Results List
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Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa
Source: Social Action Media
“Soft Vengeance” will be broadcast on the World Channel (WLIW 21 in New York) on the dates and times below. Visit the World Channel site to find your local station. Wednesday, July 20 at 8pm ET Thursday, July 21 at 12am ET, 8am ET and 2pm ET Saturday,…
Resource type: Video
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How Private Wealth Can Change the World
Source: By Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, delivered this speech at an international conference held by the Robert Bosch Stiftung in Berlin: The Era of Citizens – How Civil Society and Foundations are Shaping the Future. The conference was opened by German…
Resource type: Speech
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South Africa’s Journey to Democracy: Reflections by Albie Sachs
Source: C. S. Mott Foundation
How has South Africa changed in its journey toward democracy? Albie Sachs, an internationally known human rights activist who spent twenty-four years in exile during apartheid, reflects on this question. Sachs, 78, lost his arm in a bomb attack by South African security agents during his…
Resource type: Video
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The Best Place to Grow Old
The Great Northern Haven housing development is a project of the Netwell Centre at the Dundalk Institute of Technology, which is developing new ideas that enhance the quality of life and well-being of older people and those who care for them, through integrated community-oriented services,…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Musina Legal Advice Office
The United Reform Church in Musina, South Africa, has provided a safe haven for refugees coming into the country from Zimbabwe. Most of the women refugees there were either tortured by Zimbabwean security forces or raped while crossing the border, and the church provided them…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Ensuring Human Rights Protections and Access to Justice
“I just kept fighting to be free. I knew I couldn’t give up because if I returned to Sierra Leone my life would be in danger.” That is how 25-year-old Badiatu Tunis, a Sierra Leone native residing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, describes being detained by the…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Promoting Immigrants’ Rights
Immigration is one of the biggest issues facing Ireland in the coming years. The rise in the immigrant population accounted for some 30 per cent of the total increase in population between 1996 and 2002. By 2020, it could account for as much as 50…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Creating Integrated Schools To Improve Tolerance and Promote Peace
Northern Ireland is a deeply divided society where religious segregation is a feature of almost every aspect of life. For example, 94 per cent of children are educated in religiously segregated schools and, unsurprisingly, research shows that high numbers of young children already have sectarian…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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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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The Local Impact of Global Philanthropy
Source: Gara LaMarche
Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, participated on a panel of The Settlement Summit: Inclusion, Innovation, Impact. He shared his thoughts and six suggestions on the responsibility of American foundations when working abroad, which are also applicable to grantmaking in other places…
Resource type: Speech