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Ode to Chuck Feeney Sets the Tone for Gates Foundation
By Thalia Beaty, Associated Press The CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has a message: Hey billionaires, give away more of your money to address inequality and do it soon. Mark Suzman made the call in his annual letter released Thursday that…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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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
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,…
Author: Fortune
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Philanthropist Chuck Feeney’s generosity had ‘a profound impact’ on Ireland, memorial hears
By Sorcha Pollak Chuck Feeney was a tenacious, empathetic and inexhaustible man with an impatience for self-importance and a fundamental drive to invest in people’s talents, a memorial to the late Irish-American billionaire philanthropist has heard. Dozens of Mr Feeney’s family members gathered in Dublin’s Trinity…
Author: The Irish Times
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Chuck Feeney left the world ‘better than he found it’, mourners at his funeral ceremony told
Patrick Feeney carries the ashes of his father, Chuck Feeney, at the funeral in Glasnevin Cemetery. Photograph: Naoise Culhane By Paul Cullen Chuck Feeney left the world better than he found it through his “incredible” compassion for the less fortunate, a funeral for the billionaire philanthropist…
Author: The Irish Times
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Chuck Feeney played "pivotal role" in Northern Irish peace process, Gerry Adams says
Gerry Adams, the former President of Sinn Féin, has paid tribute to Chuck Feeney, the Irish American philanthropist who died on Monday, October 9 at the age of 92. “I am deeply saddened at the news of the death of my good friend Chuck Feeney,”…
Author: IrishCentral
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Former Billionaire Chuck Feeney, Philanthropist Who Pioneered Giving While Living, Has Died At Age 92
Charles “Chuck” Feeney David Cantwell © Provided by Forbes Charles “Chuck” Feeney, who cofounded retailer Duty Free Shoppers, became a billionaire and donated much of his fortune anonymously—leading Forbes to dub him the James Bond of philanthropy—has died at age 92, according to his charitable…
Author: Forbes
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Philanthropy Roundtable Pays Tribute to Charles (Chuck) Feeney
Joanne Florino The notion of spending much of one’s fortune while living is a concept briskly taking hold in philanthropic circles around the globe. Giving away money fast—to do good right now—is an idea championed by some of the most high-impact, high-net-worth donors of the…
Author: Philanthropy Roundtable
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Chuck Feeney, Cornell’s ‘third founder,’ dies at 92
Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56, founding chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies and Cornell University’s most generous donor, died Oct. 9 in San Francisco. He was 92. Feeney, who quietly devoted his fortune to worldwide causes for decades, invested nearly $1 billion in Cornell through the…
Author: Cornell Chronicle
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Philanthropist Chuck Feeney dies aged 92
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…
Author: RTE
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Chuck Feeney: Entrepreneur and philanthropist dies
The Irish-American entrepreneur and philanthropist Chuck Feeney has died at the age of 92. Mr Feeney, through his private foundation the Atlantic Philanthropies, donated more than $8bn (£6.5bn) to causes on five continents. The foundation gave $570m (£465m) to causes in Northern Ireland over four decades.…
Author: BBC