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By Peter BeattleAMERICANS donated a staggering $290.89 billion to charities last year, notwithstanding the lingering effects of the global financial crisis. This was after a huge decline during 2008 and 2009, when donations dropped to levels not seen since the 1970s.  Australia's most generous philanthropist…

Shikaya recently held Teaching the TRC, an interactive event for teachers, to support them in exposing a new generation of learners to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The producers of REwind invited Shikaya to create an event for teachers to run alongside the Cape…

The Defendant: Philanthropy at large. The Charge: Not fulfilling its mission of advancing the common good.The Sentence if Found Guilty: Loss of specialized tax status.Culminating the conference was Philanthropy on Trial, a courtroom "mockudrama" that sought to answer the question: Is philanthropy meeting its mission of…

THE BIG IDEA: Lower-class children are bombarded with obstacles to success, not the least of which are higher rates of asthma, poorer nutrition, and less than adequate access to medical care. “Kids aren’t going to learn and succeed in school if they aren’t feeling well,”…

We'd like to invite you to join two upcoming conversations about Giving While Living, one of them featuring Atlantic President and CEO, Gara LaMarche.While we know it isn’t an approach for everyone, Atlantic hopes to inspire individuals at widely varying levels of wealth to embrace…

Richard Trumka (AFL-CIO), Gerald McEntee (AFSCME), Justin Ruben (MoveOn.org), Dennis Van Roekel (NEA), Eliseo Medina (SEIU), Terry O'Neill (NOW), Donna Meltzer (Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities), Hilary Shelton (NAACP), Ed Coyle (Alliance for Retired Americans) Help Launch New Campaign To Protect Social Security. With press…

I don’t usually use this space for organisational announcements, but we have recently made three new appointments to Atlantic’s senior staff, who together bring enormous strengths to our mission and each of whom illustrates something important about where the foundation is going in its final…

Tributes to billionaire who's giving away bis fortune THE MUSEUM of Natural History in New York was a splendid setting for an extraordinary event on Tuesday night as more than 1,000 people paid tribute to one of the most remarkable human beings on the planet.…

Former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson delivered the third Ray Murphy Lecture hosted by Philanthropy Ireland in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin on 'The Role of Philanthropy in Tomorrow’s Ireland'. I am pleased to have been invited to give this year’s lecture in the…

The Atlantic Philanthropies’ approach to investment in South Africa and the country’s challenges in the face of declining international funding are discussed in this speech by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Inyathelo Annual Awards Ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa. It is…