Results List
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Atlantic Insights: Government Partnerships & Engagement
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
As detailed in this new Atlantic Insights, partnering and engaging with government was a key strategy in the foundation’s work to provide people with opportunity, dignity and equity. The volume’s three case studies show how Atlantic engaged with government to help: Keep U.S. students off the…
Resource type: Research Report
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Atlas Learning Project: Resources for Funding Policy Change
Source: Center for Evaluation Innovation
Helping foundations be more aggressive and adaptive in their support for advocacy and policy change. Learn more > Foundations and advocates can no longer rely on the same old approaches to be effective when it comes to policy change. Progress is too vulnerable to not…
Resource type: Research Report
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The $3.4 Trillion Mistake: The Cost of Mass Incarceration and Criminalization
Source: Communities United, Make the Road New York and Padres & Jóvenes Unidos
This report details how criminal justice policies in the United States resulted in expenditures of $3.4 trillion over the last three decades that the authors say could have been better spent addressing the root causes of crime and to meet critical community needs. Researchers found that…
Resource type: Research Report
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Advocacy, Politics & Philanthropy: A Reflection on a Decade of Immigration Reform Advocacy
Source: Innovation Network
This Innovation Network report examines the impact and shares lessons from Atlantic’s $70.3 million effort between 2004 and 2014 to reform the U.S. immigration system. Among the topics covered: How the campaign unified multiple advocates behind an agenda focused on comprehensive federal reform. The trade-offs…
Resource type: Research Report
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Tilling The Field: Lessons About Philanthropy’s Role in School Discipline Reform
Source: Leila Fiester, Atlas Learning Project
Anyone concerned about how the futures of millions of children are jeopardized because of discipline practices that unfairly exclude students from U.S. public schools will be heartened by this story about how transformative change can happen. It’s a story of how students and parents, civil…
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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Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected
Source: African American Policy Forum and Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies
Black girls in the U.S. were suspended six times more than white girls, according to recent federal data. Girls of color also face specific factors that push them out of school, like sexual assault, criminalization and teacher stereotyping, yet girls are often excluded from current…
Resource type: Research Report
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The Path to a People-Centered Health System
Source: Community Catalyst
Millions of Americans now have access to health coverage and care, thanks to the Affordable Care Act. But the health care system in the United States is still notable for its variable quality, inefficiency, high costs, health inequities and lack of responsiveness to the needs…
Resource type: Research Report
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The 2% Death Penalty: How a Minority of Counties Produce Most Death Cases at Enormous Costs to All
Source: Death Penalty Information Center
Only two percent of U.S. counties have been responsible for the majority of cases leading to executions since 1976, according to this report by the Death Penalty Information Center. The disparate and highly clustered use of the death penalty raises serious questions of unequal, costly…
Resource type: Research Report
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Harvest Time for The Atlantic Philanthropies – 2011-2012: Focus, Exit, and Legacy
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
This report is the third in a series to chronicle the concluding years of The Atlantic Philanthropies, the largest foundation ever to decide to commit its entire endowment in a limited timeframe and then close its doors. It covers events that occurred from late 2010…
Resource type: Research Report