Results List
-
Lessons Learned: the “Harvest Time” reports
[caption id="attachment_83415" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Atlantic staff in 2016[/caption] In 2010, Atlantic commissioned philanthropy consultant Tony Proscio, in conjunction with Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society, to write a series of reports charting the final years of the foundation, the largest endowed institution…
Resource type: Page
-
Health Equity: Cuba, South Africa, the United States, and Viet Nam
[caption id="attachment_58419" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Yarol Yamel, 3, is examined by Dr. Janisleydis Rosado for bronchial asthma at walk-in clinic Number 15, La Santa Fe, Isle of Youth.[/caption] Cuba Although Cuba’s health care system is considered to be one of the best in the world, in…
Resource type: Page
-
Why Were You Anonymous? Why Did You Go Public?
Atlantic founder Chuck Feeney, a modest man who shunned the spotlight, chose to keep his foundation’s operations anonymous in its early days. He wanted to be able to meet people, talk, learn and act without attracting attention or recognition.
Resource type: Big Question
-
Why Did Atlantic Decide to Limit Its Life?
Atlantic founder Chuck Feeney’s belief in Giving While Living—that people of great wealth should put their money to the service of humanity now—inspired the board to limit the foundation’s life to a fixed number of years. The determination to complete all grantmaking at the end…
Resource type: Big Question
-
Why Did You Invest in the Regions That You Did?
Our founder, Chuck Feeney, had close connections to the regions where Atlantic made its major investments. In each, he and Atlantic saw opportunity to make a lasting difference within his lifetime.
Resource type: Big Question
-
Newsmakers: Richard Barth, Chief Executive Officer, KIPP Foundation
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source KIPP and Teach for America are Atlantic grantees. Richard Barth, Chief Executive Officer, KIPP Foundation The Obama administration has thrown down the gauntlet to educators and legislators to fix "an education system that used to be...the best in the world, and no longer…
Resource type: News
-
The Atlantic Fellows
[caption id="attachment_83347" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Senior Fellows convening, hosted by the Atlantic Institute at Rhodes House, Oxford, in February 2018. Credit: Atlantic Institute.[/caption] “Use your wealth to help people. Use your wealth to create institutions to help people. When it comes down to it, it’s always…
Resource type: Page
-
Our Legacy: the Atlantic Fellows
Although our doors will close at the end of 2020, the legacy of our commitment to racial and health equity will continue through the Atlantic Fellows programs. Established in 2015 as one of our final “Big Bets”, the Atlantic Fellows programs are a global network…
Resource type: Page
-
Charities' gold mine: 'giving while living';
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Original Source by Meredith May Several times a year, Heidi Hess and James Rucker of San Francisco go online, PayPal style, and redirect their wealth to their favorite charities. They are tactical philanthropists - part of a growing group of socially conscious givers in the…
Resource type: News
-
Why on Earth Would a Foundation Try to Get Rid of All of Its Money?
Source: Gara LaMarche
The aspect of The Atlantic Philanthropies in which people have the most interest is not that we are one of the largest foundations in the world – in fact, the largest private funder in the countries in which we operate, outside of the U.S. –…
Resource type: News
