Results List
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Treating the Primary Health Care System
Ca Lon with her daughter. Photo: Save the Children “The doctor saved my life,” declared Ca Lon, recalling how, after delivering her first child, she experienced profuse bleeding that put her life at risk. Luckily, Ms. Lon was in a district hospital in Khanh Hoa…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Strengthening Human Rights for the Disadvantaged
The Irish Human Rights Commission, the Belfast Agreement, the European Union Charter on Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, the European Convention on Human Rights and the proposed all-Ireland Charter of Rights present opportunities to achieve improvements in the ability of disadvantaged people to access the rights…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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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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Encouraging Respect for Differences While Recognising Shared Identities
The Forum on Migration and Communications (FOMACS), based in the Dublin Institute of Technology, is an innovative three-year media initiative (2007-2010) to produce broadcast, photographic and print stories on immigration and integration. The seven project partners aim to influence public opinion and shape immigration policy…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Reclaiming the Moral Life of Philanthropy
Source: Gara LaMarche
Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, discussed his concerns about a growing need for a stronger moral framework for philanthropy at the Starr Forum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Forty-five years ago, a young aide named Bill Moyers sat in the…
Resource type: Speech
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The Key Role of Advocacy Funding in the U.S. Health Reform Debate
Source: Gara LaMarche
The reasons why The Atlantic Philanthropies made what may be the largest U.S. advocacy grant ever in order to support health reform are outlined by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Grantmakers in Health conference in Orlando, Florida. Occasionally it is better not…
Resource type: Speech
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The State of our Union in Crisis: Widening the Lens of Children and Families
Source: Gara LaMarche
Keynote speech by Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, given at the Annual Conference of Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. This is an extraordinary moment to gather and reflect, as we have planned to do…
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