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Introducing the 2006 Social Capitalist Award winners--25 entrepreneurs solving the world's toughest problems with creativity, ingenuity, and passion. Because they can't stand a vacuum. The entrepreneurial mind abhors a vacuum. Market failures, unmet demand, even the maddening lure of a blank napkin--all beckon as explicit…

By Beverley Skeggs [caption id="attachment_82487" align="alignright" width="205"] Professor Skeggs[/caption] Professor Beverley Skeggs directs the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity Program at the International Inequalities Institute of the  London School of Economics and Political Science   I was upset and angry about my mother’s…

By Trevor Grigg The scholarship programme and its objectives Over the period 2000 to 2006, The Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) funded The University of Queensland's Vietnam Coursework Masters and Doctoral Development Scholarship Programs, with grants totalling AUD 17 million. The primary objective of the programmes was:…

It’s a Thursday morning in mid- December and Betsye Steele, principal of Ralph J. Bunche High School, is holding her weekly new-student orientation session. She sits at the small table in her office talking with Antwon, the school’s newest student, and his grandfather. As they…

This month Harriett and I attended the Atlantic Philanthropies’ Laying Foundations for Change panel, hosted by Koda Capital. Peter Hoj and Peter Coaldrake, Vice Chancellors of UQ and QUT respectively, Allan English, the 2014 Philanthropy Leader of the Year, and Chris Oechsli, the President and CEO of Atlantic…

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Madge Murphy in a class devoted to developing an understanding of aging at Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing. The students participate in the LAMP (Local Asset Mapping Project), which seeks to create a new paradigm for health care by focusing on…

Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, delivered this speech at an international conference held by the Robert Bosch Stiftung in Berlin: The Era of Citizens – How Civil Society and Foundations are Shaping the Future. The conference was opened by German…

By Fania Davis, YES! MagazineAs executive director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, Fania Davis sees programs like hers helping to shut down the school-to-prison pipeline.'Punitive justice asks only what rule of law was broken, who did it, and how they should be punished. It…

Vulnerable are being pushed away from central decision-making, says foundation memberAtlantic Philanthropies Ireand’s Martin O’Brien will deliver the Dave Ellis lecture – in memory of the activist who worked with community groups in Dublin for more than 20 years – at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin…

By Joseph Vargas For many Americans, Cuba is perceived as a forbidden island associated with Soviet era revolutionary leaders mixed with distant memories of cold war politics that culminated in the Cuban missile crises of the 1960’s.  Although the country maintains its Communist ideology, Cuba has…