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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…

Vivien Labaton, Director of Strategic Programme Initiatives at The Atlantic Philanthropies, reflects on the recent passage of financial reform in the United States and the activities of Atlantic grantees to help bring it about.   The recent passage of the financial reform law—the Dodd-Frank Wall…

In the 2008 film Sin Nombre, the audience follows a young Honduran woman named Sayra as she winds her way through Mexico and into the United States in search of a better life. Her trip is lonely and dangerous, and through her eyes Sin Nombre…

Survey Finds Older Adults Suffering Due to Poor Coordination, Communication WASHINGTON, DC — April 8, 2010 — To ensure health reform works for those with the most at stake, the National Partnership for Women & Families, Community Catalyst and the National Health Law Program (NHeLP)…

“Health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.” I can’t tell you what a thrill it was to hear President Obama speak those words, a few hours ago, after signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.…

We wake up this morning surrounded by a new political world.The House vote approving health care reform was without doubt the most significant congressional vote in the last four decades. That's because it completely transformed the American political landscape. It certainly changed America's health care…

This Sunday, I will join 100,000 other supporters of comprehensive immigration reform in the United States – a cause to which Atlantic has been deeply committed since 2004 – in a march on Washington to demand that the U.S. Congress act this year. I hope…

Original Source America's Promise Alliance, the United Way, and the Huffington Post are Atlantic grantees. The Corporation for National and Community Service has announced that it will lead a national, twelve-week initiative developed by the Obama administration to stimulate economic growth and encourage community service…

New York, June 9, 2009 Vivien Labaton has been appointed Director of Strategic Programme Initatives at The Atlantic Philanthropies effective May 28, 2009. Labaton will work with Atlantic's four programs in seven countries to develop and implement their grantmaking strategies to achieve social justice and…

This case study describes how a group of large donors found an effective means to collaborate to make grants to small, grassroots organisations in South Africa through the Multi Agency Grant Initiative. The story of the Multi Agency Grants Initiative (MAGI) in South Africa (2006-2008)…