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Since coming to Atlantic a few years ago, I’ve become aware, on an almost daily basis, of the enormous impact that this formerly anonymous foundation has had over the years across a range of areas and geographies. One part of the story that should be more widely…

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The Atlantic Philanthropies are pleased to announce a grant totaling $350 million to Cornell University to support the Cornell University/Technion-Israel Institute of Technology’s consortium for the Applied Sciences NYC initiative. The consortium’s ground-breaking partnership with the City of New York seeks to build what will…

The business of making social change often has to start from the ground up.  Sometimes literally! Since its inception, The Atlantic Philanthropies has invested over $1.5 billion in a number of capital projects to build the infrastructure that enables health to be advanced, children and…

[caption id="attachment_10694" align="alignright" width="250"] Students attend 2012 commencement ceremony. Photo: Cornell University[/caption] The nearly $1 billion investment in Cornell University made by Atlantic and its Founding Chairman has enriched the experience of students and faculty on campus; strengthened its academics, research and athletics; and enabled…

With architectural design and aesthetics reflecting its mission of collaboration and innovation, Cornell Tech is dedicating a new type of urban campus on Roosevelt Island in the heart of New York City.

Although Chuck Feeney has kept a low profile, his generosity has served as a catalyst for extraordinary scientific breakthroughs. Chuck Feeney, one of Stanford's most generous yet least-known supporters, is on track to give away more than $7.5 billion to causes worldwide. PHOTO: Pascal Perich…

Deportations and detentions of undocumented immigrants are destroying families, according to a ground breaking report by the Applied Research Center (ARC). The report documents, for the first time, the national scale and scope of this problem.  When parents are detained or deported, their children are…

International Human Rights Day on 10 December marks the 63rd year of global recognition of our basic human equality and the continuous struggle to gain basic human rights for all individuals. Reconciliation & Human Rights made up the largest portion of Atlantic's 2010 grantmaking programmes — funding…

 SOURCE: Center for American ProgressMarian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund, wrote a piece for The Huffington Post arguing against the harshness of Alabama's anti-immigration law HB56. "Now children born in the USA, American citizens, are living in fear" of family separation, said…