Our mission and vision

Mission of the Atlantic Institute

The Atlantic Institute seeks to amplify the influence and impact of the Atlantic Fellows and the Atlantic Fellows programs by:

  • Supporting lifelong community among Atlantic Fellows, with access to resources and opportunities to connect, learn and work together;
  • Promoting collaboration and shared approaches across Atlantic Fellows programs, with virtual and face-to-face platforms for sharing knowledge;
  • Extending community by connecting Atlantic Fellows and Atlantic Fellows programs to a broader global network of equity-focused leadership initiatives; and
  • Raising global awareness of the work of the Fellows and of the programs.

Vision for the global Atlantic Fellows community

Atlantic Fellows are a diverse, international community of leaders who share a deep commitment to advancing fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies. They are courageous, compassionate, and collaborative thinkers and doers who collectively seek to bring lasting improvements to their communities and the world. Their diversity enables them to look at the causes of systemic problems from multiple perspectives to more effectively address the root causes rather than the symptoms.

The Atlantic Fellows programs bring together passionate, experienced individuals from different backgrounds, areas of expertise, and professions to learn from one another and collaborate to advance solutions to pressing problems. Cohorts across programs include advocates, lawyers, artists, business professionals, health practitioners, government officials, academics and researchers. The programs are designed to increase Fellows’ understanding, capacity, and commitment, and help them access the resources and networks that they need to accelerate their work and achieve demonstrable impact.

Each of the programs is unique and grounded in its local context but united through a shared Atlantic Fellows identity and the shared principles, objectives, experience, values and attributes it represents. The Atlantic Institute amplifies the influence and impact of the Atlantic Fellows network with long-term resources and opportunities to connect, learn and work together.

The Atlantic Philanthropies established the Atlantic Fellows to culminate the foundation’s work in the geographies and themes in which it historically focused, and its long history of investing in people and their vision and ability to realize a better world. Atlantic’s final — and largest — investment, made alongside other partner organizations and governments, aims to support the work of a global community of thousands of Atlantic Fellows over the next two decades, and beyond.