Results List
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Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System
Source: Applied Research Center
Deportations and detentions of undocumented immigrants are destroying families, according to a ground breaking report by the Applied Research Center (ARC). The report documents, for the first time, the national scale and scope of this problem. When parents are detained or deported, their children are…
Resource type: Research Report
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Investing in Change: Why Supporting Advocacy Makes Sense for Foundations
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
This publication explores the experiences of a growing number of funders around the world that are committed to supporting advocacy as a strategy to advance social change. We are starting with this topic because funding advocacy too often is the philanthropic road not taken, yet…
Resource type: Research Report
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The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Embrace of a Social Justice Approach to Grantmaking
Source: Gara LaMarche
The story behind The Atlantic Philanthropies’ embrace of social justice is recounted in this speech by Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, at the Ford Foundation Convening on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace in February 2009 in Cairo, Egypt. It is bracing…
Resource type: Speech
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‘This is All Yours’: Opening Remarks for Isivivana Centre in Khayelitsha
Source: David Sternlieb, Chief Operating Officer, The Atlantic Philanthropies
David Sternlieb, Chief Operating Officer of The Atlantic Philanthropies, delivered these remarks at the October 13, 2016 opening of the Isivivana Centre in Khayelitsha township, outside Cape Town, South Africa. Acclaimed author and filmmaker, Zanemvula “Zakes” Mda led the ceremony, hailing the new center as…
Resource type: Speech
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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 Corner Office, Non-Profit Edition: A Practitioner’s Thoughts on Social Justice Management
Source: Gara LaMarche
Social justice management should be both more humane and tougher, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech at the Yale School of Management. I was at first flattered when I heard that students here at the Yale School of Management…
Resource type: Speech
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Why on Earth Would a Foundation Try to Get Rid of All of Its Money?
Source: Gara LaMarche
The reasons behind The Atlantic Philanthropies’ decision to spend all of its endowment are outlined in this 2009 speech by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Annual Meeting of Delaware Valley Grantmakers in Philadelphia. My talk this afternoon poses the question, which I…
Resource type: Speech
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Waiting for Fahd: One Family’s Hope for Life Beyond Guantánamo
Source: Center for Constitutional Rights
This heartrending documentary tells the story of Fahd Ghazy, a Yemeni national unlawfully detained at Guantánamo since he was 17. Fahd is now 30. Through moving interviews with his beloved family, “Waiting for Fahd” paints a vivid portrait of the life that awaits a man who,…
Resource type: Video
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The 2% Death Penalty: How a Minority of Counties Produce Most Death Cases at Enormous Costs to All
Source: Death Penalty Information Center
Only two percent of U.S. counties have been responsible for the majority of cases leading to executions since 1976, according to a report by the Death Penalty Information Center. This video summary of the report shows how the disparate and highly clustered use of the…
Resource type: Video
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Atlantic Insights: Government Partnerships & Engagement
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
As detailed in this new Atlantic Insights, partnering and engaging with government was a key strategy in the foundation’s work to provide people with opportunity, dignity and equity. The volume’s three case studies show how Atlantic engaged with government to help: Keep U.S. students off the…
Resource type: Research Report