Results List
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The Most Memorable Immigration Moments Of 2013
Source: Huffington Post
The Huffington Post's list of the most memorable immigration reform moments from last year featured efforts by several grantees, including United We Dream and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. Grantees the National Council of La Raza, America's Voice and the National Immigrant Justice Center were…
Resource type: News
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Taking Research and a Country to New Levels of Excellence
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="250"] Postgraduate research student Eric Farrell and Minister of Education and Science Mary Hanafin at Trinity College Dublin's Centre for Bioengineering. Photo: Trinity College Dublin[/caption] "Look, frankly you've got to invest in research," were Founding Chairman Chuck Feeney's words in 1998 to…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Righting Wrongs: Ending the Death Penalty
On 21 September 2011, Larry Cox, former executive director of Amnesty International USA, gathered his thoughts in a church in Georgia across from the prison where Troy Davis awaited execution. Atlantic support has played a key role in building momentum and making demonstrable progress in…
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…
Resource type: News
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Nursing and Dental Faculty and Students Engage in Oakland School-Based Clinics
Source: UCSF Science of Caring
Karen Duderstadt with students at James Madison Middle School (photo by Elisabeth Fall) By Martha RossTwo eighth-graders come running into the health clinic at James Madison Middle School in East Oakland. The boys have an emergency of sorts. They want to know if they can borrow stethoscopes. Standing at…
Resource type: News
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A National Call to Stop Using Out-of-School Suspensions
Source: NEA Today
By Tim WalkerStudents, educators, parents, and community leaders have launched a national call for a moratorium on out-of-school suspensions and for schools to adopt more constructive disciplinary policies that benefit students, classrooms and communities.The Solutions Not Suspensions initiative, announced last Tuesday at an event led by the Dignity…
Resource type: News
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“Positive Ageing” – Momentum Builds in Ireland
Source: Ageing Well Network
Atlantic grantees were active this week in building momentum in Ireland for adoption of progressive positive ageing strategies so that older people can live full lives. Ageing Well Network Conference and Major Report The New Agenda on Ageing conference, held by grantee the Ageing Well…
Resource type: News
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Treating the Primary Health Care System
Ca Lon with her daughter. Photo: Save the Children "The doctor saved my life," declared Ca Lon, recalling how, after delivering her first child, she experienced profuse bleeding that put her life at risk. Luckily, Ms. Lon was in a district hospital in Khanh Hoa…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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School-Based Health Services Help Students Develop to Their Full Potential
Oakland sixth-grader Carlos Mazariego took his first trip away from home when he travelled to Washington, D.C., for a national Elev8 youth advocacy trip. He and nine other students met with staff from the offices of California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer and advocated…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Transforming Palliative Care in Ireland
In February 2012, the staff and patients at St Patrick's Hospital Marymount Hospice in Cork moved from an old Victorian red brick building where the hospice had operated for 141 years to a new, best-in-class hospital that is the most advanced palliative care facility in…
Resource type: Grantee Story