# Atlantic Philanthropies makes significant new grants - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/04/05/atlantic-philanthropies-makes-significant-new-grants/ - Published: 2012-04-05T13:31:56+01:00 - Author: Howard Lake Atlantic Philanthropies has announced a number of significant new grants in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The biggest single grant in the latest round went to the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action (NICVA) which received $1.2 million for ‘public expenditure analysis.’ The Active Retirement Network in the Republic of Ireland received a grant of $1 million for capacity building. Other grants went to the NI Human Rights Commission ($792,000) for mainstreaming human rights within government, Community Foundation NI ($624,000) to extend the Turkington small grants scheme which supports elderly people, Strategem NI ($518,000) for providing support to AP grantees, Chesapeake Research ($500,000) for evaluation services and Trinity Foundation ($482,000) for the ageing programme. ## Advertisement Most of the grant recipients have received funding in the past from Atlantic Philanthropies, with Trinity Foundation’s latest grant bringing the total to over $55 million since the early 2000s. Atlantic Philanthropies make grants through their Ageing, Children & Youth, Population Health and Reconciliation & Human Rights Programmes. Atlantic also makes Founding Chairman grants. As well as Ireland, the grantmaker is active in South Africa, the United States and Viet Nam. www.atlanticphilanthropies.org * **[Ireland Trust Fund offers grants for women's projects](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/04/24/ireland-trust-fund-offers-grants-women039s-projects/)**( 24 April 2012) * **[£1.5 million on offer in Northern Ireland for community services](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/05/23/15-million-offer-northern-ireland-community-services/)**( 23 May 2012) * **[Companies donate €16.7 million to Irish charities](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/05/27/companies-donate-e167-million-irish-charities/)**( 27 May 2012)