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She Launched a Mentorship Program to Create More Black Healthcare Professionals
By Kandia Johnson Dr. Christina T. Rosenthal is a dentist, social entrepreneur, and recently named Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity, one of nearly 300 people working worldwide to build fairer, healthier, and more inclusive societies. Just one year out of dental school, she opened her first private…
Author: Black Enterprise
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Privileged People Don’t Need Politics
By Tanya Charles It’s a Friday night, the first one after Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa is announced as Zimbabwe’s second democratically elected president. I am in the capital, Harare, where I have come to meet a friend for a late lunch and a strong drink after…
Author: Mail & Guardian
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Warren Buffett Honors His Hero, the Billionaire Who Secretly Gave It All Away
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates share a common hero, the under-the-radar philanthropist Chuck Feeney. By Dan Alexander Warren Buffett and Bill Gates are the two most iconic philanthropists in the world, having given away tens of billions to much fanfare. But their role model is…
Author: Forbes
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The Moral Case for Change
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 here In 1965, Bill Moyers, then a young White…
Author: Yes! Magazine
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President of Ireland Joins the Bay Area Council In Honoring Marc Benioff and Chuck Feeney
Salesforce Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff and Duty Free Shoppers Group Founder Chuck Feeney were the guests of honor at the Bay Area Council’s 70th Anniversary Annual Dinner and 2015 Bay Area Business Hall of Fame gathering on Wednesday, October 28, at The Fairmont Hotel…
Author: TMG Partners
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Four Successful Innovators Earn UCSF’s Highest Honor
By Leland Kim on April 3, 2012 Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, will bestow the University’s highest honor to four internationally renowned innovators and leaders for outstanding contributions in areas associated with UCSF’s mission to advance health worldwide. She will present the UCSF Medal at the 2012 Founder’s Day…
Author: University of California, San Francisco
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Why More and More Philanthropies Are Choosing to Put Themselves Out of Business
The limited-life foundation–where big donors pledge to spend all their money in a certain short period of time–offers the potential for a bigger immediate impact at the expense of longevity. ILLUSTRATIONS: CIENPIES/ISTOCK By Ben Paynter The majority of America’s top foundation leaders recently admitted in…
Author: Fast Company
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The ‘Giving While Living’ Superhero
Chuck Feeney is the biggest philanthropist people know nothing about. The reclusive former billionaire not only decided to give away all his wealth in his own lifetime, but also leads a life of disarming simplicity. By N Mahalakshmi Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do…
Author: Outlook Business
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Letters to the Editor: Philanthropy and Racism
Original Source To the Editor: Structural-racism training programs have helped hundreds of nonprofit organizations and community foundations, many of which are administered or operated by white people but primarily serve people of color, learn how to orient their theories of change from charity to empowerment…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Older job seekers struggle to overcome age barrier
The Urban Institute and AARP are Atlantic grantees. by CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER Like many unemployed older workers, 64-year old Allan Kellum fears his age has made it harder to find a new job. At a recent job fair, Kellum expressed interest in a supervisory role…
Author: Associated Press Online
