Results List
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Mentoring Offers Promise in Classrooms
The educational system in Northern Ireland is not meeting the needs of individuals or society. 21% leave school without achieving the minimum standards for success; many leave with no qualifications at all. 23% of adults have no qualifications, and 28% are economically inactive. Three programmes…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Strategic Communication for Better Health
In Viet Nam, the shift in the burden of diseases from the infectious causes to chronic and behaviour-based illnesses requires effective health communication to be an essential component of public health interventions. Traditional information, education and communication campaigns developed by the government continue to be…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Working to Restore Sight in South Africa
In South Africa there are approximately 330,000 blind people, 80% of whom live in rural areas. Cataracts, though preventable and treatable by a simple and inexpensive means, cause blindness among more than 66% of blind people in South Africa. This figure increases to 80% among…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Prevention and Early Intervention for Children
“We never give up on any child, despite the complexity of their needs. We also witness key turning points – for example a child making friends for the first time or a parent supporting their child to stay in school,” says Suzanne Connolly, Director of…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Fund Our Schools, Not Prisons!
On March 30th, 2011, the Campaign for Nonviolent Schools will mobilize a march to fund our schools, not prisons. We extend this call to everyone invested in public education in our city; students, parents, workers and anyone who wants the best for their communities.. The…
Resource type: Video
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Marriage Equality – Civil Marriage for Gay and Lesbian People
Source: O'Carroll Associates and Hibernian Consulting
This case study, based on an evaluation of Marriage Equality’s work funded by Atlantic, describes the strategic learning points of Marriage Equality’s advocacy campaign to achieve the policy outcome of civil marriage for same-sex couples in the Republic of Ireland. Marriage Equality is an Atlantic…
Resource type: Case Study
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Elev8 New Mexico
Elev8 New Mexico, an initiative of the New Mexico Community Foundation, is a part of a national program focused on creating full-service community schools. At Elev8 schools, students and their families benefit from a full range of afterschool activities, a school-based health center, and family…
Resource type: Video
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Defend the State Pension, Older & Bolder Campaign
Older & Bolder Premiers Online Campaign Film Made By Award-Winning Director to Help Defend The State Pension 21 October 2010 Alliance to undertake nationwide lobby and petition campaign over coming weeks Government should focus on reforming tax reliefs rather than further cutting the State Pension…
Resource type: Video
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Social Justice and the Life Course
Source: Gara LaMarche
Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, addressed the National University of Ireland-Galway’s Life Course Institute Seminar. He commented that Life Course projects are important because they are not just about “treating” disadvantage in old age or in youth, but are about breaking…
Resource type: Speech
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Civil Partnership Bill passes in Ireland
The Irish government has passed, with support so overwhelming that a vote was not required, all stages of the Civil Partnership Bill, giving new legal rights to non-marital couples. Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said “it was one of the most important human rights pieces…
Resource type: Video
