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Messages of Hope and Solidarity for Gay South Africans Watch the videos of several Atlantic grantees who participated in the project.        Equal Education, It Gets Better  Gender DynamiX, It Gets Better  The Inner Circle, It Gets BetterOctober 11, Cape Town - A small group…

This report is a summary of 60 stakeholder submissions to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on Ireland and is compiled by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The report will assist members of the Human Rights Council in advance of Ireland's examination before the…

In May 2011, The Atlantic Philanthropies and The New Press hosted a discussion about racial profiling in the United States. Racial profiling stigmatises and criminalises people of colour from as early as their pre-teens, violates the rights and civil liberties of innocent people, and has…

NEW YORK, NY, June 03, 2011 – The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Board of Directors today announced that President and CEO Gara LaMarche has notified it of his intent not to seek a second five-year contract and step down from his position at the Foundation on September…

Paradigm-shifting elections don't shift paradigms if there aren't corresponding social movements for change.By VIVIEN LABATON AND GARA LAMARCHE  One thing we now know with certainty, more than two years into Barack Obama's presidency, is that change is an uphill battle. We're already defending hard-won gains on health care…

In October 2008, days before the U.S. presidential election, the American Constitution Society released “Human Rights at Home: A Domestic Policy Blueprint for the New Administration.” The Blueprint addresses “the gap between the promise and practice” of human rights in the United States and proposes…

Greater access to services and protection of socio-economic rights are at the heart of a successful Atlantic-funded programme in South Africa. And individual women are leading the effort to provide a vital social-security safety net in poor rural communities. Based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal,…

Gearing Up to Spend Down:  Observations on Foundation Sunsetting   In an event held on 27 January 2011 at The Atlantic Philanthropies in New York, Joel Fleishman, Professor of Law and Public Policy at Duke University, and Tony Proscio, a long-time philanthropic analyst and author, discussed their…

by Christopher HarrisLast summer, Alliance magazine editor Caroline Hartnell asked me if I thought it would be good to write another special feature on philanthropy and social justice. As she put it, was there something new to say? While there is still much to do to increase…

Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, discussed his concerns about a growing need for a stronger moral framework for philanthropy at the Starr Forum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.   Forty-five years ago, a young aide named Bill Moyers sat in the…