Results List
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Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute
$877,629
Resource type: Grantee
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Are We Seeing a New ‘Inequality Paradigm’ in Social Science?
Source: LSE British Policy and Politics Blog
Social scientists have long been concerned with inequality, yet the focus has often been on its theoretical and political aspects. This is now starting to change, writes Mike Savage, co-director of the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and Academic Director of the Atlantic Fellows…
Resource type: News
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Major Grant Expands Center for the Study of Inequality
Source: Cornell Chronicle
A recent, $10 million grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies to Cornell’s Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) will support new research and educational opportunities focused on the causes and consequences of inequality.
Resource type: News
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Marikana: Civil Society demands justice and truth
Source: Daily Maverick
The following statement was issued by a group of Atlantic's Reconciliation & Human Rights grantees in South Africa. Civil Society Statement Regarding the Killings at MarikanaWe are human rights organisations that seek to protect and promote the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (the Constitution).…
Resource type: News
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The Atlantic Philanthropies in South Africa: Some Reflections on the First 100 Days of the Zuma Government
Source: Gerald Kraak
This week Gerald Kraak, Programme Executive with Atlantic’s Reconciliation & Human Rights Programme and a veteran South African human rights advocate based in our Johannesburg office, shares his thoughts on the first 100 days of President Zuma’s administration. While international coverage of the April…
Resource type: News
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Taking Account of Race: A Philanthropic Imperative
Source: Gara LaMarche
President Obama’s election has unquestionably transformed discussions of race in the United States. At the recent Black Entertainment Television Honors Awards, Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina declared that now that an African-American man holds the most powerful position in the world, “Every child has…
Resource type: News
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Up Close: Blogging from South Africa
Source: Gara LaMarche and Jack Rosenthal
Night and a Day in QueenstownPosted by Gara LaMarche | 18 March 2011, South AfricaAs Jack has chronicled, we arrived in Queenstown, the final leg of our journey in the Eastern Cape, in the dark, around 7 p.m. This was a problem for two reasons. First, we’d…
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.
Resource type: News
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Letters to the Editor: Philanthropy and Racism
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Original Source To the Editor: Structural-racism training programs have helped hundreds of nonprofit organizations and community foundations, many of which are administered or operated by white people but primarily serve people of color, learn how to orient their theories of change from charity to empowerment…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic’s Culminating Grants: Cultivating Change
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
In his latest instalment in a series chronicling Atlantic’s limited life, Tony Proscio at the Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society conjures the image of a harvest to describe our work in Atlantic’s final years. The metaphor is apt. We want to…
Resource type: News
