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.”

Front Cover: Tristan Adams at home in Cape Town, South , 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 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 .” 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 .

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 . 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 collected social security benefits, totaling $93 million, between 2007 and 2012 through the Access to Benefits project.

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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 -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

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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)

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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. It has funded family rooms where palliative care services in Cork and surrounding areas loved ones can find a respite from the chaos and noise of a • The All-Ireland Institute for Hospice and Palliative hospital and make a cup of tea or take a rest. The program Care—a collaborative of 25 hospices, health and social has also supported new mortuaries where family members care organizations, and universities—promotes strate- can say goodbye to their relatives in a space that honors gic, evidence-based contributions to the policy/practice that passage. environment to deliver a better experience for patients and their families

• The Irish Association for Palliative Care has strengthened the size and scope of expertise in palliative care in Ireland Transforming Spaces for Patients and Families at the End of Life

One of the most difficult jobs of hospital staff is delivering bad news to patients and their loved ones. It can be even harder when that news has to be conveyed in the middle of a busy, noisy corridor. Or when relatives must navigate dank, out-of-the-way hallways to get to an outdated, industrial mortuary to view their family member. But in too many hospitals, such occurrences happen every day.

Marymount Hospice is considered a world-class palliative care facility. Photo: Magnum Foundation

11 12 Children & Youth Giving While… Growing. All children have a right to education, health, safety and a comprehensive set of services to help them reach their full potential. Our grantmaking addressed significant disparities in support systems for children and helped expand opportunities critical to their healthy and positive development.

13 Children & Youth 20% The number of suspensions and expulsions in U.S. public schools dropped 20 percent between 2012 and 2014. 22 As of May 2015, 22 states and the District of Columbia had revised their laws to require or encourage schools to limit the use of exclusionary discipline practices. 2014 The Departments of Education and Justice issued joint guidance to support state and local efforts to improve school climate and discipline.

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Keeping Kids In School So They Succeed

First-time visitors to Ralph Bunche High School quickly Between 2010 and 2014, Atlantic invested $47 million sense something different about the “feel” of the West to support school discipline reform efforts in U.S. public Oakland, campus, even if they can’t quite put schools, test and disseminate alternatives such as a name to what they see and sense among the students restorative justice, and build pressure for policy change and staff. But ask anyone—from a teacher to a student at the state, local, and national levels. to the office personnel—and they’ll quickly tell you Because Ralph Bunche High School doesn’t suspend or what makes the school different: it’s the commitment expel students, it has a track record of resolving conflicts to restorative justice as “a way of being together,” with conversations rather than confrontation. More than providing the framework for building and sustaining 90 percent of the students who arrive at Bunche as seniors trusting relationships in and out of the classroom. walk the stage at graduation. The restorative justice approach “is the difference The commitment to restorative justice means that students between discipline and punishment,” says Eric Butler, leave with more than a diploma, says Vice Principal Donnell the Restorative Justice Coordinator at Ralph Bunche. Mayberry. “It gives students back the responsibility of “If I focus all of my energy on punishment, I’m doing that self-managing and teaches them to be good communica- for myself, not for the student whose behavior I am tors and good listeners,” he adds. “Those are skills they need trying to change. In a culture of discipline, we’re treating for life.” incidents as learning opportunities—as a chance for students to grow. By the time students graduate from Ralph Bunche, they have created a new future for themselves. With the assis- “Restorative justice teaches a simpler, more humane way tance of a staff committed to their success, students have of being that is focused on communication and being in defied the odds and silenced the skeptics. Although they’ll relationship with each other,” explains Butler. leave school with many of the life challenges they carried Restorative justice is one example of the kind of alterna- with them when they arrived at Bunche, they’ve grown more tive approaches to harsh and often discriminatory “zero resilient, more willing to trust, and more able to dream. tolerance” discipline practices that Atlantic’s grantees worked to advance in the United States. The goal was to cut down on suspensions and expulsions and help vulnerable students stay in school and on track to high school graduation and college, rather than risk a lifetime of negative outcomes.

Pages 12 and 13: Graduation ceremony Students attend a circle session at a restorative justice class. for students at The NUI Galway Youth Photo: Associated Press, Damian Dovarganes Academy in the Republic of Ireland. Photo: Paul Seawright, Magnum Foundation

15 Children & Youth $193m Atlantic invested $193 million in prevention and early intervention programs for children in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. $950 Intervening early can cost as little as $950. Later interventions could cost as much as $352,000 over a lifetime.

“The [Children & Youth] Programme…served as a catalyst for change in encouraging [the Irish] government investment in evidence-based prevention and early intervention programmes…. Moreover, [we] found little evidence that these changes would have occurred without [Atlantic’s] investment and support.” Mathematica Policy Research

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Engaging Early to Change Children’s Lives

“The neighborhood around here, it’s very hard to raise your Atlantic’s grants in prevention and intervention successfully children in. This place is overrun with drugs and gangs,” leveraged government funding and support. For example, explained a mother who had just completed the Incredible in the Republic of Ireland, an €18 million ($24 million) Years Basic Parent Training, a group-training program for investment over five years to three organizations— parents of young children with persistent emotional and be- Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative, Preparing havioral difficulties. As this mother knows, it is challenging for Life and youngballymun—leveraged an equal commit- enough to raise a child with significant emotional problems, ment of support from government. and more so if the family lives in a community with few Moreover, several of the prevention programs that Atlantic resources and major social problems. These are exactly the has supported in Northern Ireland have been replicated families that Atlantic’s investments in prevention and early in other countries, including England, Macedonia, Zambia, intervention have helped in both the Republic of Ireland and and . Northern Ireland through an all-island strategy. Through its all-island approach, Atlantic invested €109.7 Preventing lifelong problems by intervening early with million ($145.3 million) in the Republic of Ireland and £29.9 programs based on evidence was at the heart of Atlantic’s million ($48 million) in Northern Ireland. By supporting investments. The goal was to enable more young people families at risk, evidenced-based programs, the sharing of to live happier and healthier lives, stay in school longer, knowledge and building an infrastructure for future work, attend university, find satisfying jobs and earn better the impact of Atlantic’s grantees will be felt for decades incomes. Another aim was to keep young people out of to come. prison and reduce suffering from preventable mental health problems. Intervening early saves money in the long term. If the causes of disruptive behaviors are not addressed early on, they can require later interventions that could cost substantially more over a lifetime. Archways, which promotes the Incredible Years training program, is one of several organizations that Atlantic supported. Archways works with local and national agencies to research, promote and implement evidence-based early intervention programs.

Preparing For Life helps families raise happy and healthy children who are ready for school, like five- year old Lucy. Photo: Audra Melton

17 18 Population Health Giving While… Improving. All people should live well and live long. In pursuit of that goal, Atlantic supported work to expand access to quality and affordable health care, especially for people for whom it has been out of reach. We also supported efforts to recruit and train medical personnel, made substantial investments for new hospitals and care centers, and advocated for evidence-based government policies leading to better health outcomes.

19 Population Health $269m Atlantic invested $269 million since 1999 to treat Viet Nam’s health care system. $735m This investment secured $735 million in matching funds from both national and provincial governments and other donors. 940 Atlantic’s funding helped build or upgrade more than 940 commune health centers across Viet Nam. 9m Roughly 9 million people are served by commune health centers in 8 provinces.

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Treating the Primary Health Care System

“The doctor saved my life,” declared Ca Lon, recalling how, As part of this historic effort to improve community prima- after delivering her first child, she experienced profuse ry care, Atlantic funded the construction and renovation bleeding that put her life at risk. Luckily, Ms. Lon was in a of more than 940 local commune health centers in eight district hospital in Khanh Hoa province, where Dr. Van Dong provinces that serve over 9 million people. It supported was on duty. Because he had been trained to handle this the training of health center and hospital staff in maternal type of complication through a program funded by Atlantic, and child health care, reproductive health care and other Dr. Dong diagnosed her cervical tear and performed surgery. skills in partnership with Save the Children, Marie Stopes She soon returned to her village with her newborn daughter. International and other nongovernmental organizations. Recalling the situation, the doctor said, “I was very To improve specialty care, research, education and medical confident in my skills, so I was able to save a mother’s life.” practice, Atlantic invested in major specialty medical centers, including the National Hospital of Pediatrics and Improving the skills of Viet Nam’s health workforce was the Da Nang Eye Hospital. Finally, to ensure a strong role central to Atlantic’s investment in health care in Viet Nam. for public health, Atlantic invested in the Ha Noi School of Its investments contributed to a significant decline in Public Health, the Viet Nam Public Health Association, and maternal mortality in some areas. public health campaigns to reduce deaths from tobacco Most significantly, Atlantic and its partners worked and injury. together to “treat the system” and improve health care for The campaign that resulted in the 2007 law requiring all Vietnamese people with few resources, including those motorbike drivers and passengers to wear helmets has living in poor, rural and ethnic minority communities. been used as a model for other issues internationally, like This work focused on improving the primary health care the World Wildlife Fund’s efforts to protect tigers in system—investing in facilities and workforce—and build- and Viet Nam. ing a culture of public health that promotes prevention. This strategy was designed to relieve the pressure on provincial and specialty hospitals.

Pages 18 and 19: Commune Health Centers, like this one in Ca Lon with her daughter. Photo: Save the Children Viet Nam’s Khanh Hoa Province, enable patients to receive preventive care examinations in medical facilities located close to where they live. Photo: Chien Chi Chang, Magnum Foundation

21 Population Health 2m 2 million individuals in with public coverage were receiving antiretroviral (ARV) medication treatment by 2013, up from zero in 2004. 80% 80% of all South African pregnant women in public health care receive ARVs, reducing transmission of HIV/AIDS from 8.5% to 3.5% in two years.

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Shaping History Through Support for Health and Human Rights

After losing two children toAIDS , Nokhwezi Hoboyi As a result, the number of people receiving antiretroviral stopped her treatment and landed in a South African treatment rose sharply. hospice with tuberculosis. “A nurse told me there was In addition, through litigation, TAC forced the government life after testing positive forHIV ,” Ms. Hoboyi said. Most to implement Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission, importantly, she met the nurse’s nephew, a member of which uses ARVs to reduce the number of HIV-positive the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) who took her to a babies born to HIV-positive mothers. As a result of meeting of the South African advocacy organization for pregnant women in public health care receiving ARVs, people with HIV/AIDS. transmission was reduced from 8.5 per cent to 3.5 percent At the meeting, Ms. Hoboyi learned how to manage in two years. her antiretroviral medications (ARVs) effectively. The Finally, TAC also battled stigma through powerful action antiretroviral helped restore her to good health and such as wearing its iconic HIV+ T-shirts, and educating later become a TAC district organizer, educating others people with HIV/AIDS to manage their own health by using about ARVs. ARVs earlier to prevent major illness. HIV/AIDS and TAC shaped her life, just as TAC has shaped Thanks to TAC’s victories, ARVs are keeping people in South the history of the epidemic in South Africa. Founded in Africa alive, enabling them to help shape its future. 1998 by activists with roots in the anti-apartheid move- ment, TAC’s efforts dramatically changed the government’s response to the epidemic.

TAC achieved its victories by both cooperating with and pressuring the government, filing lawsuits, organizing demonstrations and civil disobedience, attracting media attention, encouraging international pressure, and using scientific and economic analyses.

TAC’s activism caused the government to increase public spending on HIV/AIDS; pressured pharmaceutical compa- nies to lower the price of ARVs; and forced the government to make these drugs available to low-income people.

Nokhwezi Hoboyi. Photo: Samantha Reinders, TAC

23 Population Health 12% Almost half of South Africa’s population lives in rural areas, but only 12% of doctors practice there. 66% 66% of Umthombo Youth Development Foundation’s (UYDF) graduates continue to work in rural communities after meeting their obligation for their education. 84% The graduation rate of UYDF students (84%) is 2.4 times better than the national average of health science graduates (35%).

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Bringing Health Care Services to Rural South Africa

Sphamandla Mngomezulu is a clinical psychologist who Atlantic’s investment in South Africa’s health care work grew up in Ingwavuma in rural KwaZulu-Natal, an area in force included providing ZAR17.8 million ($2.2m) to UYDF. South Africa where the idea of a career in medicine or Those who graduate agree to return to their communities health care is a distant dream for most young people. to provide care where it is badly needed. In his case, the Umthombo Youth Development Foundation This small organization, based in KwaZulu-Natal, has made (UYDF), an organization that helps rural young people study an invaluable contribution by demonstrating what it takes health sciences and pursue careers in the caring profes- to successfully identify, train and retain young health care sions, helped make his dream of becoming a psychologist professionals committed to helping rural communities. come true. As of 2017, more than 300 health care professionals “It was quite something, this boy from a rural village coming graduated from the Umthombo program, covering 17 health back as a clinician,” Mngomezulu says. fields, and another 230 students were in various phases of UYDF identifies, recruits, pays university tuition and pro- their education. For the past five years, they have had a 94 vides emotional and professional guidance enabling them percent pass rate. According to the 2016 Umthombo annual to become health care workers their communities need. report, 66 percent of the graduates work in rural hospitals, and only 25 percent have moved to the private sector. UYDF-supported graduates of medical, nursing and other professional health programs are now improving health On so many levels, Umthombo is a success for rural South care in rural areas. In addition to Mngomezulu, another Africans. graduate brought optometry services to his home com- munity for the first time. And yet another, a biomedical technologist, set up a sophisticated lab in a local hospital to provide test results far more quickly than in the past.

A UYDF graduate treats a patient. Photo: UYDF

25 Population Health 23m The Latin American Medical School (ELAM) international students and graduates reach more than 23 million people in the Americas, Africa and . 31,000 31,000 ELAM graduates and students from more than 30 countries pledged to practice in underserved communities in their home countries.

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Training Socially Committed Physicians for the World’s Most Vulnerable Communities

After graduating from Cuba’s Latin American Medical ACT and Atlantic have dramatically improved ELAM’s School (ELAM) in 2005, Dr. Luther Castillo, a young Hondu- education. ACT support has helped modernize computer ran of Garifuna heritage, and his medical school classmates laboratories, enhance Internet connectivity at the central began fulfilling their promise to provide health care to campus, introduce clinical skills laboratories, upgrade people in communities with limited care. Atlantic grantees sciences laboratories and refurbish libraries at provincial helped them build the first hospital in the remote village universities where students take their clinical training. of Ciriboya, providing the Garifuna people with two firsts: Atlantic grants have provided graduates with “backpack accessible comprehensive health services and electricity. libraries” of textbooks and medical instruments to use in remote settings. Dr. Castillo explains: “When I go on foot to Since its first class of 2005,ELAM has graduated tens of visit my patients... the backpack is with me. It’s like having thousands of physicians from low-income communities in my professors at my side.” Africa, Asia and the Americas, including the United States. Programs provided by MEDICC, another Atlantic grantee, The world’s largest medical school, ELAM trains future have led to higher success rates on medical boards and doctors in primary, preventive care with the best of public residency placements for ELAM students and graduates. health medicine. Students from all over the world attend on Moreover, the grantee links them with mentors and socially full scholarship. In return for their education, they pledge committed U.S. health institutions, streamlining their path to practice in their underserved communities. To prepare to work in underserved communities. these students to address health disparities, they learn Cuba’s approach to health care, which is highly effective in ACT and Atlantic have invested $15 million in ELAM since communities with few resources. 2002, enriching the medical education of over 31,000 low-income and socially committed international students. “When a hurricane hit my country in 1998, Cuban doctors They touch the lives of more than 23 million people in the were right there with us, among the poorest of the poor,” Americas, Africa and Asia. said Dr. Castillo. “They taught us never to abandon anybody, and they’re the reason I’m a doctor today...ELAM has given all of us the chance to pass on that solidarity.”

After the 2010 earthquake, Dr. Castillo led 600ELAM graduates from 24 countries, including Haiti, who served as first responders. To identify volunteers, ELAM used its Observatory, an online communications network funded by the Atlantic Charitable Trust (ACT), to stay linked to and evaluate its graduates’ impact in their home countries.

Dr. Castillo examines a young patient. Photo: C. Gorry, MEDICC

27 28 Reconciliation & Human Rights Giving While… Advancing. Dignity. Respect. Fairness. Civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights. These rights should be fully and equally available to all. Atlantic supported organizations, movements and people to advance human rights, challenge and change discriminatory practices and narratives, and bring together communities separated by war and prejudice.

29 Reconciliation & Human Rights $60m Atlantic’s investments in efforts to abolish the death penalty totaled $60 million over 11 years. 2005 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the juvenile death penalty unconstitutional in 2005. 10 states Grantees have been instrumental in the abolition of the death penalty in seven states, the issuance of moratoria in two states and the prevention of another state from reinstating capital punishment.

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Righting Wrongs: Ending the Death Penalty

Ray Krone’s advocacy to eliminate the death penalty is Grantees were instrumental in abolishing the death penalty deeply personal. After serving more than 10 years in Arizona in seven states—Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Mary- prisons, including 32 months on death row, he was the 100th land, New , and New York; establishing person nationwide to be exonerated for a crime punishable Oregon’s and Pennsylvania’s moratoria; and preventing by death. In 2002, DNA tests established another man had Wisconsin from reinstating it. committed the murder for which Mr. Krone had been found Other signs that the tide is turning include recent polls guilty. showing how much the death penalty has fallen out of favor. He recalls hearing his mother tell a reporter that she set a One 2016 poll, for instance, found that a majority of Amer- place at the table for him every Thanksgiving and Christ- icans favored life imprisonment without parole instead of mas. Mr. Krone said: “To hear that, to think of what my mom the death penalty when offered those two choices. went through… helped me realize how I need to do this The death penalty should be abolished because it violates for her, for my sisters, for all the people who have sat in a basic human rights. More so, it relies on a system fraught courtroom and been told that they are guilty when they are with error, discriminates based on race and socio-economic not.... I was a Boy Scout, a postman... I was in the Air Force. If status, takes up disproportionate time and resources in they could do it to me, they could do it to anyone.” the courts, and impedes meaningful reform of the criminal Mr. Krone served as the director of communications and justice system. training for Witness to Innocence (WTI), an organization advocating the end of the death penalty composed of exonerated death row survivors and their loved ones. WTI received support from Atlantic, as part of its efforts to abolish the death penalty.

Ray Krone. Photo: Witness to Innocence Pages 28 and 29: Christina Swarns (center), the lead counsel for Duane Buck, is embraced by Buck’s stepsister Phyllis Taylor outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on October 5, 2016 in Washington, D.C. Buck had been on death row since 1996 for a double murder. The court ruled that his sentence was racially biased and Buck was later resentenced to life in prison. Photo: MANDEL NGAN / AFP / Getty Images

31 Reconciliation & Human Rights £43m Shared resources and reduced duplicative services can result in an annual savings of £43 million. £21.7m Atlantic’s Atlantic’s £21.7 million investment in shared education leveraged £81 million from government and £15.8 million from the International Fund for Ireland. 20,000 pupils Over 20,000 pupils in Northern Ireland each year participate in shared education classes.

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Breaking Down Barriers Through Education

‘’That’s a nice idea, but are you insane?” That was what Tony “In divided societies,” Prof. Gallagher added, “people… Gallagher, professor of education and pro-vice chancellor assume the worst which solidifies boundaries. Because of Queen’s University Belfast, commonly heard when he people were willing to… take a risk and reach out across suggested in 2006 that predominantly Roman Catholic and divides, remarkable things happened.” Protestant schools in North Belfast share resources and Atlantic invested £30.2 million in integrated and shared exchange students. education. The £21.7 million investment in shared education This response could be expected because Northern Ireland alone leveraged £81 million from government and £15.8 remains a deeply divided society with segregated schools. million from the International Fund for Ireland. To address this challenge, Atlantic began investing in Some of Atlantic’s grantees have worked with other integrated education in 1997 with the goal of increasing the funders such as UNICEF, the Tony Blair Foundation and number of students in integrated schools. USAID, to transfer the learnings on shared education to Along with support for integrated education, Atlantic other divided societies, including Macedonia and Israel/ focused on shared education, which promotes collaboration . among existing segregated schools to share teachers and Prof. Gallagher’s once “insane” idea has since attracted curricula. support from many sectors and is reaping benefits for As part of this work, Queen’s University established a many students. shared education program, with 12 partnerships, 65 schools and 4,500 pupils. One partnership involved three all-girls schools in North Belfast, a low-income community that suffered a disproportionate number of deaths during The Troubles. Prof. Gallagher said, “If we could do it in North Belfast, we could do it anywhere.” With some persuasion, students from two Catholic schools began taking classes at the Protestant institution. “They were wearing their own uniforms. Everyone knew. But there were no issues at all,” he said.

Protestant and Catholic students share a citizenship class in Derry/Londonderry. Photo: Lorcan Doherty

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Progress of LGBT Rights In Ireland Between 2010 and 2015, Ireland made major advances expanding rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. 2010 Ireland signs the Civil Partnership Bill into law. 2015 Voters overwhelmingly approve a marriage equality ballot measure. 2015 Ireland passes Gender Recognition Act.

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Laying the Path for Marriage Equality

When well-known Irish radio journalist Michael Murphy While the May 2015 vote approving same-sex marriage in entered into a civil partnership with his partner of 26 years Ireland overshadowed the Civil Partnership Act, for indi- in Dublin in June 2011, he could not have known that within viduals like Michael Murphy, enactment of the earlier law four years the Republic of Ireland would become the first represented the beginning of a “new Ireland, a better and country to legalize marriage for same-sex couples by healthier Ireland.” popular vote. That sentiment was echoed several years later by Brian But it was the passage of the Civil Partnership Act in 2010— Sheehan, executive director of the Gay and Lesbian which Atlantic had supported by investing in several lesbian, Equality Network, a former Atlantic grantee, and one of the gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights groups—that organizers of the successful same-sex marriage campaign. laid the groundwork for the May 2015 Irish vote approving Commenting on what the marriage equality victory meant marriage equality by an overwhelming margin. to Ireland, he said that in setting out to “change the consti- tution…we changed a country.” Although Atlantic did not contribute any funds to the cam- paign to change the Constitution to allow marriage “by two On a brilliant day in September 2017, Murphy and his persons without distinction as to their sex,” the successful partner Terry O’Sullivan tied the knot in front of 70 of their outcome represented the natural evolution of work the closest friends and family. Murphy told the Sunday Inde- foundation had been supporting in Ireland between 2004 pendent, “We’ve been devoted to each other for the past 33 and 2013, and backed by $11.5 million in grants to give voice years, so when the people of Ireland generously voted for to a historically silenced minority. marriage equality, we decided to get married—to honour the vote certainly, but primarily because we love each other.” In Ireland, as well as several other geographies, achieving greater rights for LGBT people was one of the goals of Atlantic’s Reconciliation & Human Rights Program. Here the focus of Atlantic’s grantmaking was to: deliver legislative change on same-sex partnerships and transgender identity; encourage changes in mainstream services to incorporate the needs of LGBT people; ensure that the organizations that served those communities could be sustained over time; and increase cohesiveness within and across LGBT communities in Ireland.

Michael Murphy (left) and Terry O’Sullivan, pictured celebrating their civil partnership in June 2011. Six years later, they married. Photo: Irish Independent

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“Let’s face it, we were slightly mad. No, not slightly, very. We believed we could transform the race-obsessed authoritarian country that had given the word ‘apartheid’ to the world into an exemplary non-racial democracy. We thought that our Constitution—founded on principles of human dignity, equality and freedom —could actually be made to work.” Albie Sachs, justice of South Africa’s Constitutional Court 1994–2009

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Defending Democracy and Delivering on the Constitution

Throngs of students protested outside the South African Advocacy efforts also paid off. The South African National Parliament in Cape Town on a sunny afternoon in February Editors Forum and the Right2Know Campaign pressured 2011. Wearing green T-shirts and carrying hand-scrawled the government to abandon plans for a Media Appeals signs, they set up an outdoor classroom complete with Tribunal, which would have compromised the independence desks and chairs. The students, members of Atlantic of the press; and the Social Justice Coalition pushed the grantee Equal Education, were protesting against the Cape Town City Council to provide one toilet to every five deplorable conditions of nearly 400 schools in the Eastern households in informal settlements around the city, an Cape constructed from mud and many more that lacked improvement over the 1:12 ratio. It also agreed to provide running water and toilets. The students demanded govern- janitors to clean and repair toilets. ment action to ensure every child’s right to education by And the students’ protest brought results. The Consti- guaranteeing a safe, clean learning environment. tutional Court ordered the Eastern Cape government to For these activists, the squalor of the mud schools ex- replace mud schools with proper structures, in response emplifies the glaring gap between the reality of daily life to the Legal Resources Centre’s litigation, with support and the rights promised by their constitution, one of the from Equal Education. The government subsequently made world’s most progressive. Its preamble envisions “a society ZAR8.2 billion ($1 billion) available for school improvements. based on democratic values, social justice and fundamental Building on this victory, Equal Education continues to seek human rights.” Yet the poorest and most disadvantaged to ensure that all South Africans have access to a quality South Africans are too often denied their rights. education. Because rights and democracy were at the core of Atlan- tic’s health and human rights objectives, the foundation supported grantees working to uphold the constitution and defend democracy since its work began in the country in the early 1990s. Atlantic support helped grantees make great strides in their efforts to deliver on democracy. For instance, the Consti- tutional Court ruled in favor of gay marriage, thanks to litigation by the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project. The court also reversed the Communal Land Rights Act, securing access to land ownership and improving the livelihoods of 16 million women, thanks to the Legal Resources Centre.

Equal Education student members march for better school infrastructure. Photo: Equal Education

37 38 Bermuda Giving While… Strengthening. Though often perceived as an affluent country, many who live in Bermuda struggle to make ends meet. Through its grantmaking, Atlantic supported groups working to address disparities in health and education, and to promote racial equity and access to justice.

39 Bermuda $28m Atlantic’s investment in Bermuda has been $28 million since 1992.

“Bermuda was the opening chapter in Atlantic’s history. Now, the Bermuda Community Foundation will crystallize our legacy by amplifying the role of philanthropy right here where our journey started.” Atlantic CEO Christopher G. Oechsli

Pages 38 and 39: The Open Airways program in Bermuda helps children with asthma learn to control it so they can lead normal lives. Photo: Meredith Andrews

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Strengthening Organizations to Lead and Collaborate for Social Change

Atlantic’s support in Bermuda has strengthened the of philanthropy on the island that has driven significant capacity of the island’s nonprofit sector by promoting advancements in racial justice, non-discrimination and planned giving and strategic philanthropy, encouraging democracy,” Dr. Virgil said. “We carry forward that legacy traditional nonprofits to become social advocates, devel- and ensure the sustainability of Bermuda’s philanthropic oping nascent organizations into leaders and facilitating community and the positive social change that it has collaboration among organizations to advance shared propelled.” agendas. With Atlantic’s support, three Bermudian Getting at the Root of the Problem: organizations, among others, have become leaders The Family Centre in creating social change. “People standing by a river see several babies floating Here for Good: Bermuda Community by. They start jumping in to save them. One person starts Foundation running upstream. ‘Where are you going?’ the people ask. The Bermuda Community Foundation (BCF) launched in ‘I’m going to see who is throwing the babies in the water!’ ” 2014 with a mandate to create an enduring source of funds —Martha Dismont, Executive Director to make the island more equitable and to improve the • Began working with at-risk young people in 1996 quality of life for all residents. • Evolved from a traditional tutoring program to an innova- “We looked at the island’s social issues, nonprofits’ tive provider of preventive and early intervention services approaches to tackling them and philanthropy’s support for helping address enduring social problems,” said Myra • Helped more than 2,000 families overcome social and Virgil who channeled her experience as a program executive emotional challenges to create better futures for their at Atlantic into current her role as BCF’s managing director. children

Now in its fifth year, BCF connects donors and nonprofits, • Adapts its services to meet existing needs and takes the and works with both to create long-term funding solutions lead in helping individuals and communities identify what aimed at addressing priority issues in the community. As they need part of its 2016/2017 programming, BCF: Giving Voice to Seniors: Age Concern • Provided support to 99 not-for-profit programs, facilitat- “We could stay in business forever managing crises, but is ed 263 grants, and made donations totaling $1.3 million that really helping the people of Bermuda? We’ve got to get • Conducted its first Vital Signs® survey to take the pulse of to the root.” —Claudette Fleming, Executive Director the community, identify needs and concerns, and provide • Began as a volunteer organization in 1978; became a data to donors to direct their giving most effectively nonprofit in 2000 and is now a leading advocate for older • Developed a customized quality of life report and created adults and aging issues an online resource for development and protection of • Disseminates information, operates a call center for older young children adults and works with local businesses to link older adults The island’s first community foundation, BCF was seeded with products and services that fit their needs, ranging with a $6 million grant from Atlantic—of which $2 million from financial planning to legal counsel, health services was used for core operations—along with $2 million in and home improvement funding from RenaissanceRe, the Buchanan Charitable • Conducted demographic research in partnership with the Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, XL Foundation and other government to ensure that its services match the needs of private donors. “Atlantic has made important contributions older adults to Bermuda, not the least of which is creating a culture 41 42 Founding Chairman Giving While… Building. Atlantic’s Founding Chairman Chuck Feeney says, “Good buildings for good minds can make a difference in the lives of a lot of people.” Atlantic’s $350 million investment in the new campus in reflects his belief in the continuous payoff that comes from making big bets in education.

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Advancing Science, Transforming Nations and Saving Lives

Over his many years of giving, Chuck Feeney, Atlantic’s “Chuck Feeney started Founding Chairman, never lost sight of the big picture of what it takes to invest successfully in biomedical a revolution in Queensland.” research—funding state-of-the-art labs and facilities, Honourable Peter Beattie, premier of Queensland developing research capacity, forging collaboration across (1998–2007) universities and research institutes, and supporting efforts to bring laboratory discoveries to clinical trial with the goal of getting new treatments to people in need. These are a few examples of the impact Mr. Feeney’s support has had on several major institutions. Transforming Queensland into a Knowledge Economy

AUSTRALIA

• The biotech industry in Queensland was virtually nonexistent in 1998.

• Atlantic’s partnership with government led to the construction and expansion of 12 university and medical research institutions throughout the state.

• Atlantic’s gift ofAU $102.5 million ($60.6 million) for three buildings in Queensland—the Translational Research Research laboratory at . Photo: Audra Melton Institute (TRI), Queensland University of Technology and Queensland Institute of Medical Research—was the single largest philanthropic gift to higher education and medical research in the history of . TRI is the largest facility for translational research—translating discoveries into practical application—in the Southern Hemisphere.

• This record gift leveragedAU $170 million ($109 million) in matching funding from the Australian government and resulted in three new buildings valued in excess of AU$725 million ($467 million).

• Atlantic invested nearly AU$500 million ($322 million) to develop 25 state-of-the-art facilities and activities for biomedical research in the states of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania in Australia.

Photo pages 42 and 43: Cornell Tech Campus in New York City. Photo:Iwan Baan/Cornell Tech

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Developing One of the Major Bioscience “[UCSF] Mission Bay campus in Research Centers in the World its present form might not have UNITED STATES existed without Chuck’s foresight. • UCSF’s Mission Bay campus is one of the largest biomedi- cal education and research campuses in the United States. Each of his three gifts was instrumental in both obtaining • Atlantic’s $125 million grant in 2009—one of the largest in the university’s history—to build a children’s, women’s and the University Regent’s approval cancer hospital at the UCSF Mission Bay campus included for that particular project and in a 100 percent match requirement, incentivizing other philanthropists to invest. encouraging other philanthropists

• Atlantic has provided a total of $290 million to UCSF, to step forward.” including support for the Helen Diller Family Cancer Regis Kelly, former vice chancellor of University of Research Building and the Cardiovascular Research California, San Francisco and now director of the California Institute, enhancing UCSF’s worldwide reputation in Institute for Quantitative Biosciences cardiovascular and cancer work.

• UCSF is consistently the top public university—and in the top three of all universities—in the United States to receive National Institutes of Health funding.

The goal of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building: Always Be Curing Cancer. Photo: Alessandra Sanguinetti, Magnum Foundation

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Supporting Collaboration “I really believe that bringing IRELAND, VIET NAM, AUSTRALIA AND THE UNITED STATES people from a mix of professions • Established capacity for research in virology through together to work on complex support for The Ireland- Blood Borne Virus problems has the potential to Initiative ($3.2 million)—a partnership between the National Virus Reference Laboratory at University College change the world.” Dublin, Ireland, and the National Institute of Hygiene and Phaedra Bell, an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health Epidemiology in Ha Noi, Viet Nam. In April 2012, the World Health Organization accredited the Ha Noi laboratory.

• Provided scholarships for 205 Vietnamese students to pursue graduate-level work at the University of Queensland ($12.3 million).

• Established the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) based at University of California, San Francisco and ($177 million). GBHI seeks social and public health solutions to reduce the scale and impact of dementia around the world. To achieve this, it is training and supporting a new generation of leaders, The Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health.

The Translational Research Institute in Brisbane, Australia is the largest medical institute in that part of the world. Photo: Russell Shakespeare, Magnum Foundation

47 Founding Chairman €1.1b Atlantic’s €178 million investment in PRTLI has leveraged more than €1.1 billion in investments from the Irish government.

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Taking Research and a Country to New Levels of Excellence

“Look, frankly you’ve got to invest in research,” were Found- Even more astonishing is that Atlantic, which had already ing Chairman Chuck Feeney’s words in 1998 to Ireland’s then made major contributions to renew Ireland’s university Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, when Mr. Feeney urged him to infrastructure, mounted such large-scale initiatives in have the government stop dragging its feet on a revolu- absolute secrecy, a strict requirement during the founda- tionary proposal to co-fund a major initiative, called the tion’s period of anonymity. Only a handful of people knew Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI). the source of the “matching private funds.”

This initiative, a series of bold investments in the country’s PRTLI provided for approximately 100,000 square seven universities and the Royal College of Surgeons, cre- meters (1.1 million square feet) of new research facilities, ated a highly competitive strategic research environment 46 research institutes or programs, 1,000 research of international quality. PRTLI also gave a significant boost positions and 1,600 new postgraduate positions. Atlantic to the economy. Mr. Feeney was the driver because of his invested in the first three funding cycles a total of €178 conviction that Ireland’s future prosperity depended on its million ($262 million), equivalent to 16 per cent of the ability to create new knowledge. government’s contribution of more than €1.1 billion ($1.3 billion) through five cycles. “It would be difficult to exaggerate how bleak the Irish research landscape looked in 1996,” said Dr. Hugh R. Brady, The foundation also invested £46.9 ($71.8 million) for a president of the University College of Dublin. “It has been similarly successful program, called SPUR or Support totally transformed, thanks in large part to the catalytic Program for University Research, in Northern Ireland. initiative shown by Atlantic.” For these reasons, “when the history of Irish higher education is written, the name of Chuck Feeney will Tom Mitchell, a former Atlantic Board member and former hold an honorable place,” according to Dr. Brady. provost of Trinity College Dublin, said: “PRTLI is Chuck’s biggest legacy. It is a model of how a foundation can combine with government and use its leverage to change policy. This is social change in a very significant way.”

Postgraduate research student Eric Farrell and Minister of Education and Science Mary Hanafin at Trinity College Dublin’s Centre for Bioengineering. Photo: Trinity College Dublin

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Enriching a University to Strengthen Learning and Research

The $1 billion investment in made by SCHOOL OF HOTEL ADMINISTRATION ($16.5 MILLION) Atlantic and its Founding Chairman has enriched the Atlantic’s support created an enhanced learning environ- experience of students and faculty on campus; strength- ment for new generations of hospitality professionals. ened its academics, research and athletics; and enabled the The school: university to expand its role in the applied sciences, which will invigorate the economy of New York. These are a few • Built the Statler Hotel and J. Willard Marriott Executive highlights of Atlantic’s giving to the Ithaca, New York-based Education Center, among the finest hospitality teaching university. facilities in the world. Now an AAA, four-diamond–rated property, its staff welcome visitors from around the globe Supporting Students • Constructed four modern amphitheatre lecture halls Ensuring that the university’s doors are open to all deserv- and ensured that they had leading-edge instructional ing students, regardless of their financial means, motivated technology Atlantic to provide important scholarship support. • Created the Center for Hospitality Research, a pre-emi- THE CORNELL TRADITION PROGRAM ($40 MILLION) nent source of new knowledge related to the industry. Chuck Feeney’s first and very last grants through Atlantic Supporting Faculty created and secured a program close to his heart: The Cornell Tradition. Atlantic’s support enabled Cornell to fund world-class labs to recruit new science faculty. • Up to 500 of Cornell’s 14,000 undergraduates are recog- nized each year as Cornell Tradition fellows based on their commitment to combining paid work and service to others “The university is the most significant with their academic studies. Fellows receive up to $4,000 creation of the second millennium... per year in need-based student loan replacement grants, It informs public understanding, culti- $3,500 over the course of their baccalaureate study to vates public taste and contributes to support internships or service-related activities and the nation’s well-being as it nurtures membership in a unique community of service-oriented scholars. and trains each generation of authors, business leaders, engineers, farmers, • Funding from Atlantic, which has totaled more than $40 lawyers, physicians, poets, scientists, million, together with gifts from other alumni, parents and friends, have made it possible for The Cornell Tradition to social workers, and teachers—as well provide more than $41 million in loan relief to over 6,000 as a steady succession of advocates, fellows since its founding nearly 35 years ago. Collectively, dreamers, doers, dropouts, parents, fellows have performed 2.8 million hours of work and politicians, preachers, prophets, social service. reformers, visionaries, and volunteers— SCHOLARSHIP CHALLENGE CAMPAIGN ($50 MILLION) who leaven, nudge, and shape the • Generated $150 million in other donors’ support for under- course of public life.” graduate scholarships. From The Creation of the Future, by Frank H.T. Rhodes, president of Cornell University, from 1977 to 1995, and chairman of the Atlantic Board from 2000 to 2008.

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ACADEMIC INITIATIVES ($55.8 MILLION) source of calories for half the world’s population and the single largest source of employment for rural people. • Enabled the president and provost to hire 70 new faculty members in areas of strategic importance. Preparing Tomorrow’s Tech Leaders and Entrepreneurs CAMPAIGN TO CREATE THE FUTURE CHALLENGES ($50 MILLION) The Cornell Tech ($350 million) applied sciences and engi- neering graduate campus, which opened in 2017, is designed • Created three challenges to encourage alumni, parents to build New York’s tech capacity, spur innovation and and friends to support endowments entrepreneurship, and help position the city as a global tech • Generated matching gifts from others to endow a total center. Cornell anticipates the campus will: of 77 new faculty positions, with 436 donor gifts adding • Create an estimated 20,000 short-term construction jobs, $31.8 million to the endowment. 38,000 permanent jobs and 600 spin-off companies Transforming Life on Campus • Generate more than $23 billion in overall economic activity With $160.8 million in support from Atlantic, Cornell enact- over the next three decades, as well as $1.4 billion in ed a sweeping initiative to incorporate academics into res- additional tax revenue. idential life on two campuses: one for first-year students In addition to these highlights, Atlantic has also given and another for sophomores, juniors and seniors. Cornell another $200 million for various academic and NORTH CAMPUS campus projects over the years.

By housing all freshman students at the renovated North Campus, the university enriched the first-year experience with mentoring, academic tutoring and writing seminars in a residential environment.

WEST CAMPUS

By incorporating academics into residential life, Cornell created an entirely new way of living and learning for soph- omores, juniors and seniors on the rebuilt West Campus. Over eight years, nearly 10,000 students and hundreds of faculty have interacted in a residential setting dedicated to learning. Developing Sustainable Food Systems

The Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and

Development ($15 million) improves the lives of the poor Students attend 2012 commencement ceremony. Photo: Cornell University around the world by developing sustainable food systems, including:

• System of Rice Intensification, which increases the yield of irrigated rice by 50–100 percent. Rice is the major

51 Founding Chairman ZAR6.9b The Department of Education ended a 15-year moratorium on spending for higher education infrastructure when it matched Atlantic’s grant to the University of the Western Cape, and has since given or made commitments of ZAR6.9 billion to all universities.

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Providing for the University of Western Cape to Reach New Levels of Excellence

In 2005, Founding Chairman Chuck Feeney decided that biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics, and physics. Atlantic would invest in a state-of-the-art Life Sciences Breaking another barrier, UWC produces the largest number building for the University of the Western Cape (UWC) after of black and female science graduates, a noteworthy learning that researchers at this historically disadvantaged achievement for a school founded as a colored university school were producing internationally recognized work during apartheid that continues to educate mostly despite outdated facilities and technology. low-income, black students.

At the time, UWC researchers were conducting Africa’s Atlantic provided ZAR190 million ($26 million) for the two leading groundwater data collection and analysis and buildings, significantly boostingUWC ’s growing research developing the first side effects–free male contraceptive reputation. Its NRF-rated researchers have grown from pill. Furthermore, the United Nations selected UWC’s South 66 to 90 in three years, and UWC’s number of research African Herbal Sciences and Medicines Institute (SAHSMI) chairs ranks it fourth nationally. In keeping with Atlantic’s to establish a global centre for the study of traditional hallmark of leveraging government support, its UWC medicines. investment was the catalyst for far-reaching benefits at this and other universities. By matching the life sciences By 2010, the new building became the home of SAHSMI and grant, the national Department of Education (DOE) ended the National Bioinformatics Institute, the Water Research a 15-year moratorium on spending for higher education Programme, Groundwater Centre, Male Fertility Research infrastructure. unit and six academic departments. UWC has demonstrated that a historically disadvantaged “The Atlantic Philanthropies’ support for life sciences came school can compete with the best, confirming Mr. Feeney’s at a critical stage of UWC’s history,” explained UWC retired belief that “good buildings for good minds can make a big Rector and former Vice Chancellor Brian O’Connell. “We difference in the lives of a lot of people.” were on the cusp of being recognized as a serious research university, when Atlantic gave us its confident support and undoubtedly the most advanced science building on the continent.”

To further bolster UWC, Atlantic funded a state-of-the-art building for the School of Public Health (SOPH), which opened in 2009. SOPH is increasingly seen as a center of excellence by the international public health community, and the World Health Organization designated it a “Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Human Resources for Health.” SOPH houses the new Centre for Research in HIV and AIDS, which is strengthening collaboration among UWC and other African institutions. Today, the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) ranks UWC first in research impact in biology and School of Public Health. Photo: UWC

53 54 Atlantic Fellows Giving While… Leading. The Atlantic Philanthropies established the Atlantic Fellows in 2015 to culminate the foundation’s long history of investing in people and in their vision and ability to realize a better world. Over 20 years, the network of Atlantic Fellows will grow to thousands.

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$660m 7 Programs 1 Global Community 267 There are 267 fellows around the world as of July 2018. The network of Atlantic Fellows will grow to thousands over 20 years.

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Turning the Tide of Dementia

The April sunlight danced across the floor of the conference at the University of California, San Francisco (USCF). They hall in concert with the bobbing of the river below. A burst take classes and seminars together via Zoom; meet individ- of applause signaled the end of another session for the ually with mentors as they work on their own projects, all Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health at the Global with the aim of alleviating the impact of dementia. Brain Health Institute (GBHI) who had gathered in Buenos Atlantic Fellow Fionnuala Sweeney’s fellowship project, Aires for their third annual conference. with the help of the Alzheimer’s Association, is to promote They’d come from across the globe—Turkey, , , brain health and the fact that 30 percent of dementias are , Colombia, , Ireland, , , , currently known to be potentially preventable through diet Mexico, the , the UK, the U.S. and , to and exercise. name only some. Their objective? To reinforce the bonds In her home country, Ireland, she is overseeing a six-part made at previous gatherings in Barcelona and Cuba and to series on dementia for national radio called “Let’s Talk share their work, experiences and optimism as they forge Dementia.” In time, she hopes to expand the audience new paths in the global fight for brain health equality. internationally in order to reach as many people as possible, Dementia is a tsunami coming towards us. Roughly particularly those in regions where dementia remains stig- 50 million people live with it today, placing an inordinate matized. The Fellows at GBHI are doctors, speech therapists, amount of pressure on healthcare systems, families and clinicians and researchers; others come from the world of carers, not to mention the individuals themselves. By 2050, art, music and in her case, journalism. Their backgrounds that number is expected to increase to 142 million people, may differ but they are united in trying to counter dementia. the majority of whom will be undereducated and below the poverty line.

Established in 2015 with funding from Atlantic, GBHI aims to train as many as 600 people from all walks of life over a 15-year period to help turn the tide of dementia through policy, research, treatment and care giving. Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health study at Trinity College Dublin or

Photo: Global Brain Health Institute Pages 54 and 55: Atlantic Fellows from across the globe gathered at The Atlantic Institute in Oxford, , to connect and learn from one another. At the end of the meeting, they tied ribbons to a tree behind Rhodes House to commemorate the experience. Photo: Lee Atherton

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Building Just and Equitable Communities

Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garza launched the Once someone is named a fellow, they remain one for life. Black Futures Lab (BFL) as a way to bring the needs of black The fellows are not interested in easy fixes; the goal of the communities—and policies that will support them—to program, rather, is to give people the tools and resources the political forefront. Her first initiative under BFL is the to get to the bottom of systemic issues, like health and currently underway Black Census, a wide-ranging survey racial inequities, and to build out systemic, transformative designed to quantify the needs of black communities solutions. The fact that those solutions may not materialize across the country. The initiative arose from an understand- until long after Atlantic closes its doors testifies to the fact ing, cemented via conversations with other Atlantic Fellows that the organization’s goal was never self-satisfaction: It’s for Racial Equity, that part of what keeps racial equity about using its resources to create necessary change for out of reach is a lack of political understanding or will to the future. counter systemic racism. She’s doing this work as part of the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity program, which introduced its first cohort of fellows in November 2017. It includes 29 activists, scholars, lawyers, artists, and other leaders from both the U.S. and South Africa—two countries dealing with extreme forms of racial inequity. The Racial Equity fellowship program launched in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation in South Africa, and the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive society at University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University in the United States. As part of the fellowship, the cohort travels between the two countries, meeting with various leaders and hosting collaborative workshops to develop solutions.

Alicia Garza. Photo: Kristin Little

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A Global Community for a Better World • Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity based at The Universi- ty of Melbourne The seven interconnected Atlantic Fellows programs bring together experienced individuals from diverse professions, • Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity based at Columbia backgrounds and areas of expertise to learn from one University in New York City and the Nelson Mandela another, find solutions to pressing problems, and achieve Foundation in Johannesburg demonstrable impact. • Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity based at the George • Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health based at The Washington University Health Workforce Institute Global Brain Health Institute at Trinity College Dublin and The Atlantic Institute, based at Rhodes Trust at Oxford the University of California, San Francisco University in England, amplifies the influence and impact • Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in Southeast Asia of the Atlantic Fellows network with resources and based at The Equity Initiative at the China Medical Board opportunities to connect, learn and work together. in Bangkok

• Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity based at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science

• Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in South Africa based at TEKANO

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Giving Pledge Giving While… Living. “I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living—to personally devote oneself to meaningful efforts to improve the human condition. More importantly, today’s needs are so great and varied that intelligent philanthropic support and positive interventions can have greater value and impact today than if they are delayed when the needs are greater.” —Chuck Feeney

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Chuck Feeney’s Letter to Upon Joining the Giving Pledge

February 3, 2011 Dear Bill,

I greatly appreciated the recent opportunity you provided On now approaching my 80th birthday, I am content with to update me on the successes and challenges of the Giving my action, in 1982, to establish The Atlantic Foundation. Pledge, and to allow me to share my own related thoughts I am convinced this was a sensible means for directing to and experience. As you know, shortly after the announce- good purpose a large and increasing wealth that exceed- ment of the Giving Pledge in June 2010, which followed our ed my and my family’s lifetime needs and which I believe meeting at the first exploratory gathering in May 2009, I would have become problematic. Reflection on the many made an initial decision to withhold participation. Because worthwhile undertakings that these funds have since made I had already transferred virtually all of my personal and possible always reaffirms for me the prudence of this family assets to The Atlantic Foundation (the precursor decision. The process of—and, most importantly, the to The Atlantic Philanthropies) over 25 years ago, I did not results from—granting this wealth to good causes has think it appropriate to be among the early signatories of been a rich source of joy and satisfaction for me and for my this undertaking. family. Beginning with little more than a few nascent ideas, the experience of having made a few sizable donations, and Nevertheless, I have been carefully following the Giving a passionate interest in assisting those whose life circum- Pledge initiative and am heartened by the great response. stances or experience resulted in deficit or vulnerability, I Though I cannot pledge that which I already have given— have been fortunate that many others with a wide range of The Atlantic Philanthropies have made over $5.5 billion backgrounds and expertise have been willing to participate in grants since inception—I want now to publicly add my in and enhance this grant making endeavor over many years. enthusiastic support for this effort and celebrate this great accomplishment. Our efforts were organized somewhat loosely at first, consistent with my preferred working style and our needs, I also want now to add my own personal challenge and but over time as the volume of activities expanded, the encouragement for Giving Pledge donors to fully engage in work was arranged in a more formal organization. Over sustained philanthropic efforts during their lifetimes. I can- the course of this journey, and alongside others who con- not think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate tributed enormously, I learned and came to appreciate the use of wealth than to give while one is living—to personally challenges and complexities of philanthropy. And, together, devote oneself to meaningful efforts to improve the human much good work has been done. I think often of, and I am condition. More importantly, today’s needs are so great and truly grateful to, the many people who have contributed varied that intelligent philanthropic support and positive in so many ways to the work of The Atlantic Philanthropies interventions can have greater value and impact today than over the years. if they are delayed when the needs are greater. I urge those who are taking up the Giving Pledge example to invest sub- While my approach to philanthropy has surely developed stantially in philanthropic causes soon and not postpone and matured through experience, fundamental guides for their giving or personal engagement. me have always been the same methods of working and values that served me well in my business career.

Photo on pages 60 and 61: Pascal Perich

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Key among these, I believe, is the dynamism, vigilance the nature, size and cost of support staff and operations. and informed risk taking inherent in entrepreneurial work, Critically, one must also navigate the complexities inherent together with priority on good relationships and personal in establishing an appropriate governance and long-term engagement. In business, as in philanthropy, I have always leadership structure to carry out one’s philanthropic inten- sought an independent, strategic edge where potential is tions. This incorporates many aspects, such as whether or often greatest, as well as opportunities that I can under- not to institutionalize a set of guiding principles; the size, stand and to which perhaps I can contribute personally. role and scope of authority of an outside board, if any; the involvement of children and other family members; and the A lot is expected from us in philanthropic endeavors—and participation and function of outside advisors—and the not all good initiatives will be met with universal positive approach decided upon must stand the test of time. acclaim—but this challenge should not divert each of us from making philanthropic investments in what we thought- Thoughtful and effective philanthropy requires that the fully believe to be the highest and best use of our resources. above issues, and more, be addressed with the same The challenges, even set-backs, I have experienced in my acumen, creativity and tenacity that many of us learned decades of personal engagement in philanthropy pale in and applied in our business careers. Philanthropy, though, comparison to the impact and deep personal satisfaction also brings with it a different set of complexities, attrac- we have realized. tions and distractions. I welcomed our initial discussions on these important issues and hope to have the opportunity As I indicated at our recent meeting, I don’t pretend to to follow up on them with you and others. have the answers to the many challenges facing those who choose to contribute their wealth to philanthropic activities. My deepest thanks to you, Melinda and Warren for leading But I do have almost 30 years of personal and institutional this transformative effort and, again, congratulations on experience engaging with the wide range of philanthropic this historic achievement. issues and choices, and I would like to contribute this expe- With best regards, rience to the Giving Pledge effort. Fundamental to all philanthropic efforts are choices about grant making focus and strategy, which naturally are strongly influenced by one’s passions and interests, as well as one’s perception of how best to achieve good value and lasting impact with the intended grant funds. This typically is a frequently-revisited process as one learns and gains perspective from experience and granting opportunities evolve. Another key element is the myriad decisions associated with how to conduct grant making, such as

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The Atlantic Philanthropies: A Timeline

1997 Atlantic sheds its anonymity 1982 and begins Chuck Feeney communicating establishes Atlantic about Giving While Philanthropies Living as part of its in Bermuda. The 1990 change strategy. foundation operates Atlantic opens an anonymously for its office in the Republic 1991 first15 years due to of Ireland. The Grant­making begins Feeney’s desire for foundation builds on in Northern Ireland, flexibility and a Feeney’s business driven by Feeney’s low profile. Atlantic interests in the country desire to see peace makes its first and the sense that and economic growth grant in the U.S. to opportunities abound in the region in his Cornell University. to help Ireland develop lifetime. a better future.

1984 Feeney transfers virtually all of his wealth to Atlantic. This unprecedented act demonstrates his philosophy of 1991 Giving While Living. The first grants are made in South Africa. Atlantic seeks opportunities to help advance equity, education, and health in post-apartheid times.

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2002 Atlantic becomes a limited-life foundation, setting out to invest its entire endowment in Feeney’s lifetime. 2012 2016 The foundation makes 1999 its largest grant ever, Atlantic concludes Grantmaking kickstarting­ the first all grant­making; begins in Viet Nam. stage of Cornell’s Tech makes final Evolves into a 14- campus in New York culminating year program that City, which will be a grants — including delivers big bang mag­net for world­class for the Atlantic for the buck to research­ers, entre­ Fellows Program — help improve preneurs and business and shifts to active higher education incubators. dissemination and and health care. ongoing monitoring.

1998 2012 2020 The first bio­­tech­­ Atlantic begins to Atlantic nology research capture and share concludes all grant is made in lessons learned, operations. Australia. Additional with the goal of investments in providing guidance educational and 2002 and inspiration to research facili­ties The Atlantic current and future result in hundreds Charitable Trust philanthropists. of medical makes its first grants breakthroughs. in Cuba. A 13-year program is developed to strengthen and share Cuba’s success­ful model for health care.

Photos (left to right in top row): Donovan Wylie, Magnum Foundation; Audra Melton; The Atlantic Philanthropies; Audra Melton; George Mahashe, Magnum Foundation; and Iwan Baan/Cornell Tech; (left to right in bottom row) Peter Foley; Mikhael Subotzky, Magnum Foundation; Audra Melton; Cristina Garcia Rodero, Magnum Foundation; and Donovan Wylie, Magnum Foundation.

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By the Numbers: $8 Billion, 6,500 Grants, 2,500 Grantees and 1 Broke Billionaire

From 1982 through 2016, Atlantic invested over $8 billion in promising people, programs and places where we saw the chance to make a difference during our founder’s lifetime.

Grants by Geographic Area

Northern Ireland $570 million

United States Republic of Ireland $3.9 billion $1.3 billion

Bermuda $28 million Viet Nam $382 million

Cuba Australia $68 million South Africa $368 million $424 million

Global/Other grants: $899 million

Grants by Program Program Amount (millions) Knowledge, Research & Innovation $3,737 Human Rights & Reconciliation $871 Aging $736 Health $706 Children & Youth $658 Atlantic Fellows $660 Cross Program $199 Other $434 $8,003 66 “The truth is, all the credit goes to our grantees. Atlantic carried out our side, but that was the easy side. The real work was on their side. We are proud to be associated with high-quality people doing what they say they will do.” Chuck Feeney atlanticphilanthropies.org 68