Results List
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Zanele Figlan reflects on the recent unrest in South Africa
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…
Author: Atlantic Fellows
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Limited Life, Unlimited Impact
Atlantic Fellows at the Atlantic Institute. September 14, 2021 Dear Friends, One year ago today, Chuck Feeney signed the documents to dissolve the 38-year-old Atlantic Foundation that he founded to distribute his entire business fortune to improve the lives of others. In December 2020, the…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Atlantic Fellows Poised As Transformational Future World Leaders Ensuring Social, Economic Equity
By Jackie Abramian 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 Once a year, mid-career change-makers, policymakers, researchers, activists, movement-builders and social impact champions…
Author: Forbes
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Feeney ’56 honored for ‘transformative’ contributions to Cornell
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. (Lindsay France/Cornell University) By…
Author: Cornell Chronicle
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What’s happening in Northern Ireland and what can be done about it?
In this blog, Martin O’Brien, Director of the Social Change Initiative (SCI), analyses the recent incidents in Northern Ireland and explores what politicians and philanthropy can do to remediate the situation. Two years ago, we were delighted to welcome Ariadne members to Belfast for the…
Author: Ariadne
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‘Feeney Way’ officially unveiled on donor’s 90th birthday
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…
Author: Cornell Chronicle
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Why Mackenzie Scott’s $6 Billion Rapid-Fire Donations Could Change Charitable Giving
By Lucy Alexander As the pandemic and its restrictions strangled businesses large and small, an estimated 8 million more Americans fell into poverty from June to November last year, increasing the rate to almost 12 percent, or 22 percent for those without a college education.…
Author: Robb Report
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New award honors Feeney for entrepreneurship, generosity
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…
Author: Cornell Chronicle
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New award honors Feeney for entrepreneurship, generosity
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…
Author: EZRA
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Supporting Legal Action
Laws provide the skeletal frame of a social order but while laws in theory and by tradition serve the cause of justice, they can easily be, and often are, used to reinforce a repressive regime. Here James A. Goldston and Martin O’Brien reflect on the…
Author: Alliance Magazine
