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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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Chuck Feeney's Legacy Lives on as Philanthropic Fund Winds Down
By Ailish O’Horaand Programme leaders from Trinity College Dublin met their benefactor – philanthropist and former billionaire Charles ‘Chuck’ Feeney – at the Global Brain Health Institute conference in San Francisco last week. They were among 70 programme leaders who gathered together from across the…
Author: Irish Independent
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Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Establish Global Brain Health Institute to Tackle Dementia
The Atlantic Philanthropies is giving $177 million to Trinity College Dublin and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to establish the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), a groundbreaking initiative that aims to tackle the looming dementia epidemic and improve health and dementia care worldwide. This…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Hartford Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies, AGS Foundation for Health in Aging Award Over $2 Million for Medical Research
Address Urgent Health Care Needs of Growing Elderly Population For Immediate Release For Further Information: Mary Anne Shannon (212) 308-1414 x301 New York, NY – The American Geriatrics Society, The John A. Hartford Foundation, The Atlantic Philanthropies, and the AGS Foundation for Health in Aging…
Author: American Geriatric Society (AGS)
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A California financier emerges as one of the nation's most prolific philanthropists
Bernard Osher, called the ‘quiet giver,’ donates large sums to education and the arts. Original Source Reporter Paul Van Slambrouck discusses the character of ‘The Quiet Philanthropist.’ From a distance, the philanthropic world can look much like the for-profit world. The metrics that seem to…
Author: The Christian Science Monitor
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Why Donating Millions Is Hard To Keep Secret
Anonymous Gifts Are Growing, But Groups Are Under Pressure To Reveal Benefactors’ Names As anonymous giving to charities increases, it’s getting harder for donors to maintain the anonymous part. Wealthy philanthropists last year made 37 gifts of $5 million or more without publicly revealing their…
Author: Wall Street Journal
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The Next Generation of Leaders Advocating for Brain Health
By Dana Smith A monologist, a musician, an event producer, and an animal behaviourist are working to change how society thinks about aging and dementia. These individuals are part of the first cohort of Atlantic Fellows at the Global Brain Health Institute and are using…
Author: The Lancet
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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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12 People Who Are Changing Your Retirement
Joseph Coughlin describes his work as “trying to get people to ‘age cool.’ ” More specifically, as director of AgeLab, a research program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is pushing advances in transportation, health care and housing off drawing boards and into older…
Author: Wall Street Journal
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Chuck Feeney: Giving It All Away
Atlantic Philanthropies has this year wound itself up as quietly as it arrived in Ireland more than 30 years ago, after dispensing €1bn on Irish projects. Our reporter profiles Chuck Feeney — the billionaire backer of an extraordinary foundation. By Liam Collins Everybody you meet…
Author: Independent.ie