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A Strategic Evaluation of Public Interest Litigation in South Africa

This report outlines key challenges facing the public interest litigation environment in South Africa, strategies to achieve maximum impact, and success factors essential to ensuring that litigation succeeds and achieves maximum social change. More »

Groundbreaking New Survey Asks American Workers, Ages 44-70, About Longer Working Lives

The 2008 MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures Encore Career Survey estimates that between 5.3 and 8.4 million Americans have already launched "encore careers," positions that combine income and personal meaning with social impact. More »

Financial Times: Philanthropy can be made to measure

Gara LaMarche provides suggestions to philanthropists on how to use evaluation to maximize their impact. More »

The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune

Conor O'Clery's The Billionaire Who Wasn't documents the story of Atlantic founder Chuck Feeney, who made his fortune as co-founder of Duty Free Shops and secretly transferred all of his wealth to The Atlantic Philanthropies in 1984. Click here to read reviews of the book. More »

Atlantic Currents

July 2, 2008

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

Philanthropy and Government: Striking the Right Balance

Atlantic Reports

May 2008

Publications series sharing what Atlantic has learned

Why Supporting Advocacy Makes Sense for Foundations

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