Results List
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Cornell University – Institute for Social &Economic Research
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Resource type: Grantee
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New York University’s Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing to Receive AACN-GE Healthcare Pioneering Spirit Award
Source: The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University College of Nursing
New York University’s Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing to Receive AACN-GE Healthcare Pioneering Spirit Award at National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition, Washington, D.C. Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing identifies and shapes best practices for care of older adults Visionary Leadership Award from the…
Resource type: News
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Using the Law to Secure Social Change
Atlantic's support for strategic litigation has helped organizations in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa and the United States successfully pursue legal action resulting in—among other outcomes—racially biased criminal justice practices being declared unconstitutional, advancement of the rights of LGBT people, protection of civil liberties, and promotion of unity…
Resource type: Featured Topic
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It’s Time to Protect and Strengthen Social Security, Not Undermine It
Source: Gara LaMarche
Media coverage that followed the release of Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Co-Chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson’s draft proposal earlier this month was, for many, the first public announcement that the fate of their Social Security benefits was even up for debate. It…
Resource type: News
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Advancing Social Change Through Advocacy
Atlantic invested in advocacy to create opportunity and promote greater fairness and equity for all.
Resource type: Featured Topic
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Social and Economic Equity
This 20-year initiative will train diverse, multidisciplinary leaders working on solutions to historical barriers and behaviors that obstruct opportunity and underpin inequalities globally.
Resource type: Atlantic's Final Big Bets
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Research centre for social policy key part of NUlG EUR140m plan
Source: The Irish Times
NUI GALWAY and Atlantic Philanthropies are to open a €10 million lifecycle institute which will focus on research into key social policy areas. Plans for the multidisciplinary institute are due to be announced today, as part of the university’s €140 million strategic development programme. Atlantic…
Resource type: News
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University challenge
Source: Limerick Leader
It took many years of lobbying before Limerick got a third level institution. As UL celebrates 20 years of university status, key figures recall the joy and the struggle. Anne Sheridan reports. 28 May 2009 ON THURSDAY, June 1, 1989, the University of Limerick bill…
Resource type: News
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Announcing the 2010-2011 class of Health and Aging Policy Fellows
Source: Health and Aging Policy Fellows
The Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program is delighted to announce the 2010-2011 class of Health and Aging Policy Fellows. The goal of the Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program is to create a cadre of professional leaders who will serve as positive change agents…
Resource type: News
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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