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Innovative Grant-Making: Giving Voice to the Marginalised

This case study describes how a group of grant-makers formed a consortium of donors called the Multi Agency Grant Initiative (MAGI) to meet the needs of community-based service organisations and emerging membership-based social movements on the fringes or margins of the more mainstream development sector.

Foundations Sponsor Pre-Inaugural Service Ball

Atlantic Philanthropies and the Musk Foundation for the first time sponsored a pre-inaugural ball last night with the Huffington Post to celebrate "change in Washington, the rise of new media, and a renewed commitment to service and the environment."

Onetime Vietnamese Refugee Returns Home to Aid Others

As Programme Director for Atlantic's Population Health Programme, Dr. Le Nhan Phuong will oversee the grant maker's efforts to improve health inequities in South Africa, Vietnam, and elsewhere.

Funding Community Organizing: Social Change through Civic Participation

In this guide, funders and organizers discuss what makes community organizing unique and uniquely effective, how to manage grantee relationships over time, understanding the value of process, and the grantmaker’s special role in fostering change.

Atlantic Currents

January 12, 2009

Bi-weekly column from our CEO on issues most relevant to your work

Why on Earth Would a Foundation Try to Get Rid of All of Its Money?

Atlantic Reports

November 2008

Publications series sharing what Atlantic has learned

Lessons From A Communications Campaign For South Africa's Rural Poor


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