Results List
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Gates Foundation intends to spend its $67 billion endowment ‘down to zero’ within 20 years of Bill and Melinda’s deaths
Source: Fortune
According to the Gates Foundation, billionaires need to start giving more of their money away—and not just to elite universities, but to high-impact causes that can change and save the most lives. The Gates Foundation, the world’s richest private foundation, is stepping up its own spending,…
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Philanthropist Chuck Feeney dies aged 92
Source: RTE
Irish-American philanthropist Chuck Feeney has died at the age of 92. Through Atlantic Philanthropies, Feeney gave almost $9 billion to various causes. Feeney was born in New Jersey in 1931 during the Great Depression of Irish American parents. He was the first in his family…
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US philanthropist’s transformative impact on University of Limerick
Source: Limerick Post
[caption id="attachment_83426" align="aligncenter" width="515"] UL President Professor Kerstin Mey and Dr Chuck Feeney's son, Patrick Feeney, with one of the signs on the Feeney Way[/caption] THE main thoroughfare on the University of Limerick campus has been renamed ‘Feeney Way’ to honour the ‘transformative impact’ philanthropist…
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Atlantic Fellows Statement on Vaccine Equity
Source: The Atlantic Fellows
As the COVID-19 pandemic continued into 2021, extending and intensifying its reach into communities, particularly in the global South, a number of concerned Atlantic Fellows came together to discuss the issue of the unequal availability of vaccines to certain populations. After a number of discussions…
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The global movement of displaced people is a defining feature of our times
Source: The Atlantic Fellows
Displacement is a global issue, driven by a confluence of intersecting historical and political factors. Yet today, the narratives surrounding it largely silence or vilify those who have become displaced, stoking nationalism and fear. With over 26 million refugees worldwide—half of them children—their voices that…
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The Ethical Argument for Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination of Health Workers
Source: The Atlantic Fellows
Dr Tharani Loganathan, Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in Southeast Asia Recently, an unvaccinated employee set off a COVID-19 outbreak in a nursing home in Kentucky, USA with dozens of residents infected and several deaths. COVID-19 outbreaks in hospitals in Malaysia have brought home with…
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Zanele Figlan reflects on the recent unrest in South Africa
Source: Atlantic Fellows
By Zanele Figlan, Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in South Africa. The recent unrest in our country, South Africa, in the first two weeks of July 2021 is a first in the history of the post-democratic era. It started off as a protest action against…
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Atlantic Fellows Poised As Transformational Future World Leaders Ensuring Social, Economic Equity
Source: Forbes
By Jackie Abramian [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="579"] The 2020-2021 AFSEE Residential Fellows in London. Photoshopped into the photo is the image of one cohort unable to travel to London from Colombia because of COVID restrictions. AFSEE[/caption] Once a year, mid-career change-makers, policymakers, researchers, activists, movement-builders…
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‘Feeney Way’ officially unveiled on donor’s 90th birthday
Source: Cornell Chronicle
By Joe Wilensky Today, April 23, 2021, marks both the 90th birthday of Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56 and the official unveiling of Feeney Way on Cornell’s Ithaca campus, honoring the man who has been called the university’s “third founder.” Feeney, the founding chairman of…
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New award honors Feeney for entrepreneurship, generosity
Source: EZRA
By Kathy Hovis Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56, founding chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies and the university’s most generous donor, will be the first recipient of a new Cornell award created in his name to honor successful entrepreneurs who have dedicated their lives to giving…
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