Results List
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Here’s Why Funders Should Support Advocacy
Source: Gillian Mitchell, Gabrielle Ritchie and Melanie Judge
[caption id="attachment_75843" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Photo: Treatment Action Campaign[/caption] Advocacy is a central mechanism for driving social change. As Mark Heywood, Executive Director of Section 27 says: “Advocacy is not a handful of individuals shouting from the rooftops. It is about effective community education, community mobilisation…
Resource type: News
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New $25m Fund for SA civil society groups working to advance constitutionalism
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Joint statement from the Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies Cape Town – Today the Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies announced the launch of a joint fund to support organisations promoting and advancing constitutionalism in…
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Atlantic Makes Grants of €14.7m to Improve Care for People with Dementia
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
The Atlantic Philanthropies is making new grants totaling €14.7 million to improve the care and wellbeing of people living with dementia in the Republic of Ireland. These grants are the subject of ongoing discussions with the Government. The grants are being made to: The Health…
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Schools Must Abandon Zero-Tolerance Discipline
Source: Education Week
By Kavitha MedirattaIn 2007, the high school graduation rate in Baltimore, a city where the school system serves 85,000 mostly African-American and low-income students, was an abysmal 34 percent. Then Andrés A. Alonso, the chief executive for the city’s schools, took action. He revised the code…
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Providing for the University of the Western Cape to Reach New Levels of Excellence
School of Public Health. Photo: UWC In 2005, Founding Chairman Chuck Feeney decided that Atlantic would invest in a state-of-the-art Life Sciences building for the University of the Western Cape (UWC) after learning that researchers at this historically disadvantaged school were producing internationally recognised work…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Making the Most of Our Final Years – An Update
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
We are now squarely on the trajectory that our founder, Chuck Feeney, and Atlantic’s Board of Directors established for us in 2002: to conclude all of our grantmaking by 2016. The objective was, and continues to be, to solve urgent and major problems – with…
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Health Activism: The Struggle Continues
Source: Daily Maverick
By Rebecca DavisThe Ministry of Health is often cited as one of the government departments where effective leadership in recent years has made a real, positive impact. But in a public discussion on Sunday evening in Cape Town, a number of South African health experts…
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Just and Fair Schools Fund Newsletter: August 2012
Source: Just and Fair Schools Fund
The Just and Fair Schools Fund (JFSF) supports grassroots organizing initiatives that work to eliminate harsh school discipline policies and practices - and that uphold the right to education for all youth. Our newsletter shares updates on parent-, youth-, and congregation-led victories, partner spotlights, news,…
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Shaping History Through Support for Health and Human Rights
Nokhwezi Hoboyi. Photo: Samantha Reinders, TAC After losing two children to AIDS, Nokhwezi Hoboyi stopped her treatment and landed in a South African hospice with tuberculosis. "A nurse told me there was life after testing positive for HIV," Ms. Hoboyi said. Most importantly, she met…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Peter Smitham to Chair The Atlantic Philanthropies Board, Succeeding Fritz Schwarz
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
HAMILTON, BERMUDA, June 28, 2011 – The Board of Directors of The Atlantic Philanthropies announced today that Frederick A.O. “Fritz” Schwarz has chosen not to seek a further term as Board Chair, a role he has held since June 2008. Peter Smitham was elected to…
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