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Atlantic made a grant to Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors to conduct the following surveys, reports, guidance, and case studies on time-limited philanthropy and Giving While Living. Strategic time horizons–the length of time for which a philanthropic organization chooses to actively carry out its mission–have increasingly become…

Perhaps “deliberate deployment” should replace “spending down” in the philanthropic glossary.

Are foundations with set periods for spending down their assets more effective as grantmakers than their peers who are established to exist in perpetuity?

How can we achieve more impact through partnerships between philanthropy and government? What does philanthropy need to do differently to better work with government groups to address the 21st century’s most pressing problems? And how can better communication play a part in achieving these goals?…

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…

On 10 November 2010, The National Center for Family Philanthropy and The Chronicle of Philanthropy presented a teleconference on "Giving While Living" with Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, and Lenore Hanisch, Co-Executive Director and board and family member of the Quixote Foundation.The number of limited-life foundations is…

Irish billionaire Chuck Feeney is one of a growing number of philanthropists who want to make a difference now not tomorrow and a leading advocate for ‘giving while living’.The trend for giving in one’s lifetime and over a shorter time, rather than in perpetuity, is…

Colin McCrea addresses the challenges and rewards of Atlantic’s approach to philanthropy at the Institute of Philanthropy’s recent conference in London.   All of us involved in philanthropy would like to see more people giving more money in a more thoughtful way.  There is no…

Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, discussed his concerns about a growing need for a stronger moral framework for philanthropy at the Starr Forum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.   Forty-five years ago, a young aide named Bill Moyers sat in the…

The Defendant: Philanthropy at large. The Charge: Not fulfilling its mission of advancing the common good.The Sentence if Found Guilty: Loss of specialized tax status.Culminating the conference was Philanthropy on Trial, a courtroom "mockudrama" that sought to answer the question: Is philanthropy meeting its mission of…