Results List
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What is EPIM?
Source: European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM)
To learn more about the current projects funded by EPIM, visit the EPIM website or download the 2012-2015 project descriptions booklet. European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM) is an Atlantic grantee through the Network of European Foundations for Innovative Cooperation.
Resource type: Video
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Recovering Unclaimed Benefits for Older Adults in the United States and Northern Ireland
Buddy Beckley of Baldwin County, Alabama. Photo: NCOA At age 66, Buddy Beckley of Baldwin County, Alabama, was in a desperate financial situation. He faced being locked out of his home – a trailer – because he owed back rent. After paying for Medicare premiums…
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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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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Fly-Over Cornell’s Proposed NYC Tech Campus
An animated aerial view of Cornell’s proposed NYC Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island. If built today, the campus’s 150,000-square-foot core academic building would be the largest net-zero energy building in the eastern United States and among the top four largest such buildings in the United…
Resource type: Video
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Ten Years On: Confirming Impacts from Research Investment
Source: PA Consulting Group
This report finds that the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions was pivotal in stimulating the development of research performance in universities across the Republic of Ireland. Authors of the study note that the programme put in place research infrastructure, built basic research capability and drove a…
Resource type: Case Study
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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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Developing One of the Major Bioscience Research Centres in the World
Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer // The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center has ranked among the U.S.’s top 10 hospitals (according to U.S. News & World Report, 2012-13) for more than 10 years. Adding to its worldwide reputation in cardiovascular…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Making a Difference in the Lives of At-risk Youth and Their Communities
The local inner city communities of Fatima Mansions and Dolphin House in Rialto in Dublin are among the most disadvantaged in Ireland. For more than three decades, the community has struggled to achieve local government support for the area – culminating in the achievement of…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Combatting Stereotypes of Gays and Lesbians
Under democracy and a progressive constitution, South Africa’s gay and lesbian community has won rights unequalled just about anywhere in the world. But for the majority of the country’s gays and lesbians – those who are black or poor – these rights largely exist only…
Resource type: Grantee Story
