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Buildings, Bridges and Big Bets
Chuck Feeney, with Cornell University President Frank Rhodes and Ed Walsh, Limerick president, at Plassey House in 1988. From Elizabeth, N.J., where our founder, Chuck Feeney was born and raised, you can follow the Elizabeth River into New York Bay, all the way across the…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
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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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Up Close: Blogging from South Africa
Night and a Day in Queenstown Posted by Gara LaMarche | 18 March 2011, South Africa As Jack has chronicled, we arrived in Queenstown, the final leg of our journey in the Eastern Cape, in the dark, around 7 p.m. This was a problem for two…
Author: Gara LaMarche and Jack Rosenthal
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Youth group opens centre in former drug den in North Hamilton
By TAURIA RAYNOR A building once used for illicit activity has been completely transformed by a grassroots organisation that provides free assistance to entrepreneurs. Youth on the Move (YOM) was founded on the principle that the ability to achieve something positive, is within everyone’s reach.…
Author: The Royal Gazette
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Seeking to Intervene With Young Adults Before Crime Becomes a Way of Life
Original Source By KAREEM FAHIM Almost every time he was released from jail, Wilfredo Hierrezuelo stumbled back in, once after an arrest for dealing drugs, another time after he assaulted a school safety guard. By the time he walked out of Rikers Island in October…
Author: The New York Times
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Should Children Pay the Price for Inhumane U.S. Immigration Policies?
Every so often a story serves as a wake-up call that something is very wrong with the way the United States government deals with things. So it was with Saturday’s New York Times article about the actions of federal immigration agents last month in Ohio…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Giving While Living: Chuck Feeney’s Role in This World
The term “Giving While Living” is globally associated with Chuck Feeney, the Founding Chair of The Atlantic Philanthropies, a major international philanthropic foundation. He is the “anonymous donor”, a man who lives to give away billions. Photo: Charles Feeney – Atlantic Philanthropies Founding Chairman…
Author: Daily Maverick
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What Chuck Feeney’s Fistful of Dollars Did for Education
By 2016 philanthropist Chuck Feeney will have given €1.5 billion to education projects in Ireland. A weighty new photographic book illustrates his generosity here and abroad. Schoolchildren in Cape Town visit Robben Island; the island’s visitor centre is funded by Atlantic Philanthropies. Photograph by Magnum…
Author: The Irish Times
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Scanning the Skyline: Lessons From 30 Years of Capital Grantmaking
Buildings have a special allure for philanthropy—their mass, their unambiguous reality, their durability, their promise of sheltering great transformative enterprise—that few other achievements can match. They also conjure a cloud of distinctive risks: the possibility of inadequate maintenance, financial drain, premature obsolescence, the danger that…
Author: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
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Alameda County Health Clinic Network for Neediest
Karen Gersten-Rothenberg, director of Havenscourt Health Center, talks with Carlos Aguilar and his mother. Photo: Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle By Stephanie M. Lee Getting blood drawn should have been an easy part of Selesi Alatini’s checkup. But on this day, the nurses at Havenscourt Health…
Author: San Francisco Chronicle