Results List
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Sustainable Models of Practice and Legacy Effects
Source: Queen's University Belfast
How can grantees sustain the impact of their work — especially after their funding ends? This series of research reports identifies sustainability practices and skills that have enabled Atlantic’s grantees in Northern Ireland to continue their work after the foundation ceased funding their operations. The reports draw on the experiences of organizations…
Resource type: Research Report
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KidsWell: Building a Legacy of Healthy Children
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
KidsWell, a national advocacy campaign, is dedicated to improving health outcomes for children through enhanced access to care. By providing timely health care reform information and coordinating over 30 children's health advocacy organizations, KidsWell is working to increase health insurance coverage for U.S. children and families.…
Resource type: Video
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Harvest Time for The Atlantic Philanthropies – 2011-2012: Focus, Exit, and Legacy
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
This report is the third in a series to chronicle the concluding years of The Atlantic Philanthropies, the largest foundation ever to decide to commit its entire endowment in a limited timeframe and then close its doors. It covers events that occurred from late 2010…
Resource type: Research Report
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Practicable Legacy Strategies, LLC
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Resource type: Grantee
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Atlantic Mourns the Loss of Public Health Pioneer and Pediatrician Fitzhugh Mullan
Source: Newswise
“We mourn the loss of Fitzhugh Mullan. He was a force for social justice and health equity who touched the lives of countless people. Fitz’s inspiring legacy lives on in the people, programs and policies he nurtured to help bring about fairer, healthier societies.” -…
Resource type: News
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Leaders of 2 Foundations Reflect on the Process of Giving It All Away
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
By Caroline Preston. Atlantic Philanthropies, a multibillion-dollar foundation that supports a variety of causes including progressive priorities such as changing the U.S. health-care system, and the Avi Chai Foundation, a $593-million fund dedicated to strengthening Judaism, might not seem to have all that much in…
Resource type: News
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Chuck Feeney, Cornell’s ‘third founder,’ dies at 92
Source: Cornell Chronicle
Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56, founding chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies and Cornell University’s most generous donor, died Oct. 9 in San Francisco. He was 92. Feeney, who quietly devoted his fortune to worldwide causes for decades, invested nearly $1 billion in Cornell through the…
Resource type: News
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A Global Response to Confront Rising Inequalities
Source: LSE Impact
On 1 June, LSE launched the Atlantic Fellows programme at the International Inequalities Institute. Co-Director Professor Mike Savage, the initial Academic Director of the Atlantic Fellows programme, discusses why the 20-year initiative — made possible by The Atlantic Philanthropies — is such a landmark moment.…
Resource type: News
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With Rewards Come Responsibilities: Raising the Bar by $14.8 Million
Source: Community Catalyst
By Diane Felicio, Ph.D., Development DirectorOn March 31, 2015, Community Catalyst announced a $14.8 million legacy award from The Atlantic Philanthropies to launch The Center for Consumer and Community Engagement in Health System Transformation (The Center). We were thrilled to celebrate the successful conclusion of what had been a…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic Awards Community Catalyst $14.8 Million to Strengthen the Voice of Consumers in Health System Transformation
Source: Community Catalyst
Legacy grant will support new Center for Consumer and Community Engagement Community Catalyst has been awarded a five-year $14.8 million legacy grant by The Atlantic Philanthropies to develop and promote a consumer agenda around “health system transformation,” fundamental changes in the health system that are…
Resource type: News
