Results List
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Stepping Into the Fight: Legal Advocacy for Funders and Nonprofits
Legal advocacy – also known as advocacy through the courts – uses the judicial system to advance social change goals. This is often done through bringing forward a legal case in court that focuses on improving a situation for a particular group of disadvantaged people.…
Resource type: Research Report
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Enhancing Funders’ and Advocates’ Effectiveness: The Processes Shaping Collaborative Advocacy for Health System Accountability in South Africa
Source: The Foundation Review
This Foundation Review article, authored by by Barbara Klugman and Waasila Jassat, examines five Atlantic-supported advocacy efforts designed to improve access to quality health care for all South Africans and reduce health inequities across the country. Atlantic supported five organizations that, individually and sometimes collaboratively, advocated to improve the quality…
Resource type: Research Report
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Civil Rights Suspended
Source: Advocates for Children of New York
Under the U.S Constitution, as well as federal and New York state laws, students and their parents have the right to due process prior to suspension or expulsion from school. Yet a significant number of New York City charter schools have adopted discipline policies that…
Resource type: Research Report
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The Irish National Dementia Strategy
Source: Department of Health Ireland
Dementia affects about 50,000 people in Ireland today and that number is expected to triple by 2041. For the first time, the Republic of Ireland has published a centralised and coordinated national strategy aimed at improving the lives of people living with dementia. The strategy’s…
Resource type: Research Report
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You Can’t Fix What You Don’t Look At: Acknowledging Race in Addressing Racial Discipline Disparities
Source: The Discipline Disparities Collaborative
Recent evidence shows that racial disparities in school discipline are continuing to worsen. According to the latest federal data, black students are suspended and expelled at a rate three and a half times greater than white students. On average, 5 percent of white students are…
Resource type: Research Report
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Catalysing LGBT Equality and Visibility in Ireland
Source: Dragonfly Partners
From 2004-2013, The Atlantic Philanthropies provided grant funding to support equality and visibility for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the Republic of Ireland. Atlantic focused its funding on four organisations with the objective of improving LGBT people’s access to rights and services.…
Resource type: Research Report
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Irish National Audit of Dementia Care in Acute Hospitals
Source: The Irish National Audit of Dementia
Admission to an acute hospital can be distressing and disorienting for a person with dementia. These hospitals currently lack standards for assessing and caring for the particular needs of patients with dementia, even though dementia may affect up to 25% of hospital in-patients at any…
Resource type: Research Report
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Stop, Question and Frisk Policing Practices in New York City: A Primer
Source: Center on Race, Crime and Justice at John Jay College
This primer, funded by Atlantic and the Open Society Foundation, presents extensive statistics about the troubling police practice of stopping, questioning, and frisking pedestrians in New York City. The Numbers Data show stops tend to be concentrated in a handful of police precincts and that…
Resource type: Research Report
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Evaluation of a Programme to Help Parents of Teenagers
Source: Institute for Child Care Research, Queen’s University Belfast
Parenting teens can be tricky and confusing. One of the few rigorously-evaluated programmes to help parents tackle those challenges has demonstrated convincing evidence of its effectiveness, researchers reported. The programme — Odyssey, Parenting Your Teen — is a potential model for more countries than Northern Ireland, where…
Resource type: Research Report
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Striking the Rights Chord: Perspectives on Advancement from Human Rights Organisations in South Africa
Source: Inyathelo: The South African Institute for Advancement
When a major funder exits a field, its absence can sometimes prove extremely challenging to the civil society organisations it has supported. As a limited life foundation, The Atlantic Philanthropies are supporting projects to contribute to a growing body of knowledge that positions nonprofit organisations…
Resource type: Research Report