Results List
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New Mexico ISS Convening Remarks
Source: Jackie Williams Kaye
Remarks of Jackie Williams Kaye, Strategic Learning & Evaluation Executive, The Atlantic Philanthropies, at the New Mexico Convening of Integrated Services in Schools (ISS). I am very happy to be here on behalf of Atlantic together with my colleagues Mini, Nicole and Alice. Alice Duff…
Resource type: Speech
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How the Center on Budget Will Shape the Future
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Atlantic is supporting the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) to establish a new Institute for proactive policy development and implementation work on longer-term priorities regarding budget, revenue, safety-net, and social insurance policies that benefit low- and moderate-income families and individuals and are fiscally…
Resource type: Video
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No Place by the Fire: The Story of South African Ex-Combatants and the National Peace Accord Trust
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
During the political negotiations for a democratic South Africa and in the formative years following the first free and fair elections in 1994, a crucial group of people were largely overlooked—the estimated 80,000 ex-combatants who had fought to end the country’s apartheid system. This report…
Resource type: Case Study
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Creating Excellence in Dementia Care: A Research Review for Ireland’s National Dementia Strategy
Source: The School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College, Dublin and The Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, NUIG
More people in Ireland have dementia than cancer or heart disease yet it has been a largely invisible and underfunded health issue, according to a new report by Suzanne Cahill and Maria Pierce from the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College, Dublin;…
Resource type: Research Report
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Transforming Human Services for Older Adults: Progress Report 2007–2010
Source: Alliance for Children and Families
This report, funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies, examines the effect and impact of solutions generated by the Alliance for Children and Families’ New Age of Ageing Initiative at the midpoint of its five-year pilot project. The project aims to increase the number of trained professionals…
Resource type: Research Report
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National Youth Summit Opening
On February 26, 2011, the Department of Education hosted a national youth summit to empower students and listen to what they had to say about education. This video was a recap of the youth listening tour that visited 9 cities across the country preceding the…
Resource type: Video
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Breaking Ground on UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay
The groundbreaking of UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, a state-of-the-art 289-bed hospital complex, was a momentous occasion for both the local community and the global health community at large. Hospital administrators, medical professionals and community leaders were on hand to discuss the importance of…
Resource type: Video
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Pre-Intervention Assessments of Primary Health Care and Prevention Services in Viet Nam
Source: Population Council
The results of a commune-level study of health care services in Khanh Hoa and Da Nang provinces in Viet Nam are examined in this report by the Population Council, prepared for The Atlantic Philanthropies.
Resource type: Research Report
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Ageing in Bermuda
Source: Fordham University, Ravazzin Center for Social Work Research in Aging
To meet the needs of a growing number of seniors in Bermuda, policymakers can take two initial key initiatives: establish a caregiver resource center and set up a care information service on community resources for physicians and others, according to this report commissioned by The…
Resource type: Research Report
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Inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Source: CBS This Morning
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will open its doors to the public Sept. 24. “CBS This Morning” co-hosts Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell joined the museum’s founding director, Lonnie Bunch, for a tour of what makes the 19th and newest…
Resource type: Video