Results List
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Building Capacity for Maximum Impact
Source: Gara LaMarche
Gara LaMarche delivers the Keynote Address at the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York Symposium: Baruch College School of Public Affairs. It’s a little odd that I should be standing here this morning to share some thoughts about the role of evaluation in foundations…
Resource type: Speech
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Atlantic in Viet Nam
Atlantic invested $382 million in Viet Nam to improve public health and revitalize higher education. Here you’ll find a collection of reports and resources about Atlantic’s work in Viet Nam.
Resource type: Featured Topic
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Atlantic in Australia
Atlantic invested $368 million in Australia between 1998 and 2016 to grow the country’s biomedical research, bolster higher education, advance social equity and boost leadership capabilities in related sectors. Here you’ll find a collection of news and reports about Atlantic’s work in Australia.
Resource type: Featured Topic
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Government Partnerships & Engagement
Engaging and partnering with government was a key strategy in Atlantic’s efforts to provide all people with opportunity, dignity, and equity. This collection of reports, news articles, videos and studies explores how the foundation pursued different kinds of government engagements, what was accomplished and lessons learned.
Resource type: Featured Topic
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Giving While Living
Through the Giving While Living approach to philanthropy, donors actively devote their money, skills and time to making a difference during their lifetimes. This collection of reports, news articles, videos and studies contain reflections about the practice of Giving While Living, the satisfaction derived from it,…
Resource type: Featured Topic
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Atlantic in the Republic of Ireland
Over 30 years, Atlantic invested $1.3 billion into the Republic of Ireland to help breathe life into university research, support major advances in human rights, and underwrite joint efforts with government to improve services for children and older adults. Here you’ll find a collection of…
Resource type: Featured Topic
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Atlantic in Northern Ireland
From 1991 through 2016, Atlantic invested $570 million in Northern Ireland to promote the peace process; reshape higher education; support cross-community primary and secondary schools; improve public services to tackle disadvantage; develop social policy based on evidence of need, and demonstrable effectiveness; and strengthen independent organizations…
Resource type: Featured Topic
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Evaluation of The Atlantic Philanthropies Migration Programme
Source: RAND Europe
Over the course of the 1990s and continuing through 2007, Ireland experienced a substantial increase in migration. The large influx of people from other countries seeking a better life placed pressures on the existing legislative framework that regulated the rights of migrants. It also put…
Resource type: Evaluation
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Using the Law to Secure Social Change
Atlantic’s support for strategic litigation has helped organizations in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa and the United States successfully pursue legal action resulting in—among other outcomes—racially biased criminal justice practices being declared unconstitutional, advancement of the rights of LGBT people, protection of civil liberties, and promotion of unity…
Resource type: Featured Topic
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Law as a Vehicle for Social Change
Source: Martin O'Brien
Martin O’Brien, Senior Vice President for Programmes at The Atlantic Philanthropies, delivered FLAC’s Seventh Annual Dave Ellis Memorial Lecture in Dublin. Ellis was a community activist who dedicated his career to working with community groups on issues including welfare rights, legal aid, legal education and…
Resource type: Speech