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By Nicole RichardsChristopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO of US billionaire Chuck Feeney’s The Atlantic Philanthropies on why philanthropy is a force multiplier, the difference between ‘venture’ and ‘adventure’ philanthropy, and lessons learned from a limited life foundation.“It’s a real honour to talk about a…

USC Center on Philanthropy hosts Chris Oechsli, who covers his foundation’s plans to give away its moneyBy Matthew KredellChris Oechsli, president and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies (Photo/Tom Queally)A recent trend in philanthropy has people with wealth wanting to see their money make a significant…

In 2010, Ireland enacted some of the most far-reaching legal protections for gay and lesbian couples in the world. The case study describes the story of how this historic legislation gained passage in a largely Catholic country that just 16 years earlier had decriminalised homosexual…

Launch of the "5 Steps to Living Well with Dementia" project in South TipperarySouth Tipperary has been selected as the site for an innovative pilot project to develop and test new service models aiming to divert significant numbers of people with dementia from institutional care.…

By David E. ThigpenVice President of Policy and Strategic Advancement, Insight CenterElders are revered for their experience and wisdom in many cultures around the globe, but here in America where our civic, media and business cultures worship at the fountain of youth, elders are seen…

More than four out of five people in Northern Ireland have made no provision for their care in the future, while a full one-third of elderly people say their greatest fear is of having to move into a care home, because of worries about the…

By Sibongile NkosiWinner Education AwardEqual Education The Khayelitsha–based Equal Education organisation began its work early in 2008 after a group of senior education ­activists, led by Zackie Achmat and ­Gauteng's ­former ­minister for education, Mary ­Metcalfe, identified the lack of equal and quality education as a major…

This article from The Washington Post highlights several Atlantic Children & Youth programme grantees that are working at the local, state and national level to reform zero-tolerance disciplinary policies, which harm children by punishing any rule infraction, regardless of severity or circumstances, and often use…

By Alyssa BattistoniMany progressives are affluent and well-educated. Does their elite status stand in the way of a movement to fight attacks on the working class?Over the past few years, it’s become an article of faith among progressives that we’re living through a second Gilded…

By Kristen A. Graham and Dylan Purcell. The Philadelphia School District relies so heavily on suspensions that it excludes students from classes at a rate more than three times higher than the rest of the state. The district issued 46,552 out-of-school suspensions last year for a…