Results List
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South African Civil Society and Xenophobia
Source: Strategy & Tactics
This comprehensive 500-page report, coordinated by Strategy & Tactics, was written by some of South Africa’s leading social and political scientists as well as civil society activists. The report analyses the conditions that allowed xenophobic violence to erupt in South Africa in May 2008, leaving…
Resource type: Research Report
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Humanitarian Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons in South Africa
Source: Forced Migration Studies Programme
Civil society and government can learn key lessons from the humanitarian responses to the displacement of thousands of people in South Africa as a result of attacks against foreigners in 2008, according to this report by the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. This report…
Resource type: Research Report
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Bermuda Civil Society Project: Analysis of Social Service Agencies
Source: Root Cause
This report aims to increase understanding of the gaps and overlaps in services being provided to address social issues in Bermuda. It is part of the Bermuda Civil Society Project (BCSP), an independent research and data analysis initiative designed to clarify how nonprofit agencies and other…
Resource type: Research Report
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The Foundations of Civil Society
Source: Tony Proscio
This report presents findings from a review of Atlantic’s grantmaking between 1984-2001 to support the fields of nonprofits, philanthropy, and volunteering in the United States. Author Tony Proscio interviewed some three dozen nonprofit scholars and practitioners to gather their insights and observations about how Atlantic’s…
Resource type: Research Report
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Harvest Time for The Atlantic Philanthropies – 2012-2013: Decline & Rise
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
This report, the fourth in a series about The Atlantic Philanthropies’s concluding years, details unexpected turns in the foundation’s approach to commit its entire endowment in a limited time frame. The report covers late 2012 through the end of 2013, some three to four years…
Resource type: Research Report
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Winding Down the Atlantic Philanthropies – 2001-2009: The First Eight Years
Source: Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
This report is the first 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 addresses questions raised by the seminal decision made of Atlantic’s…
Resource type: Research Report
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Civil Partnership and Ireland: How a Minority Achieved a Majority
Source: Clear Thinking Communications & Center for Evaluation Innovation
In 2010, Ireland enacted some of the most far-reaching legal protections for gay and lesbian couples in the world. The case study describes the story of how this historic legislation gained passage in a largely Catholic country that just 16 years earlier had decriminalised homosexual…
Resource type: Research Report
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Some Reflections on Philanthropy and Government
Source: Gara LaMarche
Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, gives the Keynote Address at the Annual Meeting of the United Neighborhood Houses in New York City. I appreciate the invitation to share some thoughts with the board and staff members of the settlement houses and other…
Resource type: Speech
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Harvest Time for The Atlantic Philanthropies – 2013-2014: Final Priorities
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
This report is the fifth in a series on the concluding years of The Atlantic Philanthropies, the largest foundation ever to decide to put all its charitable assets to use in a fixed period of time and then close its doors. Covering late 2013 through the…
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