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A Big Bet on Advocacy Helps to Make History on Health Care
“Health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.” I can’t tell you what a thrill it was to hear President Obama speak those words, a few hours ago, after signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Children at Centre of Pilot Domestic Violence Service
By Ronan McGreevy. The first dedicated service for child victims of domestic violence in Ireland has been launched in Co Mayo. The Mayo Children’s Initiative (MCI) in Castlebar is funded exclusively by Atlantic Philanthropies, the foundation set up by Irish-American billionaire Chuck Feeney. Atlantic Philanthropies…
Author: The Irish Times
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Update from Northern Ireland: February Agreement Puts Government Back on the Track to Peace
Northern Ireland was a different place when Atlantic first began making grants there in the early 1990s. The violent conflict had claimed thousands of lives and had deeply divided communities. Atlantic was drawn to the country by Atlantic Founder, Chuck Feeney, who himself played an…
Author: Martin OBrien
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Learning to Give
Two articles from the Irish press describe modern challenges to Philanthropy, and the innovations of Atlantic’s founder, Chuck Feeney.
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University of Limerick receives €6.7m in donations
University of Limerick Foundation is an Atlantic grantee. By Anne Sheridan EVEN in times of hardship people’s generosity towards the University of Limerick seems to know no bounds. The latest figures submitted to the Companies Registration Office reveal that the University of Limerick Foundation, which…
Author: Limerick Leader
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Study to examine cross-border care
The Centre for Cross Border Studies is an Atlantic grantee. A new cross-border study will revisit the controversial Teamwork report that recommended just one public hospital in the northeast with 24/7 clinical services. As staff in the region are digesting the news that emergency services,…
Author: Irish Medical Times
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Pensioners given the voice to fight against fuel poverty
Original Source Age Sector Platform is an Atlantic grantee. Photo: CAMPAIGN: Bill Carson, Alison McElhinney and Phil Evans at the age sector platform PICTURE: Hugh Russell FIFTY-ONE per cent of all households experiencing fuel poverty in Northern Ireland are pensioner households. In Northern Ireland almost…
Author: Irish News
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University foundation grants hit €8.2m
The University of Limerick Foundation gave out €8.2 million in grants last year, after a sharp rise in donations and gifts, writes Gavin Daly. The foundation’s figures for the 12 months to the end of August last show an increase in income and expenditure compared…
Author: Sunday Business Post
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Pupils show they have the write stuff
Efforts to increase child literacy has experts flocking to Ballymun, writes Gabrielle Monaghan Youngballymun and Barnardos are Atlantic grantees. Across the road from the Virgin Mary Girls’ National School, some of Ballymun’s last tower blocks stand half-empty. Roddy Doyle may have immortalised them in The…
Author: The Sunday Times (London)
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Gara LaMarche '76's Job Is To Give Away $4 Billion
Original Source By Thomas F. Ferguson ’74 By the time most people are 50, they have learned to spend less than they earn. Gara LaMarche ’76 has had to unlearn that rule in his job as CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, a $4 billion global…
Author: Columbia College Today Alumni Magazine May/June 2008