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Since 1998, Founding Chairman grants totalling A$233 million ($212 million) have transformed biomedical research in Queensland, Australia. When current building projects are completed, we will have helped to build or expand 12 research institutions. Coupled with government and university investments of A$900 million ($819 million), the…

The research underlying the 1997 report by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child identified many issues related to the youth of Northern Ireland. A key finding was low awareness among children, families and caregivers of children’s legal rights and available services.…

Philanthropy News Digest's blog PhilanTopic named The Atlantic Philanthropies as an organization that has made policy advocacy a cornerstone of its philanthropic strategy in its post on why policy advocacy is one of the most important tools needed to drive social change: Policy advocacy -- a…

It wasn’t easy ten years ago when 19 people from diverse backgrounds in Northern Ireland came together to talk about setting up the Healing Through Remembering (HTR) Project.  Intense feelings and bitter memories of the conflict made it sometimes hard to be in the same…

When Lynne Winfield first came to Bermuda to work from England, she walked right into a secretarial job. She assumed she was the most qualified person for the job, and the words “white privilege” never crossed her mind.Today, she is outgoing president of the organisation…

The business of making social change often has to start from the ground up.  Sometimes literally! Since its inception, The Atlantic Philanthropies has invested over $1.5 billion in a number of capital projects to build the infrastructure that enables health to be advanced, children and…

by SEÁN FLYNNPROFILE: PROFESSOR DON BARRY, PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK (UL): The University of Limerick has been physically transformed but it still needs to move up the world rankings of leading universities - that's the next big challenge for its self-effacing president, Don BarryFOR SUCH A…

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…

By Tom Watson.  The pledge by Warren Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates, and other billionaires to give away large parts of their fortunes leaves a question: Where will the money go?There's a new solicitor general in this country and his name is Warren Buffett. Who…

HOUSTON — The Rev. John W. Bowie knows it is hard to sell the people in his neighborhood on the idea that they should support changing immigration laws to give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. His church lies in one of the oldest black…