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Irish Universities Association
$14,272,483
Resource type: Grantee
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Nursing gets shot in the arm
Source: Business Day (South Africa)
Original Source Click here to listen to the interview. Summit TV speaks to Dr Victoria Pinkney-Atkinson about the award of millions of dollars by The Atlantic Philanthropies into South African nursing educational institutions that may change the face of nursing as we know it. Jane…
Resource type: News
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Expansion of National Colleges Study Funded
Source: University of California, Riverside
RIVERSIDE, Calif. UC Riverside researchers have received a three-year, $390,060 grant from the Spencer Foundation to expand and update the Colleges & Universities 2000 study, which investigates patterns of continuity and change in four-year higher education institutions in the United States. A research team headed…
Resource type: News
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Philanthropy and Higher Education in Australia
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
By David WheelerSydney–How do you take the “culture of giving” that fund raisers believe can be found in every country, and turn that culture to the advantage of universities? Australia has been seeking its own answer to that question. While it is old news that…
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Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI)
The University College Dublin Foundation Limited received PRTLI grants, described below, from The Atlantic Philanthropies and Higher Education Authority for support for the Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology and the Molecular Medicine Centre. Taking a big risk in grantmaking has paid off hugely for Ireland and…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Taking a big risk in grantmaking has paid off hugely for Ireland and Atlantic by creating a competitive strategic research environment. By 1996, Atlantic had made major contributions to the country’s university educational infrastructure. Yet, Chuck Feeney, our Founding Chairman, envisioned a quantum leap to…
Resource type: News
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'A Quantum Jump': Reinvigorating University Research in Ireland
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Like many Irish Americans, Chuck Feeney, Atlantic’s founder, has a profound affection for his ancestral land. Luckily for the Irish, that abiding love has prompted a radical transformation in the country, which started with a focus on enriching the university experience nationwide—both with capital grants…
Resource type: News
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World Health Organisation accredits Ireland-Vietnam Virus Initiative co-funded by Irish Aid and Atlantic Philanthropies
Source: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
The World Health Organisation has awarded accreditation to the Ireland-Vietnam Blood Borne Virus Initiative (IVVI) which is co-funded by Irish Aid and Atlantic Philanthropies. The IVVI carries out disease prevention and health promotion in Vietnam, a country wracked by blood-borne viruses such as HIV and…
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Charles Feeney
Source: The Scientist (Life Sciences in Ireland supplement)
Famously private, and equally generous, Chuck Feeney helped transform Irish academic research. Original Source by Cormac Sheridan This coming September, the great and the good of Ireland's government and education sectors will assemble in Dublin as part of a yearlong celebration of the 10th anniversary…
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Nursing education in South Africa receives an R70m boost
Original Source Four universities will divide among them a sum of R70m, donated to help improve nursing education in the country over the next four years, the Inyathelo organisation announced on Thursday. The grants, courtesy of The Atlantic Philanthropies, an international philanthropic organisation, are aimed…
Resource type: News