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Fergus O'FerrallOPINION: Those who have power to change have not the will and those with the desire remain powerless‘Irish society is being challenged to little less than to remould itself.”This was stated by President Michael D Higgins when launching a book of essays entitled Towards a…

This New York Times article features two Atlantic ageing programme grantees — Civic Ventures and the Rose Community Foundation. Both organisations engage older people in encore careers and volunteer positions that combine personal meaning and social impact to solve society’s greatest problems. The Rose Community Foundation received a re-grant…

By Sam Scott.  Al and Marshae Rivera keep their home stocked with candy—all the better to stop their kids from venturing out to buy some themselves. No one knows better than they do that in East Oakland, Calif., even short trips can turn violent. Their…

OPINION: Unless the North agrees how to share its future, devolution will have failed and potential will rot, writes DUNCAN MORROW  EVEN AS the memory dims, the Irish peace process has the capacity to stir pride. A centuries-long Greek tragedy had an unexpected end. British-Irish relations…

By Tom Watson.  The pledge by Warren Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates, and other billionaires to give away large parts of their fortunes leaves a question: Where will the money go?There's a new solicitor general in this country and his name is Warren Buffett. Who…

By Mary Minihan.The Civil Partnership Bill is being examined by the Department of Finance to ensure homosexual couples who register their relationships will receive the same tax treatment as married couples.Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern has indicated the name of the proposed legislation will be…

The Atlantic Philanthropies’ approach to investment in South Africa and the country’s challenges in the face of declining international funding are discussed in this speech by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Inyathelo Annual Awards Ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa. It is…

Original Source KIPP and Teach for America are Atlantic grantees. Richard Barth, Chief Executive Officer, KIPP Foundation The Obama administration has thrown down the gauntlet to educators and legislators to fix "an education system that used to be...the best in the world, and no longer…

Original Source PHI is an Atlantic grantee. By Matt Cardin A new report commissioned by the National Institute on Aging and issued last month by the U.S. Census Bureau examines the demographic and socioeconomic effects of the unprecedented rate at which the world’s population is…

It is too easy to assume that donations from social entrepreneurs are driven by all the wrong motives, writes SARAH CAREY. Original Source THERE’S NOTHING that depresses me more than cynicism. I can be harsh, but it tends to come from anger or disappointment. Cynicism…