Results List
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Effective Advocacy: Lessons for Charities and Grant Makers
Source: Atlantic Philanthropies
On 30 November 2010, The Chronicle of Philanthropy held a live online discussion about advocacy campaigns - including the lessons learned from the Health Care for America Now campaign. The team that conducted an independent evaluation of the historic HCAN advocacy campaign, Dan Cramer of Grassroots Solutions and Tom Novick…
Resource type: News
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First Lady Announces $50 Million Fund for Nonprofits
Source: Philanthropy Project (AOL)
By SuYin So. First lady Michelle Obama announced today a match of $45 million and a separate $5 million initiative to support the Social Innovation Fund, a new competitive federal grants program designed to expand high-impact community-based nonprofits. The first lady was joined by grant…
Resource type: News
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Gara LaMarche – Grant Makers Urged to Take An Activist Role
At the Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy conference in Denver on April 25, 2010, Gara LaMarche urged young grantmakers to use their voice to advocate on behalf of the groups they support and issues they care about.
Resource type: Video
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Grant Makers Urged to Take Activist Role
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
By Caroline Preston. Foundations are not institutions set apart from society and its problems, and grant makers can and should be involved in the fight for a more just and equitable world, Gara LaMarche, president of Atlantic Philanthropies, and Benjamin Jealous, head of the NAACP,…
Resource type: News
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Grant Making with a Racial Equity Lens
Grantmakers explain why a focus on racial equity gives them a powerful "lens" for understanding and advancing their work in this GrantCraft guide. This report aims to provide grantmakers and foundation leaders with advice and tools on incorporating diversity and equity competencies in all aspects…
Resource type: News
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Harvest Time for the Atlantic Philanthropies: Reports Examine the Foundation’s Decisions and Lessons in Final Years
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
When Atlantic commissioned philanthropy consultant Tony Proscio in 2010, in conjunction with Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society, to write a series of reports charting the foundation’s final years, it was the largest foundation planning to put all its charitable assets to…
Resource type: Research Report
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Signs Off
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone…
Resource type: News
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The Atlantic Philanthropies: Republic of Ireland
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
This book tells the story of The Atlantic Philanthropies’ 30 years of grantmaking in the Republic of Ireland — investments totaling $1.3 billion to help breathe life into university research, support major advances in human rights, and underwrite joint efforts with government to improve services…
Resource type: Research Report
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The Atlantic Philanthropies: Australia
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
This book tells the story of Atlantic’s $368 million investments in Australia between 1998 and 2016 to grow the country’s biomedical research, bolster higher education, advance social equity and boost leadership capabilities in related sectors. [caption id="attachment_80446" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] In Brisbane, students visit a Translational…
Resource type: Research Report
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Make Big Plans: Cornell Olin Lecture
Atlantic President and CEO Christopher G. Oechsli joined Cornell University President Emeritus Frank H. T. Rhodes for a conversation about Atlantic’s founder, Chuck Feeney, and the vision and values behind the foundation’s grantmaking at Cornell and around the world. At the event, Hunter R. Rawlings…
Resource type: Speech