Results List
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Defending Democracy and Delivering on the Constitution
Equal Education student members march for better school infrastructure. Photo: Equal Education Throngs of students protested outside the South African Parliament in Cape Town on a sunny afternoon in February 2011. Wearing green T-shirts and carrying handscrawled signs, they set up an outdoor classroom complete…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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CRE 30th Anniversary Gala Video Honouring Fran Barrett
Community Resource Exchange honuored Fran Barrett at their 30th Anniversary Gala on 16 March 16 2011. Prior to joining the Atlantic Philanthropies in 2010 as Director of Capacity Building, Ms. Barrett served as the Executive Director of Community Resource Exchange (CRE). About CRE: For over…
Resource type: Video
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The Local Impact of Global Philanthropy
Source: Gara LaMarche
Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, participated on a panel of The Settlement Summit: Inclusion, Innovation, Impact. He shared his thoughts and six suggestions on the responsibility of American foundations when working abroad, which are also applicable to grantmaking in other places…
Resource type: Speech
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Taking Account of Race as a Philanthropic Imperative
Source: Gara LaMarche
Foundations must take account of race in all of their work in order to get beyond racism, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies President and CEO, in this speech at the Waldemar Nielsen Issue Forums in Philanthropy, Georgetown Public Policy Institute in Washington. You might…
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 Atlantic Philanthropies: Northern Ireland
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Jean Brown (left) and Renee Crawford, longtime leaders of Suffolk Lenadoon Interface Group, have worked together for over 20 years to forge a better life for their community. Photo: Richard Wade This book tells the story of how The Atlantic Philanthropies’ investment of $570 million from…
Resource type: Research Report
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The Atlantic Philanthropies: Republic of Ireland
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
This book tells the story of The Atlantic Philanthropies’ 30 years of grantmaking in the Republic of Ireland — investments totaling $1.3 billion to help breathe life into university research, support major advances in human rights, and underwrite joint efforts with government to improve services…
Resource type: Research Report
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Shared Education Improves Learning in Northern Ireland
Sharing education involves two or more schools from different community backgrounds working together to share expertise, classes, facilities and teachers. Northern Ireland is a deeply divided society and the education system reflects the level of separation between Protestant and Catholic communities. More than 90 per…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Racial Profiling in a “Post-Racial” America
In May 2011, The Atlantic Philanthropies and The New Press hosted a discussion about racial profiling in the United States. The panel included former litigator and law professor Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, and former federal prosecutor and law professor Paul Butler,…
Resource type: Video
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Making the Most of Out-of-School Time
Every year, millions of youth leave US middle schools ill-prepared to enter high school. As a result, more than 25 per cent of high school students do not graduate within five years; and at least 10 per cent drop out entirely. Effective out-of-school-time (OST) programmes…
Resource type: Grantee Story