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There Are No Pockets In A Shroud
By Roy Exum If you were to go to Da Nang General Hospital in Vietnam today, you would be startled over the fact it is painted green a brilliant shamrock green to be more precise in a veiled effort to thank the Irish-American who built…
Author: The Chattanoogan
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Meet the man who gives the most
Few people outside of the philanthropic world know who he is, but Chuck Feeney gives more to Australia than any local business player – and he thinks this is wrong. It is difficult to tell James Packer, Rupert Murdoch, Frank Lowy and Richard Pratt that…
Author: Australian Financial Review
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Charitable Giving Is Soaring — But Is It Effective?
Philanthropic donations are booming, but post-Great Recession poverty and inequity remain. By Martin Michaels Year after year, the citizenry of the U.S. continues to be one of the most altruistic on earth, volunteering an average of 7.85 billion volunteer hours according to a report by the Corporation for…
Author: MintPress News
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The Power of the People
The calling of Gavin Smith and the Chewstick movement WRITTEN BY COOPER STEVENSON | PHOTOGRAPHY BY: SCOTT TUCKER Chewstick founder Gavin Djata Smith and Carly Lodge There is a corps of Bermudian creatives that, every Saturday night, makes its way into Hamilton to gather…
Author: The Bermudian
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Weighing the Best Vehicles For Philanthropic Giving
By Paul Sullivan KEN NOPAR, who advises others about philanthropy, will face his own decision on charitable giving when his parents die. Should he and his brother keep their parents’ private foundation going or transfer the assets into a donor-advised fund, where they have less…
Author: The New York Times
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Atlantic Philanthropies SVP Colin McCrea interviewed on the Pat Kenny Show, RTE (Ireland)
Colin McCrea, SVP, Atlantic Philanthropies was interviewed on the Pat Kenny Show on Ireland’s National Radio station (RTE) recently in a discussion on philanthropy. The morning chat show of 8 July, 2008, broadcast an interview exploring the field of philanthropy and the role it plays…
Author: Pat Kenny Show, RTE
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Six billion dollar man
Original Source and Video Broadcast: 30/07/2009 Reporter: Kerry O’Brien Quietly spoken American billionaire Chuck Feeney has flown under the public radar for most of his long and very successful life. Over decades he built an international empire of duty free stores, but in the eighties,…
Author: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Mentally Ill and in Immigration Limbo
The Center for Constitutional Rights is an Atlantic grantee. by NINA BERNSTEIN Twice the immigration judge asked the woman’s name. Twice she gave it: Xiu Ping Jiang. But he chided her, a Chinese New Yorker, for answering his question before the court interpreter had translated…
Author: The New York Times
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Charity Cases
Social-networking phenomenon makes it easy for donors to promote their favorite causes online Original Source By PAUL B. CARROLL For most people, networking on the Web means keeping up with friends or building business contacts. Now a number of charities — and thousands of ordinary…
Author: The Wall Street Journal
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Rich man? No, a poor man
Original Source By Susan Daly The great philanthropist Andrew Carnegie once said that inheriting a fortune was a curse. Cast one eye over the troubled offspring of assorted rock stars, billionaires and celebrities and Carnegie’s words ring true today. Now a new generation of Daddy…
Author: The Irish Independent