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Atlantic Fellows: Advancing Fairer, Healthier, More Inclusive Societies
From their inception, The Atlantic Philanthropies have invested in people and in their vision, opportunity and ability to realize a better world. When Chuck Feeney established the foundation in 1982, its first grant was $7 million to Cornell University to create the Cornell Tradition, a…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
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From Alpha to Omega: Choices and Challenges of Limited Life Philanthropy
By Joanne Florino Many thanks to the Center for Effective Philanthropy for a thoughtfully structured and informative research report on the why and how of limited life foundations. Any foundation donor and/or board considering an option other than perpetuity will be well served by a…
Author: The Center for Effective Philanthropy
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My Syrian Refugee Grandparents’ Lost America
By Christopher Oechsli Almost 115 years ago, Abraham and Camelia George left the small Syrian village of Mattan Arnouk. They sailed past the Statue of Liberty and landed on Ellis Island. They were refugees. Syrian refugees. They passed through a Manhattan neighborhood known as Little…
Author: New York Daily News
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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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More schools rethinking zero-tolerance discipline stand
This article from The Washington Post highlights several Atlantic Children & Youth programme grantees that are working at the local, state and national level to reform zero-tolerance disciplinary policies, which harm children by punishing any rule infraction, regardless of severity or circumstances, and often use…
Author: The Washington Post
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Students Spell Out Messages on Immigration
By JULIA PRESTON MIAMI — Dozens of college students lay down on South Beach on Sunday afternoon, but not to sunbathe. Most were immigrants in this country illegally, and their bodies, fully clothed, formed giant letters that spelled out a message for Floridians and one of…
Author: The New York Times
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Where the Billions Will Go
By Tom Watson. The pledge by Warren Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates, and other billionaires to give away large parts of their fortunes leaves a question: Where will the money go? There’s a new solicitor general in this country and his name is Warren Buffett.…
Author: The Daily Beast
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A fortunate life to give
By Stefanie Balogh Billionaire American Chuck Feeney, who has bankrolled much of Queensland’s scientific and medical research, began his philanthropy in secret, writes Stefanie Balogh in New York FRUGAL to the point of eccentricity, Chuck Feeney travels the world economy class, wears a cheap plastic…
Author: The Courier Mail (Australia)
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An elusive billionaire gives away his good fortune
Chuck Feeney, who nudges others to give while living, plans to donate $8 billion by 2016. Just don’t put his name on anything. By Margot Roosevelt One by one, speakers rose to toast the elderly gent with baggy pants and a shy, gaptoothed smile. “Of…
Author: Los Angeles Times
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Fritz Schwarz to Head The Atlantic Philanthropies Board; Two New Board Members Named
New York, July 3, 2008 The Board of Directors of The Atlantic Philanthropies has elected Frederick Fritz A. O. Schwarz, Jr., as chairman and appointed two new board members. The two new board members are Cecilia Munoz, Vice President of the National Council of LaRaza,…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
