Results List
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The Campaign for Better Care: Summary Evaluation Findings
Source: Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
This evaluation of the Campaign for Better Care — an Atlantic-funded effort to include the voices and perspectives of vulnerable populations in health care so that it reflected their needs — found that although the foundation provided needed organizational support, resources are still limited in carrying…
Resource type: Evaluation
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Chuck Feeney, Bill Gates' and Warren Buffett’s Hero, Honored by Ireland Fund
Source: Irish Central
By Niall O'Dowd San Francisco: Chuck Feeney whose Atlantic Philanthropies foundation has given away $7.2 billion to worthy causes, many of them Irish, was honored by the American Ireland Fund at an emotional and deeply deserved event in his honor on Friday night. It was…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic’s Health Equity Champions
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Our grantees have led the way to fairer and better health care around the world. Meet some of them. [caption id="attachment_82595" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Photo: Magnum Foundation[/caption] One of the best things about working at The Atlantic Philanthropies is that we have the privilege of supporting extraordinary leaders and…
Resource type: News
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The Global Brain Health Institute Aims to Tackle Dementia
Source: Global Brain Health Institute
The Atlantic Philanthropies has given $177 million to Trinity College Dublin and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to establish the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI). GBHI will train at least 600 global leaders over 15 years in the United States, Ireland and around…
Resource type: Video
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Chuck Feeney, the Billionaire Who Wasn't, Pledges $177 Million to Universities to Fight Dementia
Source: Forbes
By Kerry A. Dolan Chuck Feeney, the cofounder of Duty Free Shoppers, was dubbed “the James Bond of philanthropy” by Forbes in 2012. For years, his charitable entity The Atlantic Philanthropies anonymously gave away tens of millions around the globe. It’s been operating in daylight…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic's Focus on Dementia Goes Global
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
For more than two decades Atlantic has invested in programs to strengthen the quality of our lives, with a major emphasis on addressing needs arising from a worldwide population living longer than ever. Part of that work has included support for initiatives to leverage the…
Resource type: News
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President of Ireland Joins the Bay Area Council In Honoring Marc Benioff and Chuck Feeney
Source: TMG Partners
Salesforce Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff and Duty Free Shoppers Group Founder Chuck Feeney were the guests of honor at the Bay Area Council’s 70th Anniversary Annual Dinner and 2015 Bay Area Business Hall of Fame gathering on Wednesday, October 28, at The Fairmont Hotel…
Resource type: News
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'Way Beyond the Buildings': UCSF Mission Bay Campus
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="650"] The goal of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building: Always Be Curing Cancer.[/caption] Atlantic invested heavily in UCSF’s Mission Bay campus—providing $290 million in grants—which helped realize many of the buildings on the site. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="300"] Camella…
Resource type: News
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NOT Spending Down: CEO Update
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
Atlantic is not a “spend down” foundation, although we’re often described as such. Yes, we will complete all of our grantmaking by the end of 2016. The term “spending down,” however, suggests a slow, inexorable depletion of assets, resources and impact or perhaps a rushed…
Resource type: News
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House Calls Are Making a Comeback
Source: The New York Times
A relic from the medical past — the house call — is returning to favor as part of some hospitals’ palliative care programs, which are sending teams of physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains and other workers to patients’ homes after they are discharged. The goal…
Resource type: News