Results List
-
Below the Radar
$3,339,506
Resource type: Grantee
-
The Detail to provide local news boost for Northern Ireland
Source: The Guardian
Jeremy Hunt's push for new local TV and online services received a boost today, with the announcement that Bob Geldof's media company Ten Alps is launching The Detail, a Belfast-based news and current affairs website. The Detail will launch in January and is backed by…
Resource type: News
-
Ten Alps launches The Detail in Northern Ireland
Source: How Do
Factual media operation Ten Alps has today launched The Detail - an investigative journalism portal for Northern Ireland that the firm hopes will showcase a new model for the provision of local news and current affairs reporting. Ten Alps, which is headquartered in Cheshire, is…
Resource type: News
-
From Social Movement to Social Change: Philanthropy and School Discipline Reform
Source: Inside Philanthropy
By David Callahan What role does philanthropy play in social movements? It’s an interesting question, and there’s a long history of funder involvement in different movements—from civil rights in the 1960s to LGBT rights in the past decade. Just last week, I wrote about the role of…
Resource type: News
-
“Deliberate Deployment” or Perpetuity? Questions to Inform Timing Strategies for Philanthropy
Source: Nonprofit Quarterly
Perhaps “deliberate deployment” should replace “spending down” in the philanthropic glossary.
Resource type: News
-
Six billion dollar man
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Original Source and Video Broadcast: 30/07/2009 Reporter: Kerry O'Brien Quietly spoken American billionaire Chuck Feeney has flown under the public radar for most of his long and very successful life. Over decades he built an international empire of duty free stores, but in the eighties,…
Resource type: News
-
The Irish-American Billionaire Who Gave Away His Fortune
Source: The Irish Times
Chuck Feeney, ‘the anti-Trump’, has written his final Atlantic Philanthropies cheque.
Resource type: News
-
Philanthropy's Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline
Source: American Educator
By Kavitha Mediratta Last year, at the beginning of ninth grade, my son's friend Emmanuel was suspended from school for bringing a brick to class. Emmanuel had found the brick in the schoolyard, and with the satirical wit of a 14-year-old, named it "Softie" and…
Resource type: News
-
The ‘Giving While Living’ Superhero
Source: Outlook Business
Chuck Feeney is the biggest philanthropist people know nothing about. The reclusive former billionaire not only decided to give away all his wealth in his own lifetime, but also leads a life of disarming simplicity. By N Mahalakshmi Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do…
Resource type: News
-
Warren Buffett Honors His Hero, the Billionaire Who Secretly Gave It All Away
Source: Forbes
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates share a common hero, the under-the-radar philanthropist Chuck Feeney. By Dan AlexanderWarren Buffett and Bill Gates are the two most iconic philanthropists in the world, having given away tens of billions to much fanfare. But their role model is Chuck…
Resource type: News
