Results List
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How Atlantic Philanthropies Plans To Keep Making Change After It Shuts Down
The foundation will have given away more than $8 billion when it shutters in 2020. Now as it spends its last millions, Atlantic is innovating better ways to leave a lasting impact. [Illustration: Sylverarts/iStock]By Ben Paynter When it was founded in 1982, the Atlantic Philanthropies,…
Author: Fast Co.Exist
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Four Questions Funders Should Ask About Legal Advocacy
Legal advocacy – also known as advocacy through the courts – uses the judicial system to advance social change goals. This is often done by bringing forward a legal case in court that focuses on improving a situation for a particular group of disadvantaged people. Brown…
Author: TCC Group
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Media Impact Funders Receives Two Transformative Grants to Strengthen Support of Media That Matters
Media Impact Funders is a knowledge network for media funders. PHILADELPHIA, PA (May 31, 2016)—Media Impact Funders (MIF), a member-supported network of funders who seek to improve society through media and technology, has been awarded a two-year, $500,000 matching grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies, a…
Author: Media Impact Funders
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Funding’s Not Forever, But Foundations Must Help Grantees Manage Transitions
Grantmakers in Health Conference, 2016. Photo: Paul Rieckhoff / Twitter By Maryann Jacob Macias, Associate Programme Executive Change is always hard, especially when it involves bringing something one has invested in to an end. It is difficult for us as grantmakers adjusting to new circumstances – for…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Foundation Chiefs Spar on Question of Giving in Perpetuity
Emmett Carson, CEO of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, says foundations that aim to operate indefinitely can peacefully coexist with those that decide to spend all their assets in set period of time. Photo: Edward Caldwell By Megan O’Neil PALO ALTO, CALIF.—Defenders of foundations created to…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Perpetuity or Spend-Down: Does the Notion of Lifespan Matter in Organized Philanthropy?
This article was originally published by NPQ online, on March 31, 2016 (https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2016/03/31/perpetuity-or-spend-down-does-the-notion-of-lifespan-matter-in-organized-philanthropy). Used with permission. Are foundations with set periods for spending down their assets more effective as grantmakers than their peers who are established to exist in perpetuity? This is a longstanding discussion among…
Author: Nonprofit Quarterly
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What Does Collaborative Donor Practice Look Like?
By Gillian Mitchell, Gabrielle Ritchie and Melanie Judge Collaboration is a non-profit and funding term that is increasingly used to refer to good organisational and donor practice. “Collaboration teaches us to leave our strategies at the door and to come together collectively to decide what’s best…
Author: Resourcing Philanthropy
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Creating Change at the Intersection of Philanthropy and Government
How can we achieve more impact through partnerships between philanthropy and government? What does philanthropy need to do differently to better work with government groups to address the 21st century’s most pressing problems? And how can better communication play a part in achieving these goals?…
Author: The Atlantic Philathropies
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Risk with Vision: Placing Informed 'Big Bets'
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…
Author: Resourcing Philanthropy
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Margin to Centre: How Philanthropy Can Help Guarantee Constitutional Rights in South Africa
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…
Author: Resourcing Philanthropy