Results List
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Elev8 New Mexico
Elev8 New Mexico, an initiative of the New Mexico Community Foundation, is a part of a national program focused on creating full-service community schools. At Elev8 schools, students and their families benefit from a full range of afterschool activities, a school-based health center, and family…
Resource type: Video
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St. James’s Hospital Centre of Excellence for Successful Ageing, Dublin, Ireland
The Centre of Excellence for Successful Ageing at St. James ‘s Hospital in Dublin is an example of a capital investment that went beyond mere construction. Atlantic offered the hospital a matching grant of €2.7 million over five years in 2004 enabling the hospital to obtain a long-sought…
Resource type: Video
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Ireland’s Top Teens – The Trailer
”Ireland’s Top Teens” comes to TV screen near you. The show will profile ten youth groups who have taken part in the permanent tsb Foróige Youth Citizenship Programme and are now in the running to be crowned ‘Ireland’s Top Teens’. These groups have been selected…
Resource type: Video
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Gara LaMarche’s Speech at MIT’s Starr Forum – Reclaiming the Moral Life of Philanthropy
27 September 2010 Has philanthropy lost “moral clarity,” growing more concerned with the fix, the intervention, than about reasons for doing or caring about what is right? In a speech given on 27 September 2010 at the Starr Forum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for…
Resource type: Video
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Executive Summary of Findings and Lessons from the HCAN Campaign
Source: Grassroots Solutions and M+R Strategic Services
This overview provides the methodology and 12 major qualitative findings of the Health Care for America Now (HCAN) campaign evaluation. The campaign had the goal of winning affordable and comprehensive health care for all Americans. Prior to passage of the health care bill in 2010,…
Resource type: Evaluation
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Giving Hope and Dignity to the Poor: The Story of ProBono.org
Source: Probono.Org
Probono.org, a South Africa clearing house that seeks to increase access to justice through the pro bono services of law firms, provides a model that substantially reduces public interest law costs since it unlocks private legal expertise, according to this case study commissioned by The…
Resource type: Case Study
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Viet Nam Helmet Law
Fewer Vietnamese are dying and being injured since the National Helmet Law took effect 15 December 2007, requiring all motorbike users to wear approved helmets. This accomplishment is the culmination of diligent work by the government, including the Ministry of Health, and organisations such as…
Resource type: Video
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Community-based Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland
Source: Community Restorative Justice Ireland and Northern Ireland Alternatives
This report presents independent evaluation findings regarding the work of Community Restorative Justice Ireland (CRJI) and Northern Ireland Alternatives (NIA) in facilitating and promoting non‐violent community alternatives to paramilitary punishment attacks and exclusions relating to alleged localised crime and anti‐social behaviour. The Institute of Criminology…
Resource type: Evaluation
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Addressing the Root Causes of Social Injustice
Source: Le Nhan Phuong
The road to lasting change in the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people begins with the courage to ask the right questions, said Le Nhan Phuong, Programme Director of the Population Health Programme at The Atlantic Philanthropies, in this speech at the International Conference on…
Resource type: Speech
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Northern Ireland Has Much More to Accomplish in Human Rights
Source: Martin O'Brien
The Good Friday Agreement represented a critical step forward for human rights in Northern Ireland, but it is essential to focus on what hasn’t yet been accomplished, said Martin O’Brien, Programme Director, Reconciliation & Human Rights Programme at The Atlantic Philanthropies, in this speech at…
Resource type: Speech