Results List
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What Ambitious Donors Can Learn From The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Experience Making Big Bets
Source: The Bridgespan Group
This report analyzes 25 of Atlantic’s “big bet” grants—those over $10 million or more to a single organization or focused initiative—and highlights impact and lessons. The report also discusses what worked and some of the challenges the foundation, its grantees and partners faced. Atlantic President…
Resource type: Research Report
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The Atlantic Philanthropies: Australia
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
This book tells the story of Atlantic’s $368 million investments in Australia between 1998 and 2016 to grow the country’s biomedical research, bolster higher education, advance social equity and boost leadership capabilities in related sectors. In Brisbane, students visit a Translational Research Institute science laboratory…
Resource type: Research Report
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Harvest Time for The Atlantic Philanthropies – 2014-2016: Finished, But Not Done
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
This is the sixth paper in the “Harvest Time” series on the concluding years of The Atlantic Philanthropies, the largest endowed institution to put all its charitable assets to use in a fixed period of time and then close its doors. “Finished, But Not Done”…
Resource type: Research Report
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Learning Lessons from The Atlantic Philanthropies and the Irish Government Working Together
Source: Institute of Public Administration
This report summarizes a roundtable held in April 2017 in Ireland to discuss how government and philanthropy can work together effectively. The discussions drew on lessons Atlantic and the Irish government learned from working together for more than a decade, starting in 2003. Over the…
Resource type: Research Report
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First, Treat the System: The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Effort to Promote Health and Equity in Viet Nam
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
Atlantic’s efforts to improve public health and primary health care in Viet Nam are benefiting the country’s 80 million people, according to this new report. The scope of work has resulted in replicable models of care in urban centres and rural provinces. While less than…
Resource type: Research Report
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Better Together? Philanthropy and Government: Lessons from The Atlantic Philanthropies and Irish Government Partnership-based Co-Investments
Source: Institute of Public Administration
This study shows how philanthropy, civil society organizations and government can work together to effectively build capacity and enhance policy and service delivery. It also offers lessons for philanthropies and government drawn from the successes and failures of Atlantic’s and the Irish Government’s co-investments. Authors Richard…
Resource type: Research Report
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Make Big Plans: Cornell Olin Lecture
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
Atlantic President and CEO Christopher G. Oechsli joined Cornell University President Emeritus Frank H. T. Rhodes for a conversation about Atlantic’s founder, Chuck Feeney, and the vision and values behind the foundation’s grantmaking at Cornell and around the world. At the event, Hunter R. Rawlings…
Resource type: Speech
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The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Grantmaking in the Cancer and Biomedical Fields: 1986-2015
This report summarizes The Atlantic Philanthropies’ investments totaling more than $1 billion between 1986-2015 to advance cancer research around the world. Atlantic invested $32 million to help establish the Translational Research Center in Queensland, Australia. Professor Ian Frazer is TRI’s founding CEO and director. Topics…
Resource type: Research Report
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Building a Field: The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Investment in Palliative Care
Source: Mary Rafferty and Anne Colgan
This study captures the impact and lessons of Atlantic’s €58 million investment to help build the field of palliative care. It offers insights into what it takes to develop a community of organizations and individuals working towards a common goal using a shared body of…
Resource type: Research Report
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Harvest Time for The Atlantic Philanthropies – 2012-2013: Decline & Rise
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
This report, the fourth in a series about The Atlantic Philanthropies’s concluding years, details unexpected turns in the foundation’s approach to commit its entire endowment in a limited time frame. The report covers late 2012 through the end of 2013, some three to four years…
Resource type: Research Report