Results List
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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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Expanding Social Security Benefits for Financially Vulnerable Populations
Source: Center for Community Change and Older Women's Economic Security Task Force
Social Security is critical to the economic security of older Americans, especially to women, people of color, low-wage earners, and same-sex couples. This white paper from the Older Women’s Economic Security Task Force and the Center for Community Change outlines five key policy changes to…
Resource type: Research Report
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Increasing Use of Benefits Programmes
In Northern Ireland, 40% of households rely on social security as their main source of income – and the number of people of pensionable age is projected to increase significantly from 266,000 in 2002 to 313,000 by 2017. However, as many as 35% of older…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Learning Lessons from The Atlantic Philanthropies and the Irish Government Working Together
Source: Institute of Public Administration
This report summarizes a roundtable held in April 2017 in Ireland to discuss how government and philanthropy can work together effectively. The discussions drew on lessons Atlantic and the Irish government learned from working together for more than a decade, starting in 2003. Over the…
Resource type: Research Report
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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 Atlantic Philanthropies’ Embrace of a Social Justice Approach to Grantmaking
Source: Gara LaMarche
The story behind The Atlantic Philanthropies’ embrace of social justice is recounted in this speech by Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, at the Ford Foundation Convening on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace in February 2009 in Cairo, Egypt. It is bracing…
Resource type: Speech
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Immigrants’ Rights
Source: Gara LaMarche
Immigrants must win a rightful place in U.S. society and will do so through the efforts of diverse communities working toward a just and fair society, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech accepting the Raul Yzaguirre President Award at…
Resource type: Speech
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What Ambitious Donors Can Learn From The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Experience Making Big Bets
Source: The Bridgespan Group
This report analyzes 25 of Atlantic’s “big bet” grants—those over $10 million or more to a single organization or focused initiative—and highlights impact and lessons. The report also discusses what worked and some of the challenges the foundation, its grantees and partners faced. Atlantic President…
Resource type: Research Report
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Northern Ireland (United Kingdom): Implementing Joined-up Governance for a Common Purpose
Source: OECD Public Governance Reviews
An assessment conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) of Northern Ireland’s public reform agenda credits the Atlantic Philanthropies with helping the government in its ongoing efforts to to transform and reform its public services to better meet the needs of its citizens.…
Resource type: Research Report
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Parenting Support for Every Parent
Source: UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway
A parenting programme can have a significant impact on the risk and protective factors that shape family life, and create population-wide benefit, according to this evaluation of the Triple P Positive Parenting Programme in the Midland counties of Longford and Westmeath. The parenting programme was…
Resource type: Research Report