Results List
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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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The Strengthening of Atlantic’s Social Justice Mission: What It Means for Our Funding
I’ve just returned from Denver, Colorado, where the annual conference of the Council on Foundations ended Tuesday. A significant theme of the conference this year, which Atlantic helped to organise, was what foundations can do to advance social justice. I was honoured to moderate a…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Nursing gets shot in the arm
Original Source Click here to listen to the interview. Summit TV speaks to Dr Victoria Pinkney-Atkinson about the award of millions of dollars by The Atlantic Philanthropies into South African nursing educational institutions that may change the face of nursing as we know it. Jane…
Author: Business Day (South Africa)
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South Tipperary Dementia Project Launched
Launch of the “5 Steps to Living Well with Dementia” project in South Tipperary South Tipperary has been selected as the site for an innovative pilot project to develop and test new service models aiming to divert significant numbers of people with dementia from institutional…
Author: Genio
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Nursing education in South Africa receives an R70m boost
Original Source Four universities will divide among them a sum of R70m, donated to help improve nursing education in the country over the next four years, the Inyathelo organisation announced on Thursday. The grants, courtesy of The Atlantic Philanthropies, an international philanthropic organisation, are aimed…
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New Thinking Needed to Promote Active Ageing
By Anne Connolly Opinion: In Ireland and throughout the developed world, people are living longer and healthier lives. Every decade, life expectancy is increasing by 2.5 years. At least half of the babies born today in Ireland are likely to live to be 100. The Central…
Author: Irish Times
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Lack of end-of-life support for patients
By Evelyn Ring. ONE in five hospital patients at the end of their lives could have died at home if there had been enough supports, according to a unique national audit published yesterday. It found that hospital admissions through emergency departments negatively impact on patients…
Author: Irish Examiner
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Chuck Feeney: Giving It All Away
Atlantic Philanthropies has this year wound itself up as quietly as it arrived in Ireland more than 30 years ago, after dispensing €1bn on Irish projects. Our reporter profiles Chuck Feeney — the billionaire backer of an extraordinary foundation. By Liam Collins Everybody you meet…
Author: Independent.ie
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'A Beautiful Death' Video Is a Finalist for National Magazine Award
By Joel Keehn Consumer Reports is a finalist for a 2015 National Magazine Award in multimedia, which honors the best in digital storytelling, for its report ‘A Beautiful Death.’ The multimedia package includes an 18-minute video that chronicles the final 38 days of Paul Scheier, a retired dentist…
Author: Consumer Reports
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Making the Most of Our Final Years – An Update
We are now squarely on the trajectory that our founder, Chuck Feeney, and Atlantic’s Board of Directors established for us in 2002: to conclude all of our grantmaking by 2016. The objective was, and continues to be, to solve urgent and major problems – with…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies