Results List
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Sustainable Models of Practice and Legacy Effects
Source: Queen's University Belfast
How can grantees sustain the impact of their work — especially after their funding ends? This series of research reports identifies sustainability practices and skills that have enabled Atlantic’s grantees in Northern Ireland to continue their work after the foundation ceased funding their operations. The reports draw on the experiences of organizations…
Resource type: Research Report
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What Ambitious Donors Can Learn From The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Experience Making Big Bets
Source: The Bridgespan Group
This report analyzes 25 of Atlantic’s “big bet” grants—those over $10 million or more to a single organization or focused initiative—and highlights impact and lessons. The report also discusses what worked and some of the challenges the foundation, its grantees and partners faced. Atlantic President…
Resource type: Research Report
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Using the Law to Secure Social Change on the Island of Ireland
Source: University College Cork and Queen's University Belfast
This report discusses lessons Atlantic grantees have learned about using the law to secure social change in the Republic of Ireland (ROI) and Northern Ireland (NI). Atlantic’s support for this work began in 2004. Back then, few organizations in ROI or NI had much experience with public…
Resource type: Research Report
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Children’s Rights Alliance: Report Card 2016
Source: Children’s Rights Alliance
This eighth and latest Report Card gives the Irish Government an overall ‘C’ grade on its progress on the implementation of commitments to children under the Programme for Government 2011-2016. The assessment was done by an independent panel of experts. This is the fourth consecutive…
Resource type: Research Report
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Beyond the Win: Pathways for Policy Implementation
Source: ORS Impact
When it comes to policy, most attention is focused on “the win.” But—as so many advocates know—“the win” is just the beginning. Once a policy has been “won,” it moves to the policy implementation phase, where there are innumerable new decisions to make as well…
Resource type: Research Report
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Ready to Learn: Working in Partnership with Schools and Families to Help Raise Achievement
Source: Institute of Child Care Research, Queen’s University Belfast
Completing school is a fundamental task in order to succeed in life. Yet too many children from disadvantaged backgrounds fall behind soon after they start school and never catch up. A programme designed to help young children get the start they need has shown promising…
Resource type: Research Report
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Evaluation of Programme to Protect Children from Domestic Violence
Source: University of Lincoln
Children who experience domestic abuse can be forgotten victims. Mayo Children’s Initiative (MCI Ireland), a programme in rural Ireland, made “spectacular progress” in reaching these children and is a model for other countries to follow, according to the lead researcher of an evaluation carried out…
Resource type: Research Report
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A New Story About Later Life: The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Effort to Expand Civic Engagement Among Older Americans
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke Sanford School of Public Policy
A nearly decade-long effort by The Atlantic Philanthropies to promote Civic Engagement of Older Adults — a new field dedicated to developing programmes and policies to provide greater opportunities to work, learn and volunteer after age 60 — yielded six broad lessons, according to this report. The $120 million…
Resource type: Research Report
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A Meeting of Queer Minds
Source: Karen Martin
This report covers the exchange, key learnings and recommendations of leaders and activists from Irish and South African organisations representing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTIs) at a retreat, sponsored by Atlantic, near Cape Town in March 2010. Introduction In March 2010, The…
Resource type: Research Report
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Winding Down the Atlantic Philanthropies – 2001-2009: The First Eight Years
Source: Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
This report is the first in a series to chronicle the concluding years of The Atlantic Philanthropies, the largest foundation ever to decide to commit its entire endowment in a limited timeframe and then close its doors. It addresses questions raised by the seminal decision made of Atlantic’s…
Resource type: Research Report