Results List
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Obama Administration Releases Resources for Schools, Colleges to Ensure Appropriate Use of School Resource Officers and Campus Police
Source: U.S. Department of Education
Contact: Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice released today new tools to improve school climates, ensure safety, and support student achievement in our nation's schools. To the extent a local decision is made to use school resource officers (SROs)…
Resource type: News
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Northern Ireland (United Kingdom): Implementing Joined-up Governance for a Common Purpose
Source: OECD Public Governance Reviews
An assessment conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) of Northern Ireland’s public reform agenda credits the Atlantic Philanthropies with helping the government in its ongoing efforts to to transform and reform its public services to better meet the needs of its citizens.…
Resource type: Research Report
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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
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Protecting Migrant and Refugee Rights in Northern Ireland
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Over the last three decades, The Atlantic Philanthropies has worked to build and sustain organizations at the forefront of advancing and protecting people’s human rights, including those providing advocacy and community development services for refugees and migrants. In Northern Ireland, the South Tyrone Empowerment Programme (STEP) offers advice, guidance,…
Resource type: Video
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Is Government Keeping Its Promises to Children?
Source: Children's Rights Alliance
The most vulnerable children in our society have been left behind, and the incoming government must make children’s rights an urgent priority. That’s according to the Children’s Rights Alliance, which launched its Report Card 2016 today. The Report Card is the eighth in the series,…
Resource type: News
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Enhancing Funders’ and Advocates’ Effectiveness: The Processes Shaping Collaborative Advocacy for Health System Accountability in South Africa
Source: The Foundation Review
This Foundation Review article, authored by by Barbara Klugman and Waasila Jassat, examines five Atlantic-supported advocacy efforts designed to improve access to quality health care for all South Africans and reduce health inequities across the country. [caption id="attachment_76646" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Atlantic supported five organizations that, individually and sometimes collaboratively, advocated…
Resource type: Research Report
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Risk with Vision: Placing Informed 'Big Bets'
Source: Resourcing Philanthropy
By Gillian Mitchell, Gabrielle Ritchie and Melanie Judge Philanthropy and risk are not natural bedfellows. For most of us philanthropy invokes an impression of measured resolution, gravity and thoughtfulness. Philanthropy makes considered interventions into areas of society that are not delivering on rights or opportunity…
Resource type: News
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Margin to Centre: How Philanthropy Can Help Guarantee Constitutional Rights in South Africa
Source: Resourcing Philanthropy
By Gillian Mitchell, Gabrielle Ritchie and Melanie Judge Resourcing Philanthropy is a new online platform that profiles philanthropic giving through the sharing of information, advice, tactics, tools and insights from grantmakers, non-profit leaders and philanthropists in South Africa. Drawing on the grantmaking experience and impact of The…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic’s Health Equity Champions
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Our grantees have led the way to fairer and better health care around the world. Meet some of them. [caption id="attachment_82595" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Photo: Magnum Foundation[/caption] One of the best things about working at The Atlantic Philanthropies is that we have the privilege of supporting extraordinary leaders and…
Resource type: News
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Vital Healthcare Capital Launches $30 Million Social Impact Loan Fund
Source: Vital Healthcare Capital
Vital Healthcare Capital Launches $30 Million Social Impact Loan Fund Supporting Better Care for People with Complex Needs in Low-Income Communities Financing For Providers Developing Better Care Models and Quality Frontline Healthcare Jobs New York, NY — Vital Healthcare Capital (V-Cap), a social impact lender, today announced a…
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