Results List
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Effective Advocacy: Lessons for Charities and Grant Makers
Source: Atlantic Philanthropies
On 30 November 2010, The Chronicle of Philanthropy held a live online discussion about advocacy campaigns - including the lessons learned from the Health Care for America Now campaign. The team that conducted an independent evaluation of the historic HCAN advocacy campaign, Dan Cramer of Grassroots Solutions and Tom Novick…
Resource type: News
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Young Grant Makers Urged to Make Bigger and Riskier Grants
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
By Caroline Preston. Nonprofit groups say it takes them 25 to 30 hours to apply for a grant. Yet most of the grants being awarded are probably $15,000 or less. That's much of what's wrong with philanthropy today, Bill Somerville, founder of Philanthropic Ventures Foundation,…
Resource type: News
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Guns and Roses: Advocacy in an Emerging Democracy
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
This publication is an attempt to distil the learnings from three important books that were published during 2009 and which provide valuable insights into doing advocacy in an emerging constitutional democracy in South Africa. Written by Marian Nell & Janet Shapiro for The Atlantic Philanthropies…
Resource type: Case Study
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Too Close for Comfort? Obama and the Foundations
Foundations should take a stance of engaged and critical discomfort with government no matter who is in charge, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech at the Hudson Institute-Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center. I am always glad to take…
Resource type: Speech
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Sharing the Lessons of a Foundation Spend-Out
Source: onPhilanthropy
By: Susan Carey Dempsey The idea of spending down the resources of major philanthropic foundations has enthusiastic advocates, including founders who wish to make a difference in their own lifetimes, and activists who place a higher value on addressing current needs than preserving endowments in…
Resource type: News
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The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Embrace of a Social Justice Approach to Grantmaking
The story behind The Atlantic Philanthropies’ embrace of social justice is recounted in this speech by Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, at the Ford Foundation Convening on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace in February 2009 in Cairo, Egypt. It is bracing…
Resource type: Speech
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Awards Grant to CACE
Source: Center for Afterschool and Community Education at Foundations
$1.9 Million Grant to Improve Afterschool Professional Development and ProgramsNEWS RELEASE The Atlantic Philanthropies Awards Foundations' Center for Afterschool and Community Education 1.9 Million Grant to Improve Afterschool Professional Development and ProgramsMoorestown, NJ, January 9, 2006 CACE, the Center for Afterschool and Community Education at…
Resource type: News
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Island of Ireland emerging as the leader in applications of prevention science to policy and practice
Source: Prevention Action
Original Source The island of Ireland is emerging as a point of focus for breakthroughs in applications of prevention science to policy and practice. Over 25 innovative projects from across the island were showcased at a conference convened by the Office for the Minister of…
Resource type: News
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Value, Time, and Time-Limited Philanthropy
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society
Leaders of limited-life foundations often assert that spending all of their resources in a relatively short period gives them the ability to do more good, to produce more social value, than if they were to hold the same resources in a lasting endowment and disburse…
Resource type: Research Report
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Purpose Built: Knowledge and tools for people who fund, lead, and evaluate capital projects
Source: MASS Design
Capital projects often bring lasting benefits to nonprofit organizations and the people they serve. In the United States alone, foundations grant more than $3 billion per year to construct or improve buildings. To help these funders and their nonprofit partners make the most of capital…
Resource type: Case Study
