Results List
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Creating Integrated Schools To Improve Tolerance and Promote Peace
Northern Ireland is a deeply divided society where religious segregation is a feature of almost every aspect of life. For example, 94 per cent of children are educated in religiously segregated schools and, unsurprisingly, research shows that high numbers of young children already have sectarian…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Talent in Philanthropy
Source: Gara LaMarche
Newspaper reporters, baseball pitching scouts, art dealers and movie studio casting agents all provide models for philanthropy to follow in finding and cultivating talented programme officers, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech to the Foundation Impact Research Group, Terry…
Resource type: Speech
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The Cornell Tradition
Source: Flatbush Pictures
In 1982, Atlantic’s first-ever grant started the The Cornell Tradition fellowship, which has since supported 5,500 of Cornell University’s most service-oriented undergraduates. We recently gave the program our very last grant, too. Our Work in the United States: A Film Series The Cornell Tradition is one in a series…
Resource type: Video
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How Private Wealth Can Change the World
Source: By Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, delivered this speech at an international conference held by the Robert Bosch Stiftung in Berlin: The Era of Citizens – How Civil Society and Foundations are Shaping the Future. The conference was opened by German…
Resource type: Speech
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Public Views on Shared Education in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is a deeply divided society and the level of separation between Protestant and Catholic communities is reflected in its education system. Less than 6% of the school-aged population is educated together. The system of education in Northern Ireland is undergoing significant administrative and…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Giving Children’s Rights Their Day in Court
The research underlying the 1997 report by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child identified many issues related to the youth of Northern Ireland. A key finding was low awareness among children, families and caregivers of children’s legal rights and available services.…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Improving the Health Care System One Community at a Time
The primary health care system in many Viet Nam provinces began to deteriorate rapidly in the mid-’80s as agricultural co-operatives were dismantled under a new Government policy. This deterioration had a particularly severe impact on commune health centres (CHCs), which serve millions of the country’s…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Using Litigation to Defend Human Rights
Since the September 11 terror attacks, US government policy and practice against the threat of terrorism has arguably violated a number of human rights laws and norms. The US currently detains more than 13,000 people around the world, from South Carolina to Pakistan to the…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Leveraging Information, Insights and Influence To Help Families
The United States budget plan for 2006 calls for cuts totalling nearly $250 billion in domestic programmes – many of which will adversely affect disadvantaged families with children. Since 1981, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has provided independent, well-researched analyses to inform the…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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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