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Alliance encourages elderly to highlight needs to candidates
Several Atlantic grantees are mentioned in this article. by ALISON HEALY AN ALLIANCE of groups has launched a campaign to encourage older people to highlight their needs when election candidates come calling in the coming weeks. The Older And Bolder alliance said its “On the…
Author: The Irish Times
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John R. Healy, CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, to Step Down in September 2007
HAMILTON, Bermuda The Atlantic Philanthropies announced today that its chief executive officer, John R. Healy, will step down in September 2007. Mr Healy, who was appointed CEO for a five-year term in September 2001, has agreed to extend his term for an additional year before…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Intergenerational Bond Keeping Families Afloat During the Recession – New Report Finds
NUI Galway’s Professor Thomas Scharf; TCD Professor Virpi Timonen; Author, Roisin Ingle; Dr Catherine Conlon, and Gemma Carney, NUI Galway Family networks and a strong bond between young and old are keeping many Irish people afloat during the recession, according to new research on the…
Author: NUI Galway
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A Laughing Matter: SF Comedian Looks to Tell the Stories of Dementia Patients, Caregivers
Josh Kornbluth is Among the Global Brain Health Institute’s 32 Inaugural Atlantic Fellows Artist Josh Kornbluth (left), a comedic autobiographical monologist, participates in a clinicopathological section with Lea T. Grinberg, MD, PhD, as part of his fellowship at the Global Brain Health Institute. Photo by…
Author: University of California San Francisco
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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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Atlantic's Focus on Dementia Goes Global
For more than two decades Atlantic has invested in programs to strengthen the quality of our lives, with a major emphasis on addressing needs arising from a worldwide population living longer than ever. Part of that work has included support for initiatives to leverage the…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, 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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Celebrating Irishness: Charles ‘Chuck’ Feeney
Charles Feeney was born to a working class family in New Jersey, USA in the early 1930′s. His father’s mother hailed from near Kinawley, in Co Fermanagh, from where she emigrated to the USA. In the 1960′s he co-founded Duty Free Shoppers, which sold luxury…
Author: The Silver Voice
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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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Parents Bankrolling Adult Children and Not Looking After Own Health – Study
TCD’s Tilda began tracking over 8,000 adults aged 50 and over in 2010. Photograph: Getty Images By Paul Cullen Ireland’s older adults are bankrolling their children, providing care for their grandchildren but leaving their own health challenges untreated or undiagnosed, a new study suggests. Older…
Author: The Irish Times