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In the 2008 film Sin Nombre, the audience follows a young Honduran woman named Sayra as she winds her way through Mexico and into the United States in search of a better life. Her trip is lonely and dangerous, and through her eyes Sin Nombre…

Nobayeni Dladla has been appointed Country Director for South Africa at The Atlantic Philanthropies effective September 1, Senior Vice President Marcia Smith announced today.  Dladla will be based in Atlantic’s Johannesburg office.  In this newly created role, Dladla will leverage Atlantic’s activities and investments to…

The Living with Dementia programme seeks to impact on policy development and contribute to the design of best practice models for those affected by dementia. Dublin,  Thursday, April 29th, 2010 –  ‘Living with Dementia’ is a psychological and social research programme in dementia care that…

Australia’s Prime Minister praises biomedical research at the University of Queensland as an example of what can be achieved when government, universities and philanthropy work together in partnership.It is good to be back home; it's good to be back in Brisbane; good to be back…

Several of the staff of the Hue Central Hospital were kind enough to come to work last Sunday morning to give my Atlantic colleagues and me a tour of what has become a world-class facility in the ten years since our Founding Chairman, Chuck Feeney,…

Calamus Gives One of the Largest Grants in Its History to SAGE. CORRECTION: Please note the release distributed on Tuesday, December 9th was in error. The Atlantic Philanthropies grant to SAGE was not the Foundation's first gift to an LGBT organization. Please use the corrected…

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…

The road to lasting change in the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people begins with the courage to ask the right questions, said Le Nhan Phuong, Programme Director of the Population Health Programme at The Atlantic Philanthropies, in this speech at the International Conference on…

The Purpose Prize and Civic Ventures are Atlantic grantees. SAN FRANCISCO - This year's winners of The Purpose Prize, a $100,000 award for social innovators in their encore careers, are using a new stage of life to do extraordinary things to improve life for millions…

Arising out of a Collaboration Initiative begun last May, on October 2, 2009, the Chairs and CEOs of five of Ireland’s age sector NGOs came together at the offices of The Atlantic Philanthropies in Dublin to sign a Memorandum of Understanding. The five organizations are…