Results List
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Atlantic’s Approach to Evaluation: What Is Important to Learn, and How Do We Put It to Use?
When I was named President of Atlantic last year, I doubt that a rousing chorus of cheers went up in the offices of the American Evaluation Association. Atlantic takes evaluation very seriously, but in my philanthropic and activist life before coming here, I didn’t have…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Human Rights for Lesbians and Gays in the New South Africa: Still Much Work to Do
Zoliswa Nkonyana, Zizakele Sigasa, and Salome Masooa helped me to understand the critical importance of Atlantic’s work to support the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgendered and intersex people in South Africa. Sadly, these young women were not among the many South Africans I…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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THE KILLING OF SISTAHS
By Jeanine Cameron Hands up, how many of you have heard of Matthew Shephard? Yes, that’s right, he was the American gay student who was tortured and killed for being homosexual. I saw the play at the Baxter, and I watched his story on DVD.…
Author: Mamba
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Dreams of a better life long departed
Images and text combine in Voices from the Land, to reveal despair and hope Distance blunts the jagged edges of painful realities. But all it takes is a smell, sound or image to re-sharpen the softened contours of memory. That has been the effect on…
Author: The Sunday Independent
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What Does Collaborative Donor Practice Look Like?
By Gillian Mitchell, Gabrielle Ritchie and Melanie Judge Collaboration is a non-profit and funding term that is increasingly used to refer to good organisational and donor practice. “Collaboration teaches us to leave our strategies at the door and to come together collectively to decide what’s best…
Author: Resourcing Philanthropy
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Game Changer: The Atlantic Philanthropies
By Nicole Richards Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO of US billionaire Chuck Feeney’s The Atlantic Philanthropies on why philanthropy is a force multiplier, the difference between ‘venture’ and ‘adventure’ philanthropy, and lessons learned from a limited life foundation. “It’s a real honour to talk…
Author: Generosity
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Public Affairs: People Power
In June, The Atlantic Philanthropies supported a citizens’ assembly organised in Dublin by We the Citizens. The group of 100 participants discussed political and electoral reform, and debated tax increase options, spending cuts and privatisation. Topics were determined by popular issues discussed at seven prior…
Author: Eolas Magazine
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What Is the Most Daring, Audacious, and Successful Grant of the Past 100 Years?
A symposium of philanthropic leaders To mark the 100th anniversary of the Carnegie Corporation, we asked several philanthropic leaders about the most audacious grants of the past century—and what grants made today will be talked about 100 years hence. —THE EDITORS * * * Ted Turner’s shock…
Author: Philanthropy Magazine
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MOLISA Vice-Minister and colleagues from Viet Nam visit Melbourne
By Harry Minas. During the week of 23-27 August 2010 a 10-person delegation from Viet Nam’s Ministry of Labour Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) visited Melbourne to learn about the Victorian approach to provision of community mental health services, with a focus on arrangements for…
Author: Centre for International Mental Health
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Court Declares home affairs actions in deporting asylum seeker as unlawful
Lawyers for Human Rights is an Atlantic grantee. The South Gauteng High Court today ruled that the deportation of an asylum seeker by the Department of Home Affairs was unlawful, unconstitutional, and invalid, and ordered the Department to pay for and facilitate his return to…
Author: Lawyers for Human Rights