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The Quiet Change-Maker
Although Chuck Feeney has kept a low profile, his generosity has served as a catalyst for extraordinary scientific breakthroughs. Chuck Feeney, one of Stanford’s most generous yet least-known supporters, is on track to give away more than $7.5 billion to causes worldwide. PHOTO: Pascal Perich…
Author: Stanford Benefactor
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Four Successful Innovators Earn UCSF’s Highest Honor
By Leland Kim on April 3, 2012 Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, will bestow the University’s highest honor to four internationally renowned innovators and leaders for outstanding contributions in areas associated with UCSF’s mission to advance health worldwide. She will present the UCSF Medal at the 2012 Founder’s Day…
Author: University of California, San Francisco
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As Millions Plan Longer Working Lives, Stanford Summit to Promote a New Social Norm: Encore Careers for the Greater Good
New Brand Draws Attention to the Pause at the End of Midlife Careers and the Good Work That Can Follow Original Source SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5 (AScribe Newswire) — Hundreds of people in encore careers, plus leaders in business, education, government, philanthropy, academia and public…
Author: AScribe Newswire
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A Good Ending
By Christopher G. Oechsli & David La Piana We usually think of large private foundations (those with assets of more than $1 billion) as permanent endowments. Names like Ford, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Packard summon the image of a donor whose vision—and wealth—lasts well beyond his…
Author: Stanford Social Innovation Review
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Mapping a Finite Highway
Almost a decade ago, Joel Fleishman, director of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy, got a call from a foundation that had recently decided to expend its endowment and complete its grantmaking within 12-15 years. The foundation was asking for his help in collecting and synthesizing…
Author: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
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Money to Grow On
By William Foster In the for-profit world, the term investment has clear meaning and investors have sophisticated techniques for spotting and growing the most promising companies. Yet foundations and other nonprofit donors have not developed similar clarity or approaches. As a result, the nonprofit sector’s…
Author: Stanford Social Innovation Review
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Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions
Taking a big risk in grantmaking has paid off hugely for Ireland and Atlantic by creating a competitive strategic research environment. By 1996, Atlantic had made major contributions to the country’s university educational infrastructure. Yet, Chuck Feeney, our Founding Chairman, envisioned a quantum leap to…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Op-Ed: Education Is All in Your Mind
By RICHARD E. NISBETT Ann Arbor, Mich. AS Department of Education officials consider how best to spend billions from the economic stimulus plan, they would be wise to pay attention to which programs actually help children’s achievement — and keep in mind that sometimes very…
Author: The New York Times
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Dare to Be 100: John Gardner, Uncommon American
By Walter M. Bortz II, M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University Every life can be measured by the friends that one makes along the way. My life is incredibly richer because of the friendship of one man, John Gardner. A PBS special on his…
Author: Huffington Post
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Five Social Innovators in Encore Careers Win $100,000 Purpose Prize
The Purpose Prize and Civic Ventures are Atlantic grantees. SAN FRANCISCO – This year’s winners of The Purpose Prize, a $100,000 award for social innovators in their encore careers, are using a new stage of life to do extraordinary things to improve life for millions…
Author: Encore Careers / Civic Ventures