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An Unconventional Billionaire Is Revolutionizing Philanthropy By Closing His $8 Billion Foundation
Source: Fast Company
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 self-made…
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The Great Give Away
Source: Sunday Times
When you have as much money as Bill Gates, you have to work damn hard to get rid of it. At least if you want to disposeof it wisely. So in May the Microsoft founder, whose fortune is estimated at $53 billion (¤40 billion), was…
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Should Children Pay the Price for Inhumane U.S. Immigration Policies?
Source: Gara LaMarche
Every so often a story serves as a wake-up call that something is very wrong with the way the United States government deals with things. So it was with Saturday’s New York Times article about the actions of federal immigration agents last month in Ohio…
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Feeney ’56 honored for ‘transformative’ contributions to Cornell
Source: Cornell Chronicle
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1140"] Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56, left, with his wife, Helga, in the back right; and President Martha E. Pollack, right, during a virtual presentation of the inaugural Charles F. Feeney ’56 Lifetime Achievement Award for Entrepreneurship and Humanity on April 30.…
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TILDA Celebrates Ten Years of Research Into the Challenges of Ageing in Ireland
Source: The University Times
The study, which has 8,500 participants from across the country, has been internationally recognised for its wide focus of the issues facing older people. By Simon Foy, Senior Editor [caption id="attachment_78329" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Photo: Sinéad Baker for The University Times[/caption] The Irish Longitudinal Study on…
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Meet the 2013 Purpose Prize Winners
Source: Encore.org
By Marc FreedmanIt's a great honor to unveil the stories of our seven inspirational Purpose Prize winners for 2013. These individuals come from all walks of life, but hold one thing in common: each is changing the world in what was once seen as the…
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Meet the 2012 Purpose Prize Winners
Source: Encore.org
By Marc Freedman If you're looking for inspiration, here are five stories that reveal the power of social innovation – and the capacity of individuals in their encore careers. I'm proud to introduce this year's $100,000 Purpose Prize winners. Each of them identified a significant,…
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New Grassroots Initiative Seeks to End Trend of Texas As Last for Children’s Health Care
Source: Texas Care for Children
AUSTIN – For over a decade now, Texas has been the state with the nation’s highest rate of uninsured children, but today a grassroots start-up is launching with the promise to end the trend by instead “building a legacy of healthy children.” With legislators weighing…
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The Moral Case for Change
Source: Yes! Magazine
By Gara LaMarche.Note: This article is adapted from a speech by Gara LaMarche called “The Moral Life of Philanthropy,” given at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in September 2010. You can read the full speech hereIn 1965, Bill Moyers, then a young White House aide,…
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Up Close: Blogging from South Africa
Source: Gara LaMarche and Jack Rosenthal
Night and a Day in QueenstownPosted by Gara LaMarche | 18 March 2011, South AfricaAs Jack has chronicled, we arrived in Queenstown, the final leg of our journey in the Eastern Cape, in the dark, around 7 p.m. This was a problem for two reasons. First, we’d…
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