Results List
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Atlantic Founding Chairman Grants Speed Medical Research and Collaboration on Several Continents
Source: Gara LaMarche
Since coming to Atlantic a few years ago, I’ve become aware, on an almost daily basis, of the enormous impact that this formerly anonymous foundation has had over the years across a range of areas and geographies. One part of the story that should be more widely…
Resource type: News
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From Bad to Worse: Senior Economic Insecurity on the Rise
Source: Demos and The Institute on Assets & Social Policy
Many older people struggle just to make ends meet and are falling into poverty at a troubling rate, according to this report. Using the Senior Financial Stability Index, the report found that economic insecurity among senior households increased by one-third to 36 per cent between…
Resource type: Research Report
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Social Justice and the Life Course
Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, addressed the National University of Ireland-Galway's Life Course Institute Seminar. He commented that Life Course projects are important because they are not just about “treating” disadvantage in old age or in youth, but are about breaking…
Resource type: Speech
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New social policy information service
Source: Roscommon Herald
Oireachtas Brief at http://www.oireachtasbrief.ie is a new free information service for social justice NGOs and community and voluntary sector activists interested in issues of poverty and social exclusion in the Oireachtas. The Oireachtas briefing service is provided by The Wheel and the European And Poverty…
Resource type: News
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Richard Boone and the Field Foundation: Beacons of Leadership for Social Justice Philanthropy
Source: Gara LaMarche
On a mellow California afternoon earlier this month, I drove a few hours up the coast from Los Angeles, where I’d been on a panel at the annual meeting of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, to spend some time with one of the most influential…
Resource type: News
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Bermuda Civil Society Project: Analysis of Social Service Agencies
Source: Root Cause
This report aims to increase understanding of the gaps and overlaps in services being provided to address social issues in Bermuda. It is part of the Bermuda Civil Society Project (BCSP), an independent research and data analysis initiative designed to clarify how nonprofit agencies and other…
Resource type: Research Report
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The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Embrace of a Social Justice Approach to Grantmaking
The story behind The Atlantic Philanthropies’ embrace of social justice is recounted in this speech by Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, at the Ford Foundation Convening on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace in February 2009 in Cairo, Egypt. It is bracing…
Resource type: Speech
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GW Health Workforce Institute Announces 2019 Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity
Source: The George Washington University
The George Washington University (GW) Health Workforce Institute, based at Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH), announces the 2019 fellows of the year-long Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity program. The program honors health sector professionals with a commitment to health equity and…
Resource type: News
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MOLISA Vice-Minister and colleagues from Viet Nam visit Melbourne
Source: Centre for International Mental Health
By Harry Minas. During the week of 23-27 August 2010 a 10-person delegation from Viet Nam’s Ministry of Labour Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) visited Melbourne to learn about the Victorian approach to provision of community mental health services, with a focus on arrangements for…
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The Strengthening of Atlantic’s Social Justice Mission: What It Means for Our Funding
Source: Gara LaMarche
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…
Resource type: News