Activities
AP concentrates its donations in four strategic programme areas: Ageing, Children & Youth Population Health and Reconciliation & Human Rights
As of 2007, The Atlantic Philanthropies had distributed $2 billion to recipients in the US, over $1 billion to Ireland and more than $200 million each to Australia and Vietnam. Atlantic has completed a number of major capital projects worldwide, largely medical and educational facilities. As of 2011, Atlantic has $2.5 billion remaining to disburse.
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Famous quotes containing the word activities:
“If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one’s own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.”
—David Elkind (20th century)
“No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.”
—John Dewey (1859–1952)