Station, Chuck Feeney, 81, gingerly stepped off a train on…
Resource type: News
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A Swift and Simple Solution
Source: The Royal Gazette
Most Bermudians are grateful for the fact that we live in a pluralist, democratic society.We elect successive governments with the support of the majority of the people. We hold those governments to account every five years. We boast a whole chapter on fundamental rights in…
Resource type: News
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Stephen McConnell Appointed Country Director for the United States at The Atlantic Philanthropies
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
NEW YORK, NY, 21 August 2012 –The Atlantic Philanthropies have appointed Stephen McConnell to the newly created position of Country Director for the United States, effective immediately. In this position, McConnell will oversee all of Atlantic’s U.S. programmes — including work focused on Ageing, Children &…
Resource type: News
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Philanthropist Wants to Be Rid of His Last $1.5 Billion
Source: The New York Times
By JIM DWYERAcross from a television set with the obsolete girth of a model bought 20 years ago, beneath the grandchildren’s crayon artwork taped to the wall, to the left of an abandoned hula hoop, Charles F. Feeney sits in an armchair and explains how…
Resource type: News