Results List
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Supporting Legal Action
Source: Alliance Magazine
Laws provide the skeletal frame of a social order but while laws in theory and by tradition serve the cause of justice, they can easily be, and often are, used to reinforce a repressive regime. Here James A. Goldston and Martin O’Brien reflect on the…
Resource type: News
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Preparing for Life at Age 9
Source: UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy
Preparing for Life (PFL) is a prevention and early intervention programme designed to promote children’s school readiness by working with families from pregnancy until their children start school. Results from an extensive randomised controlled trial evaluation showed that PFL was effective at improving the children’s…
Resource type: Evaluation
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Cicely Saunders International
$350,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Narrative 4, Inc
$350,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Atlantic Celebrates the Life and Music of Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
[atlpvideo src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ofe6nqFphgk" height="388" width="560"]In this 2011 video, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and students at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance reflect on the Academy, music and their relationship with Atlantic's founder Chuck Feeney.[/atlpvideo] We share this video in celebration of the life of Irish…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health
Source: Global Brain Health Institute
The Atlantic Fellows program at the Global Brain Health Institute provides innovative training in brain health, leadership, and dementia prevention to a broad array of promising leaders from various professions, including medicine, science, business, law, journalism, and the arts. Through their work, Fellows are expected…
Resource type: Video
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Design & Dignity: How Irish Hospitals are Transforming Spaces for Patients and Families at the End of Life
Source: Susan Parker
This case study describes how Irish hospitals are creating quiet and peaceful spaces for family members when they are coping with difficult diagnoses or the death of loved ones. The Design & Dignity program was established by the Irish Hospice Foundation and the Health Service…
Resource type: Case Study
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More On Time, Value, and Time Limits
Source: Intrepid Philanthropist
By Tony Proscio A while ago, we collected some thoughts from careful observers of philanthropy — people who either make decisions about how to use charitable wealth or advise those who do — on the value of time-limited giving. Specifically, we asked: Under what conditions…
Resource type: News
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The Former Dean of Research at the Forefront of Brain Health Worldwide
Source: The University Times
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.”
Resource type: News
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The Nurture Programme
Source: Health Service Executive
The Nurture Programme – Infant Health and Wellbeing is designed to improve the information and professional supports that the Health Service Executive (HSE) provides to parents during pregnancy and the first three years of their baby’s life. It is a partnership between the HSE, the…
Resource type: Video
