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Billionaire philanthropist funds key health survey
Original Source by Mark Hilliard AN American billionaire is funding an unprecedented survey on Irish life that will take 10 years to complete, incorporate thousands of people and cost EUR29m. The study on ageing in Ireland aims to follow 10 years in the life of…
Author: Sunday Tribune (Ireland)
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Hon Hai's Billionaire Chairman to Give 90% of Wealth to Charity
Original Source By Janet Ong July 24 (Bloomberg) — Terry Gou, Taiwan’s third-wealthiest businessman and chairman of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., has pledged to donate 90 percent of his wealth to charity, the billionaire’s aide said. The tycoon, estimated by Forbes magazine with $6…
Author: Bloomberg.com
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An Unconventional Billionaire Is Revolutionizing Philanthropy By Closing His $8 Billion Foundation
Should charity go on forever? For Chuck Feeney, the answer is an emphatic no–and fellow billionaires, from newly minted Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, can learn from his example. Some people are into extreme sports, others extreme eating. You could call…
Author: Fast Company
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Shy billionaire gives $102 million to Queensland
By Tony Moore. Who is Charles “Chuck” Feeney and why is Premier Anna Bligh so keen to be photographed with him? The answer is a $102 million gift the Irish-American billionaire yesterday gave to three Queensland medical research centres to help scientists fight cancer and…
Author: Brisbane Times
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RTE One's One Six One News discusses Chuck Feeney documentary, "Secret Billionaire"
In this segment, Samantha Liberi reports that billionaire philanthropist Chuck Feeney gives a rare interview in a documentary about his life, aired tonight on RTÉ. (2:10)
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Rich pickings in an overlong, authorised biography of a billionaire investor
BOOK OF THE DAY: The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder Bloomsbury 960pp, £25 reviewed by CONOR O’CLERY THIS IS the second major biography of Warren Buffett, whose net worth was recently estimated at US$62 billion, but the first which…
Author: Irish Times
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Billionaire Feeney is Dunphy guest
Eamon’s guest is the Irish-American philanthropist Chuck Feeney. In 1984 the billionaire decided to set up a foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies, to direct funds anonymously to worthy causes, and devote the remainder of his life to giving away his money. The foundation has over the past…
Author: RTE Radio 1
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FARC fallout: Billionaire saddened over cutting anti-corruption funding
THE billionaire backer of an Irish anti-corruption office has admitted he was sad to pull its funding when it got caught up in a controversy surrounding alleged IRA training for Colombian guerrillas. In a rare interview to be broadcast today, Irish-American philanthropist Chuck Feeney, 77,…
Author: Irish Examiner
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Chuck Feeney, the Billionaire Who Wasn't, Pledges $177 Million to Universities to Fight Dementia
By Kerry A. Dolan Chuck Feeney, the cofounder of Duty Free Shoppers, was dubbed “the James Bond of philanthropy” by Forbes in 2012. For years, his charitable entity The Atlantic Philanthropies anonymously gave away tens of millions around the globe. It’s been operating in daylight…
Author: Forbes
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Chuck Feeney: The Billionaire Who Is Trying To Go Broke
This story appears in the October 8th issue of Forbes magazine — “Making it Big, Giving it Big” — the first Forbes 400 devoted entirely to philanthropy. By Steven Bertoni On a cool summer afternoon at Dublin’s Heuston Station, Chuck Feeney, 81, gingerly stepped off a…
Author: Forbes