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 Night and a Day in QueenstownPosted by Gara LaMarche  | 18 March 2011, South AfricaAs Jack has chronicled, we arrived in Queenstown, the final leg of our journey in the Eastern Cape, in the dark, around 7 p.m.  This was a problem for two reasons.  First, we’d…

In honour of International Women's Day, we pulled out this article from our Atlantic Currents archives in which Gara LaMarche reflects on the importance of supporting women to achieve social justice and describes some of the remarkable projects we're honoured to support.Supporting Initiatives By and For Women…

LAST FALL, The Post reported that an American history textbook used in Virginia schools contained the untrue statement that thousands of black soldiers had fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. A panel of historians then reviewed the book and found in it dozens of errors…

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…

In the yearlong campaign to pass health care reform in the United States, the bill was declared dead by the media over and over again. How did an unlikely coalition of activists win passage of this landmark reform? In this brief video highlight from The…

The Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR) Project is an Atlantic grantee. Inez McCormack, the well known trade union, women’s and human rights activist, returns to Northern Ireland today (Monday 15 March) following Meryl Streep’s portrayal of her life in a New York play…

Social justice management should be both more humane and tougher, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech at the Yale School of Management. I was at first flattered when I heard that students here at the Yale School of Management…

In their new book, “Half the Sky,” Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn assert that there can be no social or economic justice, or human rights progress around the world, that does not have women and girls at its core. It’s a…

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - New HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa are growing twice as quickly as antiretroviral (ARV) drugs are rolled out, despite a 39% hike in treatment access, UNAids said on Wednesday. The number of people receiving Aids treatments in the region, where two-thirds…

Civic Ventures is an Atlantic grantee. Skoll Foundation Invests in Leading Social Entrepreneurs Foundation commits total of $14,165,000 in new funding Civic Ventures is latest recipient of Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship Ashoka and ShoreCap II also receive Skoll investments PALO ALTO, Calif. Sept. 1,…