Results List
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Recession and Recovery
Source: Center for Social Inclusion
This report, released by the Center for Social Inclusion, ranks impact of the recession on all 50 states and the District of Columbia based on 14 variables including housing, jobs, health, and poverty. The Center for Social Inclusion is an Atlantic grantee. The New York…
Resource type: Research Report
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Securing a Bill of Rights
The 1998 Belfast Agreement stressed the centrality of protecting human rights to building a better future for Northern Ireland. The Agreement made explicit commitments to producing a Bill of Rights (BOR) for Northern Ireland. This process of achieving a Bill has been beset with political…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Building Capacity for Maximum Impact
Source: Gara LaMarche
Gara LaMarche delivers the Keynote Address at the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York Symposium: Baruch College School of Public Affairs. It’s a little odd that I should be standing here this morning to share some thoughts about the role of evaluation in foundations…
Resource type: Speech
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Impact, Legacy and Collaboration
Source: Gara LaMarche
Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, talks about his experiences of effective collaboration, how to make an impact and what it takes to leave a legacy in philanthropy in this speech to the New Mexico Regional Association of Grantmakers in Albuquerque. I have…
Resource type: Speech
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Philanthropy’s Role in Ageing Issues
Source: Gara LaMarche
The Atlantic Philanthropies’ approach to funding in ageing, including its emphasis on advocacy, is outlined in this speech by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Annual Meeting of Grantmakers in Aging in San Diego, California in November 2007. When I was asked a…
Resource type: Speech
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The Role of Foundations in Immigrant Rights
Source: Gara LaMarche
The rights of immigrants must be protected and foundations can use their unique strengths to play a leading role such as funding public education and civic engagement, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech at the European Foundation Centre Meeting…
Resource type: Speech
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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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Atlas Learning Project: Resources for Funding Policy Change
Source: Center for Evaluation Innovation
Helping foundations be more aggressive and adaptive in their support for advocacy and policy change. Learn more > Foundations and advocates can no longer rely on the same old approaches to be effective when it comes to policy change. Progress is too vulnerable to not…
Resource type: Research Report
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Value, Time, and Time-Limited Philanthropy
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society
Leaders of limited-life foundations often assert that spending all of their resources in a relatively short period gives them the ability to do more good, to produce more social value, than if they were to hold the same resources in a lasting endowment and disburse…
Resource type: Research Report
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ACA Helps Bring Child Uninsured Rate Down to New Record Low
Source: Georgetown Center for Children and Families
The children’s uninsured rate in the United States declined significantly after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2014, according to this report from the Georgetown Center for Children and Families. All income and racial groups and areas of the country reflected this national…
Resource type: Research Report