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US billionaire due to match CBRJ funding
Source: Irish News
Original Source By Barry McCaffrey An American billionaire yesterday announced that he is to match British government funding for community-based restorative justice (CBRJ) projects. Over the next three years American billionaire Chuck Feeney and the NIO will jointly provide £600,000 funding for community-based restorative justice…
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Secret Billionaire -- The Chuck Feeney Story
Source: Irish Independent
Airing Tuesday, RTE1, 10.10pmBy Paul Whitington In these days of rampant cynicism and endless exposés of rapacious businessmen and dodgy bankers, the story of Chuck Feeney is enough to renew your faith in human nature. An Irish-American born in New Jersey during the Great Depression,…
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Billionaire philanthropist funds key health survey
Source: Sunday Tribune (Ireland)
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…
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Hon Hai's Billionaire Chairman to Give 90% of Wealth to Charity
Source: Bloomberg.com
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…
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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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Shy billionaire gives $102 million to Queensland
Source: Brisbane Times
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 develop vaccines…
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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
Source: Irish Times
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…
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Billionaire Feeney is Dunphy guest
Source: RTE Radio 1
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…
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FARC fallout: Billionaire saddened over cutting anti-corruption funding
Source: Irish Examiner
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,…
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