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Making Ireland One of the Best Places to Grow Old
Madge Murphy in a class devoted to developing an understanding of aging at Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing. The students participate in the LAMP (Local Asset Mapping Project), which seeks to create a new paradigm for health care by focusing on a community’s existing priorities…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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€8m Boost for Tusla from Atlantic Philanthropies
The Child and Family Agency, Tusla, is to receive over €8 million from charitable foundation Atlantic Philanthropies for an early intervention and prevention programme 26 new support posts will be created by Tusla following €8.3m grant Announcing details of the three-year programme, the agency’s Chairperson Norah…
Author: RTÉ News
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Atlantic Makes Grants of €14.7m to Improve Care for People with Dementia
The Atlantic Philanthropies is making new grants totaling €14.7 million to improve the care and wellbeing of people living with dementia in the Republic of Ireland. These grants are the subject of ongoing discussions with the Government. The grants are being made to: The Health…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Young People Demand: Where Is My Public Servant?
By Dan Jellinek Public Achievement chief executive Paul Smyth A Northern Ireland-based project helping young people from tough social backgrounds become online political campaigners is looking to expand its model outside the UK, UKAuthority.com has learned. WIMPS – “Where Is My Public Servant?” – was…
Author: UK Authority
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Boost for University of Limerick in €52m Investment Creating 225 New Jobs
Dr. Mary Shire, Vice President Research UL and Professor Kieran Hodnett, Dean, Faculty of Science and Engineering UL welcome An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, TD to the University of Limerick. Photo: Alan Place By Ailish O’Hora The University of Limerick is to benefit from a €52m…
Author: Independent.ie
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Bold Advocacy: How Atlantic Philanthropies Funded a Movement
By Naomi Rothwell The dramatic story of the recent American health care reform movement – and how foundations had a hand in changing history – has not been widely told. Starting in 2008, Atlantic Philanthropies and others helped fund an extraordinary campaign to push for…
Author: GrantCraft
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Interview - Christopher Oechsli
The Atlantic Philanthropies is coming to the end of its life as a grantmaking foundation. It is due to complete its grantmaking by 2016 and close its doors by 2020 – the largest foundation ever to spend out. Caroline Hartnell talked to Atlantic president and…
Author: Alliance magazine
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An Australian 'Smart State' Serves Up Lessons for a Knowledge Economy
By David L. Wheeler Editor at Large, International This Chronicle of Higher Education article provides an overview of – and some key lessons from – Queensland Australia’s “Smart State” initiative, which transformed the state from a place best known for its beaches to one known…
Author: The Chronicle of Higher Education
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The Atlantic Philanthropies To Support Cornell University’s New Tech Campus in New York City
Rendering: Aerial view of NYC Tech Campus courtesy of Cornell University. The City of New York has partnered with Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology for its Applied Sciences NYC initiative, which will transform more than 10 acres of Roosevelt Island into an…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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A Letter from the President and CEO
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Now that I am settled into my new position as President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, I wanted to take a moment to tell you how special it is for me to have the opportunity to work with this organisation…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies