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Looking for New Year Inspiration? Meet Chuck Feeney -- The James Bond of Philanthropy
By Steven Bertoni In the spring of 2017, I interviewed Chuck Feeney, the founder of both Duty Free Shoppers and private equity giant General Atlantic — and one of the wealthiest entrepreneurs in the world. At least, he used to be. Photo: David CantwellWe met in…
Author: Forbes
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Businessman Mervyn McCall Explains Why He Has Set Up a £500,000 Philanthropy Fund
By Mervyn McCall Inspired by philanthropists like Chuck Feeney, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, I had been thinking for some time about the type of charitable contribution I would like to make in Northern Ireland. In the end I was simply driven by the desire…
Author: The Irish News
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Giving While Living Featured on 'Top of Mind'
Christopher Oechsli, Atlantic’s President and CEO, discussed founder Chuck Feeney and “Giving While Living” on BYU Radio’s Top of Mind with Julie Rose. Listen now > Giving While Living Guest: Christopher Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies “The man Forbes magazine calls the most…
Author: BYU Radio
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Final Grant From Atlantic Supports The Cornell Tradition
By Diane Lebo Wallace The Cornell Tradition awards 500 fellowships each year to Cornell students who demonstrate significant work experience, a commitment to campus and/or community service, and academic achievement. Photo: Lindsay France/University Photography The Atlantic Philanthropies, the foundation established by entrepreneur Charles F. Feeney ’56,…
Author: Cornell Chronicle
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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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Investment to Build New Generation of Leaders
Fellowship program, driven by $US50 million grant, will drive change from grass roots up to redress social disadvantage By Andrew Trounson, University of Melbourne A seismic US$50 million investment in societal change in Australia and New Zealand by US-based Atlantic Philanthropies will create a new…
Author: Pursuit
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A Conversation with Atlantic's CEO Christopher Oechsli
Join Cornell University President Emeritus Frank H. T. Rhodes for a conversation with Christopher Oechsli, CEO and president of The Atlantic Philanthropies, the foundation created by Chuck Feeney who graduated from Cornell in 1956. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have called Feeney their role model—and…
Author: Cornell University
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Archives of Atlantic Philanthropies Given to Cornell Library
By Melanie Lefkowitz The archives of The Atlantic Philanthropies, among the world’s largest and most influential foundations, will be housed permanently at Cornell. The archives, which will serve as an important resource for philanthropists and historians, document roughly $8 billion in Atlantic grants over three…
Author: Cornell Chronicle
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Game Changer: The Atlantic Philanthropies
By Nicole Richards Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO of US billionaire Chuck Feeney’s The Atlantic Philanthropies on why philanthropy is a force multiplier, the difference between ‘venture’ and ‘adventure’ philanthropy, and lessons learned from a limited life foundation. “It’s a real honour to talk…
Author: Generosity
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An Unconventional Billionaire Is Revolutionizing Philanthropy By Closing His $8 Billion Foundation
Should charity go on forever? For Chuck Feeney, the answer is an emphatic no–and fellow billionaires, from newly minted Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, can learn from his example. Some people are into extreme sports, others extreme eating. You could call…
Author: Fast Company