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Laying Foundations for Change - #GivingWhileLiving
This month Harriett and I attended the Atlantic Philanthropies’ Laying Foundations for Change panel, hosted by Koda Capital. Peter Hoj and Peter Coaldrake, Vice Chancellors of UQ and QUT respectively, Allan English, the 2014 Philanthropy Leader of the Year, and Chris Oechsli, the President and CEO of Atlantic…
Author: Strategic Grants
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Laying Foundations for Change: The Atlantic Philanthropies in Melbourne
Warren Buffett’s bid to out-do Chuck Feeney’s legendary $15 Casio watch, teaching the billionaire philanthropist how to use the Melbourne tram system and spreading the word on Giving While Living were just a handful of the topics covered during Atlantic Philanthropies recent visit to Australia.…
Author: Generosity
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Many Foundations Have Lost Almost One-Third of Their Assets, Chronicle Study Finds
Original Source By Noelle Barton and Ian Wilhelm The steep decline in the stock market last year triggered an erosion of foundation wealth, with many grant makers losing nearly one-third of their assets, according to a new Chronicle survey of some of the nation’s largest philanthropies. For…
Author: Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Planning for the Afterlife
As Atlantic winds up its work, we’re also laying the foundation for post-life communications. The big question: How will we have influence after the last check is written? By David Morse and Elizabeth Cahill At The Atlantic Philanthropies, our communications goals are simple and straightforward.…
Author: Change Agent
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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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Philanthropy and Government: Striking the Right Balance
Now that both major parties in the U.S. have presumptive nominees for the Presidency, it seems like a good time to share some thoughts on the relationships between philanthropy and government – relationships that Atlantic has considerable experience with in each of the countries in…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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'A Quantum Jump': Reinvigorating University Research in Ireland
Like many Irish Americans, Chuck Feeney, Atlantic’s founder, has a profound affection for his ancestral land. Luckily for the Irish, that abiding love has prompted a radical transformation in the country, which started with a focus on enriching the university experience nationwide—both with capital grants…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Building More Than Buildings in Northern Ireland
Shay McAleer waiting for class to start at the School of Speech and Drama, a program that takes place at the Millenium Forum, Derry/Londonderry. In a region still healing from political conflict, shared spaces for culture and education promote reconciliation and opportunity. The sectarian violence…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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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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Globetrotting and Goal Setting: Where Will Atlantic Wind Up?
I have been on the road for most of the last four months, more so than in the prior three years I have been leading The Atlantic Philanthropies. In order to take in what Atlantic has done in its three decades-plus of grantmaking, I traveled…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
