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Providing Better Legal Defence for the Poor in Texas
More than 15 per cent of Texas’ 22 million people live below the poverty line – most of them in rural areas. Texas is one of 16 states that require county governments to provide a majority of funding for indigent legal defence services. Each county…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Social Justice and the Life Course
Source: Gara LaMarche
Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, addressed the National University of Ireland-Galway’s Life Course Institute Seminar. He commented that Life Course projects are important because they are not just about “treating” disadvantage in old age or in youth, but are about breaking…
Resource type: Speech
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Commencement at the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools
Source: Gara LaMarche
Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO addressed the 2010 graduating class at the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools in Haley Farm, Knoxville, Tennessee. I want to start out by saying that I have no recollection of the commencement address when I graduated from St. Bernard’s…
Resource type: Speech
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Lessons Learned from Health Care Reform – ‘Will They Get It Right?’
In March 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The bill could transform health care in the United States, and expand access for tens of millions. But the hardest part – implementation – still lies ahead. In this brief…
Resource type: Video
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Lessons Learned from Health Care Reform – ‘What Was Won’
In March 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. What does the bill actually do? In this brief video highlight from The Atlantic Philanthropies’ recent event, “The Historic Passage of Health Care Reform,” Judy Feder of Georgetown University and…
Resource type: Video
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Lessons Learned from Health Care Reform – ‘The Politics of Reform’
In the yearlong campaign for health care reform in the United States, politics almost derailed the push for change several times. From the “Tea Party” protests to the election of Republican U.S. Senator Scott Brown in Massachusetts, political brinksmanship around reform often overshadowed the substance…
Resource type: Video
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Marchers hit streets calling on Obama to act immediately on federal immigration reform
May 2, 2010 – Chicago Angered by a controversial Arizona immigration law, tens of thousands of protesters, including 50,000 alone in Los Angeles, rallied in cities nationwide demanding President Obama tackle immigration reform immediately.
Resource type: Video
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The Key Role of Advocacy Funding in the U.S. Health Reform Debate
Source: Gara LaMarche
The reasons why The Atlantic Philanthropies made what may be the largest U.S. advocacy grant ever in order to support health reform are outlined by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Grantmakers in Health conference in Orlando, Florida. Occasionally it is better not…
Resource type: Speech
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Guns and Roses: Advocacy in an Emerging Democracy
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
This publication is an attempt to distil the learnings from three important books that were published during 2009 and which provide valuable insights into doing advocacy in an emerging constitutional democracy in South Africa. Written by Marian Nell & Janet Shapiro for The Atlantic Philanthropies…
Resource type: Case Study
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Too Close for Comfort? Obama and the Foundations
Source: Gara LaMarche
Foundations should take a stance of engaged and critical discomfort with government no matter who is in charge, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech at the Hudson Institute-Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center. I am always glad to take…
Resource type: Speech