Results List
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Health and Wellbeing: Active Ageing for Older Adults in Ireland
Source: The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
Evidence from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing People aged 54 and older in Ireland continue to make substantial contributions to their families and the communities in which they live, according to the third report of results from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA).…
Resource type: Research Report
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State Sanctioned Child Poverty and Exclusion
Source: Irish Refugee Council
Over one-third of the residents in State accommodation for asylum-seekers—known as Direct Provision—are children. With the length of time in the asylum process ranging from less than a year to more than seven years, these children spend a significant proportion of their childhood in Direct…
Resource type: Research Report
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Celebrating 10 Years of Migrant Rights Centre Ireland
Resource type: Video
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Fifty Plus in Ireland 2011
Source: Trinity College Dublin
Older people in Ireland play a valuable role in supporting their families and communities, are generally happy with life and have significant unmet health needs, according to this report by Trinity College Dublin. This is the first in a series of four reports from The…
Resource type: Research Report
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CNBC – Should We Scrap the Social Security Cap?
Airtime: Tues. Nov. 30 2010 | CNBC In this video, Eric Kingson of Social Security Works, an Atlantic grantee, and David John of the Heritage Foundation discuss whether we should scrap the payroll tax cap for Social Security. View Original Source
Resource type: Video
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Providing a Vital Social-Security Safety Net
Greater access to services and protection of socio-economic rights are at the heart of a successful Atlantic-funded programme in South Africa. And individual women are leading the effort to provide a vital social-security safety net in poor rural communities. Based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal,…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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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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Irish president candidates response on youth issues at MacGill Summer School 2011
Ruairí McKiernan from www.SpunOut.ie, an Atlantic grantee, asks Mary Davis, Gay Mitchell, Michael D. Higgins and Sean Gallagher about what they would do for young people within their first year. Session chaired by Sean O’Rourke of RTE. Related: > Political ‘system’ putting off youth,…
Resource type: Video
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60 Groups Launch Campaign to Fight Social Security Cuts
Video from the Strengthen Social Security campaign. For more information, see press release here.
Resource type: Video
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Social Justice Journalism: Lessons from Health-e News
Source: Barbara Klugman
This report examines how quality advocacy journalism from Health-e News, a South African nonprofit news service focused on the country’s delivery of public health services, is helping advance the goal of achieving a healthy, equitable and just nation. Health-e News, which was founded in 1999, came to prominence…
Resource type: Research Report