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Our grantees have led the way to fairer and better health care around the world. Meet some of them. [caption id="attachment_82595" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Photo: Magnum Foundation[/caption] One of the best things about working at The Atlantic Philanthropies is that we have the privilege of supporting extraordinary leaders and…

For more than two decades Atlantic has invested in programs to strengthen the quality of our lives, with a major emphasis on addressing needs arising from a worldwide population living longer than ever. Part of that work has included support for initiatives to leverage the…

Atlantic’s Founding Chairman Charles "Chuck" Feeney became the 59th signatory of the Giving Pledge, an effort conceived by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffet to invite the wealthiest individuals and families in America to commit to giving the majority of their wealth to philanthropy. …

I’ve just returned from Denver, Colorado, where the annual conference of the Council on Foundations ended Tuesday.  A significant theme of the conference this year, which Atlantic helped to organise, was what foundations can do to advance social justice.  I was honoured to moderate a…

Chuck Feeney's 'historic act of extraordinary generosity' financed transformational change.

By Dianne McAlpine A generous grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies, a US-based limited-life foundation, has given rise to a South African organisation dedicated to reducing the social inequalities that condemn large segments of the population to poor health. More than two decades after the end…

By Tasha Tucker and Ben Kerman Many philanthropic institutions require prospective or current grantees to match all or part of the value of a grant in order to secure funding. Foundations use matching contingencies to recruit funding partners, build grantee capacity to raise funds, replicate program…

Grants will support and expand pathways to healthcare careers in Oakland The Atlantic Philanthropies and The California Endowment today announced $12.2 million in grants to the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) and Alameda Health Care Services Agency (HCSA) to support and expand health career pathways…

It wasn’t easy ten years ago when 19 people from diverse backgrounds in Northern Ireland came together to talk about setting up the Healing Through Remembering (HTR) Project.  Intense feelings and bitter memories of the conflict made it sometimes hard to be in the same…

Nursing in South Africa has long been neglected, in part because of the turmoil brought about by apartheid. This lack of attention has had dire implications for the vast majority of South Africans who rely on the public health system for health care. From 2006-2012,…