Results List
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Funder Discussion Guide: Advocacy, Politics & Philanthropy
Source: Innovation Network
In funding advocacy, foundations sometimes confront questions such as What’s a promising strategic focus?, How to integrate grassroots and grasstops advocacy?, or How to empower advocates in planning and funding decisions? Over the course of a 10-year effort to comprehensively reform the U.S. immigration system, Atlantic faced similar choices. The decisions it…
Resource type: Case Study
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School-Based Health Services Help Students Develop to Their Full Potential
Oakland sixth-grader Carlos Mazariego took his first trip away from home when he travelled to Washington, D.C., for a national Elev8 youth advocacy trip. He and nine other students met with staff from the offices of California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer and advocated…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Strengthening Evidence-Based HIV Health Care: Lessons for Advocacy Movements and Funders
Source: Dr. Waasila Jassat
This report describes how the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society (SAHIVCS) has helped South Africa combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic by serving as a trusted source of information for government officials and medical practitioners about how to deliver high-quality, cost-effective treatment. Although South Africa has more…
Resource type: Research Report
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Brief: Elev8 Chicago: Demonstrating the Power and Potential of Community Schools
Source: Elev8 Chicago
Communities across the country are grappling with the challenge of preparing young people for a bright future. Elev8 Chicago – an Atlantic-supported initiative to strengthen community schools by providing, school-based health services and after-school programmes and enhancing family engagement – has made a positive difference…
Resource type: Research Report
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Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Childhood Development Initiative’s Doodle Den Literacy Programme
Source: Centre for Effective Education at Queen’s University Belfast
An after-school literacy programme that employs engaging activities and involves parents is an effective approach to bolster the reading and writing skills of disadvantaged children. The Doodle Den programme also made a positive impact on improving concentration and reducing problem behaviours in school, according to…
Resource type: Research Report
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Advocacy Capacity Training Assessment: An Overview of the Field
Source: The Headwaters Group
The Headwaters Group prepared this report for The Atlantic Philanthropies to inform philanthropic efforts to build advocacy capacity among state and local groups. The report provides an overview of current advocacy training exploring who does it, how it is done and what appears to be…
Resource type: Research Report
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Providing Better Legal Defence for the Poor in Texas
More than 15 per cent of Texas’ 22 million people live below the poverty line – most of them in rural areas. Texas is one of 16 states that require county governments to provide a majority of funding for indigent legal defence services. Each county…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Free Legal Advice Centres
The Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC), acting on behalf of Dr. Lydia Foy, successfully challenged the Irish Government’s refusal to allow transgendered people to alter their birth certificates to accurately reflect their new identities. Learn more at http://atlanticphilanthropies.org/design/atlantic/flash/annualreport/index.html The Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC), acting…
Resource type: Video
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From the Streets to the Courts to City Hall: A Case Study of a Comprehensive Campaign to Reform Stop-and-Frisk in New York City
Source: Communities United for Police Reform
This case study explores how Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) successfully campaigned to end stop-and-frisk abuses in New York City. Stop-and-frisk is a practice of police officers stopping individuals they deem suspicious, questioning them, and frequently frisking them for weapons and other contraband. Out…
Resource type: Case Study
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Lessons Learned from Health Care Reform – ‘Will They Get It Right?’
In March 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The bill could transform health care in the United States, and expand access for tens of millions. But the hardest part – implementation – still lies ahead. In this brief…
Resource type: Video
