Results List
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Somewhere Safe to Play
Source: Barnardos Ireland
When a group of young people in Tallaght needed somewhere safe to play, they decided to run a campaign asking South Dublin County Council to build them a playground. With the help of the Amplifying Voices initiative, the group got everyone in the community involved…
Resource type: Video
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The Valedictorian
Source: StoryCorps
Damon Smith had been suspended more than 20 times before entering high school. After working with Eric Butler, a restorative justice counselor, Smith graduated at the head of his class. Learn More > How Did this High School Student Go From Being Suspended 20 Times…
Resource type: Video
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Enriching a University to Strengthen Learning and Research
Students attend 2012 commencement ceremony. Photo: Cornell University The nearly $1 billion investment in Cornell University made by Atlantic and its Founding Chairman has enriched the experience of students and faculty on campus; strengthened its academics, research and athletics; and enabled the university to expand…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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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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School-Based Health Services Help Students Develop to Their Full Potential
Oakland sixth-grader Carlos Mazariego took his first trip away from home when he travelled to Washington, D.C., for a national Elev8 youth advocacy trip. He and nine other students met with staff from the offices of California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer and advocated…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Bringing Health Care Services to Rural South Africa
Dr. Lungile Hobe treats a patient. Photo: UYDF Half of South Africa’s population live in rural areas, but only 12 per cent of doctors practice there. Dr. Lungile Hobe often accompanied her mother, a nurse, to the local hospital in rural Mseleni; these childhood visits…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Ray’s Story: A Death Penalty Mistake
Ray Krone was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. “I was the 100th person exonerated from death row. So, there was lots of media attention when I got out. On that first day, a reporter asked me, ‘Ray, given your faith…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Strengthening Schools of Health To Improve National Health
The University of the Western Cape was established in 1959, during the days of apartheid, as a university for students classified as belonging to the “coloured” population of South Africa. During the past 30-plus years, the university has had a varied political, financial and academic…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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The Voice of Seniors in Northern Ireland
Older people are generally not aware of their rights and the legislation that exists to protect them. Advocacy on age-related issues has tended not to involve older people themselves, but age-sector nongovernment organisations (NGOs) have undertaken the issues on behalf of older people. Through a Seniors Platform funded…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Musina Legal Advice Office
The United Reform Church in Musina, South Africa, has provided a safe haven for refugees coming into the country from Zimbabwe. Most of the women refugees there were either tortured by Zimbabwean security forces or raped while crossing the border, and the church provided them…
Resource type: Grantee Story