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Racial Equity: South Africa and the United States
[caption id="attachment_19627" align="aligncenter" width="978"] Visitors at Constitution Hill look at the display at the Women's Goal Museum which used to house female political prisoners.[/caption] South Africa Atlantic began its work in racial equity in the nascent years of post-Apartheid South Africa. In 1991, Atlantic’s Founding…
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Archives at Cornell University
[caption id="attachment_83029" align="alignleft" width="208"] Chuck Feeney in Cornell's 1956 yearbook.[/caption] The Atlantic Philanthropies Archives are housed at Cornell University, Atlantic founder Chuck Feeney’s alma mater, in the Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC). Comprised of the paper and digital records primarily from…
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Why Did You Invest in the Regions That You Did?
Our founder, Chuck Feeney, had close connections to the regions where Atlantic made its major investments. In each, he and Atlantic saw opportunity to make a lasting difference within his lifetime.
Resource type: Big Question
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New $25m Fund for SA civil society groups working to advance constitutionalism
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Joint statement from the Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies Cape Town – Today the Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies announced the launch of a joint fund to support organisations promoting and advancing constitutionalism in…
Resource type: News
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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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Children’s Aid Society
$11,175,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Legal Aid Society
$150,000
Resource type: Grantee
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TASC Report: "Courage vital if we are to build flourishing and decent society"
Source: The Irish Times
Fergus O'FerrallOPINION: Those who have power to change have not the will and those with the desire remain powerless‘Irish society is being challenged to little less than to remould itself.”This was stated by President Michael D Higgins when launching a book of essays entitled Towards a…
Resource type: News
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The Alzheimer Society of Ireland Calls on the Government to Develop 'A Comprehensive and Robust National Dementia Strategy'
Source: The Alzheimer Society of Ireland
Maurice O’Connell (left) CEO of The Alzheimer Society of Ireland & Dr. Diarmuid O'Shea, HSE Clinical Director for the ElderlyNational Dementia Strategy needed urgently as dementia demographics in Ireland set to treble by 2041.The Alzheimer Society of Ireland has called on the Government to honour…
Resource type: News
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Cornell University – Program on Science Technology & Society
$25,000
Resource type: Grantee