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A Major Milestone for Dementia in Ireland: A National Strategy
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
In December 2014, the Irish government published a National Dementia Strategy, designed to tackle one of the key health challenges of the 21st Century. This was a watershed moment and one that Atlantic had been working towards for several years. In this video, Mary Sutton,…
Resource type: Video
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Philanthropy New York, Foundation Center Report Benchmarks Diversity at New York City Foundations and Nonprofits
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
While New York City foundations and the nonprofit organizations they support have racially diverse staffs, the diversity decreases at the highest levels of seniority, according to a new report by Philanthropy New York and the Foundation Center. The first study to examine the diversity of…
Resource type: News
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How the Center on Budget Will Shape the Future
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Atlantic is supporting the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) to establish a new Institute for proactive policy development and implementation work on longer-term priorities regarding budget, revenue, safety-net, and social insurance policies that benefit low- and moderate-income families and individuals and are fiscally…
Resource type: Video
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On Mission Bay’s 10th Anniversary, Hospital Construction Surges Forward
Source: UCSF
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="320"] The new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, shown in this December 2012 photo, continues to take shape across the street from the research campus. Construction of the 289-bed state-of-the-art hospital complex for children, women and cancer patients is moving along…
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$125 Million Is Pledged to Big Medical Center
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By STEPHANIE STROM Despite a worldwide economic decline, the nine-figure gift is not dead. Charles F. Feeney, the iconoclastic philanthropist known as “the billionaire who wasn’t,” is giving $125 million to the University of California San Francisco Medical Center to support development of a complex…
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Archives at Cornell University
Housed at the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC) at Cornell University Library, our Archives are comprised of the paper and digital records kept at our offices in New York City, Ithaca, Bermuda, Dublin, Belfast, London, and Johannesburg. In the Archives, researchers can find…
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Our On-Going Legacy
While Atlantic’s grant-making has ended, our legacy remains an active catalyst of change. Through the Atlantic Fellows programs, future generations of leaders and change-makers are given support and resources as they strive for the advancement of fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies. Our legacy also continues…
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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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Our Work in the United States
Atlantic's grantees have touched the lives of millions. These short films share a few of their stories.
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Learning Center in Vietnam Opens at Can Tho University
Source: Vietnam News Brief Service
The most modern $9.14 million learning resource center in Vietnam was officially opened at Can Tho University on April 24, bring the total number of centers of this kind in the country to three to date, a local newspaper reported. Built on the site of…
Resource type: News