Results List
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With Rewards Come Responsibilities: Raising the Bar by $14.8 Million
By Diane Felicio, Ph.D., Development Director On March 31, 2015, Community Catalyst announced a $14.8 million legacy award from The Atlantic Philanthropies to launch The Center for Consumer and Community Engagement in Health System Transformation (The Center). We were thrilled to celebrate the successful conclusion of what had been…
Author: Community Catalyst
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20 Years On, South Africa's Remarkable Constitution Remains Unfulfilled
By Christopher Oechsli and Darren Walker Commentary: Realizing Mandela’s vision of a democratic future is a collective global responsibility. A statue of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first democratic president and Nobel Laureate is pictured outside the parliament. (RODGER BOSCH/AFP/Getty Images) Over a year after the…
Author: GlobalPost
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How King v. Burwell Threatens the Health and Financial Stability of Consumers
By Ron Pollack, Executive Director, Families USA One of the most incredible oddities about the King v. Burwell case is that the people who have the biggest stake in its outcome are not parties to the litigation. This is because there are only two sets of parties…
Author: Families USA
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New $25m Fund for SA civil society groups working to advance constitutionalism
Joint statement from the Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies Cape Town – Today the Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies announced the launch of a joint fund to support organisations promoting and advancing constitutionalism in…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Globetrotting and Goal Setting: Where Will Atlantic Wind Up?
I have been on the road for most of the last four months, more so than in the prior three years I have been leading The Atlantic Philanthropies. In order to take in what Atlantic has done in its three decades-plus of grantmaking, I traveled…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
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The Central Park Five, a Ken Burns Documentary, Now Streaming on PBS.org
VIDEO: Trailer for The Central Park Five. Watch the full 2-hour documentary at PBS.org > The Central Park Five, a film from award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns, tells the story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a…
Author: PBS
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NOT Spending Down: CEO Update
Atlantic is not a “spend down” foundation, although we’re often described as such. Yes, we will complete all of our grantmaking by the end of 2016. The term “spending down,” however, suggests a slow, inexorable depletion of assets, resources and impact or perhaps a rushed…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Atlantic Philanthropies’ $1.1bn is ‘drop in ocean’ next to what State can invest
Vulnerable are being pushed away from central decision-making, says foundation member Atlantic Philanthropies Ireand’s Martin O’Brien will deliver the Dave Ellis lecture – in memory of the activist who worked with community groups in Dublin for more than 20 years – at the Rotunda Hospital,…
Author: The Irish Times
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A Bad Ruling on Stop-and-Frisk
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit was unwise to put a stay on the necessary remedies Judge Shira Scheindlin of Federal District Court in Manhattan ordered in August in response to the civil rights violations of New York City’s stop-and-frisk policy.And it overreached in taking…
Author: The New York Times
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The Central Park Five Film Premieres on April 16
Watch Central Park Five Trailer on PBS. See more from Central Park Five. THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, a new film from award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns, tells the story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white…
Author: PBS