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Giving While Living Giving While Living. Marking Nearly Four Decades of Achievements: 1982–2018 “I had one idea that never changed in my mind —that you should use your wealth to help people.” Chuck Feeney Front Cover: Tristan Adams at home in Cape Town, South Africa, after recovering from heart surgery at the pediatric intensive care unit at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. Atlantic funded the hospital’s new operating theaters. Photo: George Mahashe, Magnum Foundation Back Cover: Dao Thi Diep is able to take care of her family again following cataract surgery on both eyes during the Fred Hollows Foundation’s free operation campaign in Quang Tri province in Viet Nam. Atlantic worked to improve access to health care in the country. Photo: Audra Melton Contents Giving While… Supporting Aging 6–11 Growing Children and Youth 12–17 Improving Population Health 18–27 Advancing Reconciliation & Human Rights 28–37 Strengthening Bermuda 38–41 Building Founding Chairman 42–53 Leading Atlantic Fellows 54–59 Living The Giving Pledge 60–63 1 “Our grants, now completed, are like sown seeds which will bear the fruit of good works long after we turn out the lights at The Atlantic Philanthropies.” Chuck Feeney, founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies, December 2016 Nearly four decades ago, Chuck Feeney made the unprecedented decision to donate virtually all his wealth to The Atlantic Philanthropies. A believer in Giving While Living, he wanted his money to be used to better humanity during his lifetime. In keeping with those wishes, the foundation in the years since committed all its resources to advance opportunity, equity and human dignity and to create lasting improvements for those who are unfairly disadvantaged or vulnerable to life’s circumstances. In deciding which organizations and people to support, our work reflected Chuck Feeney’s approach to philanthropy: a combination of modesty, pragmatism, and making good-value investments. Two fundamental themes carried through our grantmaking: the quality of our lives is inextricably linked to our health and the freedoms and advances of humanity are nourished by education. We are extremely grateful to our grantees and proud of their work to make life better for millions of people around the world. 2 We believe all people have the right to opportunity, equity and dignity. 3 Over the course of Atlantic’s history, there have been thousands of success stories. 4 These are just a few. 5 6 Aging Giving While… Supporting. Growing older is a constant we all share. To ensure that people in their later years are economically secure, can access quality health care and have opportunities to make meaningful contributions to their communities, Atlantic invested in organizations focused on the needs of older adults, especially the disadvantaged and vulnerable. We also supported age-friendly communities and policies. 7 Aging $26.9b National Coalition for Aging’s BenefitsCheckUp® program has helped over 7.1 million people discover $26.9 billion in benefits in the United States. 500 500 Purpose Prize winners and Fellows are contributing to the greater good and shaping a stronger narrative about the possibilities of our aging society. $93m Over 26,000 people in Northern Ireland collected social security benefits, totaling $93 million, between 2007 and 2012 through the Access to Benefits project. 8 Aging Aging Well Never Grows Old Tapping the Talent of Older People for the In the United States, the National Coalition for Aging’s Greater Good BenefitsCheckUp® program, an online tool partially funded When Barbara Young transformed herself from immigrant by Atlantic, has helped over 7.1 million people discover nanny into passionate advocate, she launched an encore $26.9 billion in benefits. NCOA has also helped find and career with the power to change the lives of domestic enroll seniors in health-related benefit programs. One such workers across the United States. initiative, related to Medicare’s prescription drug program, generated a 138:1 rate of return on Atlantic’s $7.9 million Her work to improve the wages, labor protections and investment. training of caregivers for the aging population, through Caring Across Generations, earned Young a Purpose Prize Building on this success, Atlantic replicated this approach in 2013. That’s the award given to amazing people over 60 in Northern Ireland. It provided support to five nongovern- by Encore.org, the San Francisco-based nonprofit aiming mental organizations to develop “Access to Benefits” to help people pursue encore careers: second acts for the web-based tools and create a region-wide initiative to greater good. enroll vulnerable older adults. Achievements included: In the United States, Atlantic funded both Encore.org and • Creation of Northern Ireland Pensioners Parliament in Caring Across Generations as part of a larger initiative to 2011, which has enabled more than 500 older people provide greater opportunities for older people to work, annually to represent their interests to government learn and volunteer as well as to age in place with dignity and policymakers and economic security. • $20 million from government to provide 80,000 older Work conditions for elderly caregivers are often similar people with winter relief payments through the to those of nannies: low pay, few, if any benefits and high “Can’t Heat or Eat” campaign turnover. Young says her advocacy work is an effort to • Over 26,000 people collected social security benefits, “support seniors like me to receive the support we need totaling $93 million, between 2007 and 2012 through the to age in our homes and communities while improving the Access to Benefits project home-care jobs that make that possible.” • Nearly a 19-times return on investment of benefits for Since its launch in 2005, The Purpose Prize has helped tell older people, including housing, health and care, and the story of creativity and innovation in the second half of community services life of more than 500 honorees. Moreover, with Atlantic’s support, the Northern Ireland Recovering Unclaimed Benefits for Older Adults Social Security Agency has strengthened the infrastructure in the United States and Northern Ireland for innovative partnerships with community and voluntary Many people struggle to make ends meet in their later organizations to increase the uptake of benefits for older years. To help, Atlantic invested in programs for seniors people. All told, these initiatives provided a huge rate of to recover unclaimed government benefits in the United return in recovered benefits for vulnerable older adults and States and Northern Ireland. much peace of mind. Pages 6 and 7: Mauricio Lim Miller, founder of the Family Independence Initiative, a nonprofit that helps families out of poverty, was named a Purpose Prize winner in 2014 at age 68. Photo: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 9 Aging Transforming Palliative Care in Ireland In February 2012, the staff and patients at Marymount At least half of all deaths in Ireland each year are in acute University Hospital and Hospice in Cork moved from an hospitals or hospices, increasing the need for better end- old Victorian red brick building where the hospice had of-life care in those settings. operated for 141 years to a new, best-in-class hospital that The Hospice-Friendly Hospitals (HfH) program of the Irish is the most advanced palliative care facility in Ireland. The Hospice Foundation is a unique model of caregiving that visionary behind this new building was Founding Chairman ensures that end-of-life care is central to hospital practice. Chuck Feeney, and today Marymount serves as a model of The program operates in 80 percent of acute hospitals and excellence in Ireland and a blueprint for hospice develop- up to 50 community hospitals throughout the country. HfH ment worldwide. surveyed thousands of staff and relatives of patients to Atlantic’s effort to ensure high-quality end-of-life care assess the quality of care provided by Irish hospitals during began with a 2004 survey that found that too few people the last week of life. This study resulted in: near death in Ireland were receiving appropriate hospice • The production of “Quality Standards for End-of-Life Care and palliative care. The study revealed huge disparities in in Hospitals,” a first in the European Union access to care and significant gaps in service, prompting Atlantic to make investments to help turn Ireland into one • An evidence-based “Ethical Framework for End-of-Life of the best places to experience end-of-life care. Care,” unique in the world • Over 1,000 hospital staff trained to enhance interaction with patients and families “What Atlantic did was get some big things started—buildings, programmes, experts, forming a movement. Those things take money and leadership, and Atlantic supplied both. And you can’t do it with just one project. Atlantic seeded a lot of activity in a lot of places. That’s what made the difference.” Tony Proscio, The Atlantic Philanthropies in the Republic of Ireland, 1988–2010 (an unpublished case study) 10 Aging Grantees Are Creating Blueprints for Care A program established by the Irish Hospice Foundation and and Collaboration the Health Service Executive, and that Atlantic supported, is providing practical examples of how hospitals can offer Atlantic support helped increase access to appropriate quiet and peaceful spaces for family members that help care in home, hospice and hospital settings; increased them cope with one of the most trying times in their lives. awareness of palliative care practices; and facilitated coordination among practitioners to improve practice The Design & Dignity Programme has supported 24 and inform health policy. demonstration projects in hospitals around Ireland that show what a difference a calm, comfortable, and inviting • The Marymount Hospice serves as the specialist hub for environment can make.
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