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[caption id="attachment_80468" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Guests attend a reception at the Cornell Tech campus Sept. 12, on the eve of the dedication.[/caption] By Joe Wilensky On Roosevelt Island Sept. 12, on the eve of the Cornell Tech campus dedication, excitement was already building. Guests gathered on…

Here you’ll find a collection of news and reports about Atlantic’s work in Australia, including evaluations that describe outcomes from different programs and lessons we learned from this work.

Atlantic mourns the death of Jack Rosenthal, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with The New York Times, and who later served as a Senior Fellow for Atlantic. In addition to his formal roles at Atlantic, Rosenthal is remembered as a mentor and friend. Over the course of his…

Kornbluth is one of 32 inaugural Atlantic Fellows at the Global Brain Health Institute, a collaboration between the Memory and Aging Center at UCSF and Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland.

Between 2004 and 2012, Atlantic invested $28 million to support the work of groups in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland advocating for policies and programs meant to advance the rights of children. As discussed in this summary, the work had three key objectives:…

[caption id="attachment_79793" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Mr Glanville's appointment was announced following Wominjeka, a Welcome to Country conducted early in the 2017 academic year.[/caption] Jason Glanville has been appointed as the foundation Program Director for the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity. The Atlantic Philanthropies launched the Atlantic Fellows…

The term “Giving While Living” is globally associated with Chuck Feeney, the Founding Chair of The Atlantic Philanthropies, a major international philanthropic foundation. He is the “anonymous donor”, a man who lives to give away billions.   [caption id="attachment_79484" align="alignnone" width="849"] Photo: Charles Feeney –…

By Diane Lebo Wallace [caption id="attachment_79432" align="alignright" width="460"] The Cornell Tradition awards 500 fellowships each year to Cornell students who demonstrate significant work experience, a commitment to campus and/or community service, and academic achievement. Photo: Lindsay France/University Photography[/caption] The Atlantic Philanthropies, the foundation established by entrepreneur…

As Atlantic winds up its work, we’re also laying the foundation for post-life communications. The big question: How will we have influence after the last check is written? By David Morse and Elizabeth Cahill At The Atlantic Philanthropies, our communications goals are simple and straightforward.…

Established to tackle dementia across the globe, the Global Brain Health Institute will further Robertson’s theory of cognitive reserve by training scholars of varying disciplines to “become leaders in devising strategies and policies for preventing dementia.”