Results List
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Our On-Going Legacy
While Atlantic’s grant-making has ended, our legacy remains an active catalyst of change. Through the Atlantic Fellows programs, future generations of leaders and change-makers are given support and resources as they strive for the advancement of fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies. Our legacy also continues…
Resource type: Page
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Feeling the Pressures of a Limited Life
Source: The Intrepid Philanthropist
By Tony Proscio Leadership changes, strategic reviews, the closing of some programs and a fresh emphasis on others — all these are part of the normal cycle at just about any foundation. They may feel momentous at the time, but at most foundations, where endowments…
Resource type: News
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Family Foundations Consider Issue of Perpetuity vs Limited Life
Source: Advisor One
Most family foundations in the U.S. are set up to exist in perpetuity, but the number of limited-life foundations is increasing. The decision to continue for generations or spend down is an individual one, and there are valid reasons for each approach, according to Susan…
Resource type: News
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Ethnic Seniors Avoid End-of-Life Talk, but Want More Options
Source: The Immigrant Magazine
New America Media/Northwest Vietnamese News, News Feature, Julie Pham,Part 2 of 2. Read part 1 here.At the Vietnamese Senior Association (VSA) in Seattle, Marie Thu Le, 75, confessed that “When my time comes, I don’t want to be dependent on machines. I don’t want to be…
Resource type: News
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Limited Life, Unlimited Impact
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
[caption id="attachment_83351" align="aligncenter" width="361"] Atlantic Fellows at the Atlantic Institute.[/caption] September 14, 2021 Dear Friends, One year ago today, Chuck Feeney signed the documents to dissolve the 38-year-old Atlantic Foundation that he founded to distribute his entire business fortune to improve the lives of others. …
Resource type: News
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Value, Time, and Time-Limited Philanthropy
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society
Leaders of limited-life foundations often assert that spending all of their resources in a relatively short period gives them the ability to do more good, to produce more social value, than if they were to hold the same resources in a lasting endowment and disburse…
Resource type: Research Report
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Justices Bar Life Terms for Youths Who Haven’t Killed
Source: The New York Times
By Adam Liptak. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that juveniles who commit crimes in which no one is killed may not be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Five justices, in an opinion by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy,…
Resource type: News
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Mapping a Finite Highway
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
Almost a decade ago, Joel Fleishman, director of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy, got a call from a foundation that had recently decided to expend its endowment and complete its grantmaking within 12-15 years. The foundation was asking for his help in collecting and synthesizing…
Resource type: News
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A Day in a Life With Disability
Source: Genio Trust
Don Bailey, who navigates life in a wheelchair, spent most of his early life living in institutional care. When he left St. Joseph’s Hospital in Coole, Ireland at age twenty and moved to Dublin to work, he found the challenges of living on his own…
Resource type: News
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Susie O'Neill is seeing life differently
Source: The Courier Mail (Australia)
by Fiona Purdon OLYMPIC swimming gold medallist Susie O'Neill and her ophthalmologist husband Cliff Fairley will never forget the unbridled joy and emotion from eye surgery recipients in Vietnam. One grandmother's reaction especially left an impression after O'Neill and Fairley were part of a Fred…
Resource type: News
