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Reclaiming the Moral Life of Philanthropy
Source: Gara LaMarche
This column is adapted from Gara LaMarche's address with this title given recently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1965, Bill Moyers, then a young White House aide, talked with President Lyndon Johnson about a pending bill to provide retroactive Social Security payments. …
Resource type: News
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The Road Ahead for Progressives: Back to Basics
Source: The Nation
by Gara LaMarche and Deepak BhargavaTwenty-one months after Barack Obama was inaugurated on a wave of hope for change in America's politics and policies, at least two important and seemingly contradictory things can be said.First, there has been a series of significant progressive reforms: an economic stimulus bill…
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The Local Impact of Global Philanthropy
Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, participated on a panel of The Settlement Summit: Inclusion, Innovation, Impact. He shared his thoughts and six suggestions on the responsibility of American foundations when working abroad, which are also applicable to grantmaking in other places…
Resource type: Speech
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Change Comes to Washington: Will it Come to Philanthropy, Too?
Philanthropy should step up and seize the unprecedented opportunities created by the election of President Obama, said Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, in this speech at the Annual Meeting of Southern California Grantmakers in Los Angeles. When the terrific Sushma Raman –…
Resource type: Speech
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Taking Account of Race as a Philanthropic Imperative
Foundations must take account of race in all of their work in order to get beyond racism, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies President and CEO, in this speech at the Waldemar Nielsen Issue Forums in Philanthropy, Georgetown Public Policy Institute in Washington. You might…
Resource type: Speech
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Talent in Philanthropy
Newspaper reporters, baseball pitching scouts, art dealers and movie studio casting agents all provide models for philanthropy to follow in finding and cultivating talented programme officers, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech to the Foundation Impact Research Group, Terry…
Resource type: Speech
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John R. Healy, CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, to Step Down in September 2007
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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…
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Feeney ’56 honored for ‘transformative’ contributions to Cornell
Source: Cornell Chronicle
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1140"] Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56, left, with his wife, Helga, in the back right; and President Martha E. Pollack, right, during a virtual presentation of the inaugural Charles F. Feeney ’56 Lifetime Achievement Award for Entrepreneurship and Humanity on April 30.…
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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: Cornell Chronicle
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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