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By Richard Kirsch.  One year after the Tea Party insurgency disrupted Democratic Congressional town hall meetings, it’s worth asking how healthcare reform survived. By the beginning of 2010, Scott Brown had taken Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, reform proponents had lost the national narrative and voters…

Lysa John has been named as the new Executive Director of the Atlantic Institute, following a high impact career at CIVICUS, Save the Children and the U.N. She has been an advocate for equity and the power of international collaboration for over two decades. Supporting…

This evaluation of Atlantic’s grantmaking to support the economic security of low-income elders identifies elements most likely to help advance a policy agenda when working in a politically charged environment:  Use a state-by-state approach and target multiple levels of government to show incremental progress for national results…

By Kavitha Mediratta Last year, at the beginning of ninth grade, my son's friend Emmanuel was suspended from school for bringing a brick to class. Emmanuel had found the brick in the schoolyard, and with the satirical wit of a 14-year-old, named it "Softie" and…

This case study was commissioned by the Civic Participation Action Fund, an Atlantic grantee. The 2016 election of Kim Ogg as district attorney (DA) in Harris County, Texas, was part of a Democratic electoral wave that extended from the presidential candidate to down ballot races…

"Audacious philanthropy" can save lives. One example is The Atlantic Philanthropies' push for a helmet law in Viet Nam.

Paradigm-shifting elections don't shift paradigms if there aren't corresponding social movements for change.By VIVIEN LABATON AND GARA LAMARCHE  One thing we now know with certainty, more than two years into Barack Obama's presidency, is that change is an uphill battle. We're already defending hard-won gains on health care…

The 1998 Belfast Agreement stressed the centrality of protecting human rights to building a better future for Northern Ireland. The Agreement made explicit commitments to producing a Bill of Rights (BOR) for Northern Ireland. This process of achieving a Bill has been beset with political…

 Night and a Day in QueenstownPosted by Gara LaMarche  | 18 March 2011, South AfricaAs Jack has chronicled, we arrived in Queenstown, the final leg of our journey in the Eastern Cape, in the dark, around 7 p.m.  This was a problem for two reasons.  First, we’d…

Philanthropy News Digest's blog PhilanTopic named The Atlantic Philanthropies as an organization that has made policy advocacy a cornerstone of its philanthropic strategy in its post on why policy advocacy is one of the most important tools needed to drive social change: Policy advocacy -- a…