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Effort Urges Seniors With Chronic Conditions To Change Habits
by George Lauer It’s like traffic school for chronic offenders. The “traffic” in this case is healthy habits — eating right, exercising, taking your meds. The chronic “offenders” are diabetes, arthritis and heart disease. The “school” is the pivotal part of a new statewide partnership…
Author: California Healthline
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The Transformer: Chuck Feeney '56 Champions the Pleasure of Giving While Living
Rendering of a portion of the future Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, showing the campus lawn, the first academic building (left) and the co-location buidling. Rendering: Luke Yoo/Morphosis By Emily Sanders Hopkins He is Cornell University’s biggest donor. Chuck Feeney ’56. Image: Fennell Photography…
Author: Ezra: Cornell's Quarterly Magazine
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Making and Living History
“Our grants, now completed, are like sown seeds which will bear the fruit of good works long after we turn out the lights at The Atlantic Philanthropies.” – Chuck Feeney Atlantic has been making and living our history lately. In December 2016, we made our…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Action Among Partnerships, Local Health Care Leadership
Original Source by Nadra Kareem, San Fernando Valley Business Journal StaffSenior Services Partnership Partners in Care Foundation, a nonprofit healthcare and social services organization in San Fernando, has announced that it will partner with the California Association of Physician Groups to expand the Healthier Living…
Author: San Fernando Valley Business Journal
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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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"We're not telling people what to do. We just want to show what's possible."
President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, Christopher G. Oechsli, takes a deep dive into lessons learned while executing the $8 billion philanthropic vision of entrepreneur Chuck Feeney, aka the ‘James Bond of Philanthropy’. By Nicole Richards The Atlantic Philanthropies believes in making big bets…
Author: Philanthropy Australia
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New Thinking Needed to Promote Active Ageing
By Anne Connolly Opinion: In Ireland and throughout the developed world, people are living longer and healthier lives. Every decade, life expectancy is increasing by 2.5 years. At least half of the babies born today in Ireland are likely to live to be 100. The Central…
Author: Irish Times
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The Irish-American Billionaire Who Gave Away His Fortune
Chuck Feeney with Ed Walsh, then president of University of Limerick, and Frank Rhodes, president of Cornell, meeting in Plessy House, Limerick, in 1988 at the beginning of a process that would translate into hundreds of millions for higher education in Ireland. Chuck Feeney, ‘the…
Author: The Irish Times
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Announces Full Cohort of Atlantic Fellows
The Atlantic Fellows Program empowers catalytic communities of emerging leaders to advance fairer, healthier and more inclusive societies. Hundreds of changemakers working to solve pressing inequality issues around the world. NEW YORK, NY — The Atlantic Fellows program made a major step forward this month…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Aging Council Issues Call-to-Action for Chronic Care Reform
Original Source A new survey commissioned by the non-profit National Council on Aging (NCOA), with support from The Atlantic Philanthropies and the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF), reveals a bleak and broken health care system for millions of Americans suffering from a variety of chronic conditions. The results…
Author: EmaxHealth