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Commissioned by the Civic Participation Action Fund (CPAF), this report synthesizes the findings and the lessons learned from case studies of Cook County, Illinois, and Harris County, Texas, describing district attorney (DA) election campaigns and post-election work to hold the newly elected DAs accountable. These…

Recognizing that Latino voter turnout is lower than population at large, the Civic Participation Action Fund (CPAF) commissioned Topos to conduct ethnographic research to uncover cultural understandings of voting and civic participation to develop strategies tailored to Latinos’ needs and concerns. Rather than apathy, Topos…

As Atlantic wraps up its work, including completing our grantmaking this year, one of our final acts is to invest in a community of emerging leaders whose efforts to build a better world will outlast the foundation.

This post is an excerpt from Kavitha Mediratta's and M. Karega Rausch's introduction to Inequality in School Discipline, a new book that fills a critical void by providing the most current and authoritative information on what is known about disciplinary disparities.

First Minister the Rt. Hon. Peter D. Robinson MLA and the deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness MLA have announced a £58 million investment to deliver improved services for parents, shared education and support for people with dementia and their carers. The total value of the…

By Robert K. Ross, M.D., President and CEO of The California Endowment, and Tonya Allen, President and CEO of the Skillman Foundation, who are co-chairs of the Executives' Alliance to Expand Opportunities for Boys and Men of Color -- a growing network of nearly 40 national, regional…

From 2004-2013, Atlantic funded four organisations working to improve human rights, visibility, and access to services for LGBT people in the Republic of Ireland. This video looks at a few examples of these grantees' successes, including a landmark 2010 civil partnership law, a scheduled public referendum…

Crusader Barbara Young helped nannies get better pay and benefits. Her new goal: better working conditions for aides to the elderly.When is the last time you worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for total pay of $225? My guess is probably never.But…

This primer, funded by Atlantic and the Open Society Foundation, presents extensive statistics about the troubling police practice of stopping, questioning, and frisking pedestrians in New York City.The NumbersData show stops tend to be concentrated in a handful of police precincts and that the vast…

"Maryland today becomes the 18th state to abolish the death penalty....In doing so it joins every other western country and almost every country on the planet.....But most importantly, today, Maryland pushes America towards abolishing the death penalty and rejoining its rightful place as a global…