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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,…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic Mourns the Loss of Frank H.T. Rhodes, President Emeritus of Cornell University
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="614"] Frank H.T. Rhodes on his inauguration day, November 1977. Cornell University File Photo[/caption] We mourn the loss of Frank H.T. Rhodes, who passed away Monday, February 3rd, at the age of 93. A long time champion of higher education and…
Resource type: News
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"We're not telling people what to do. We just want to show what's possible."
Source: Philanthropy Australia
President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, Christopher G. Oechsli, takes a deep dive into lessons learned while executing the $8 billion philanthropic vision of entrepreneur Chuck Feeney, aka the ‘James Bond of Philanthropy’. By Nicole Richards The Atlantic Philanthropies believes in making big bets…
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The Atlantic Philanthropies: Republic of Ireland
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
This book tells the story of The Atlantic Philanthropies’ 30 years of grantmaking in the Republic of Ireland — investments totaling $1.3 billion to help breathe life into university research, support major advances in human rights, and underwrite joint efforts with government to improve services…
Resource type: Research Report
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The Cornell Tradition
Source: Flatbush Pictures
In 1982, Atlantic's first-ever grant started the The Cornell Tradition fellowship, which has since supported 5,500 of Cornell University's most service-oriented undergraduates. We recently gave the program our very last grant, too. Our Work in the United States: A Film Series The Cornell Tradition is one in a series…
Resource type: Video
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Makes New Grants to Cornell
Source: Cornell University
By Jose Beduya The Atlantic Philanthropies, created by Charles F. Feeney ’56, made its very first grant in 1982 to Cornell University. By the end of this year, the foundation will conclude its grant-making, realizing the full impact of the foundation’s largesse within its founder’s…
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A Conversation with Atlantic's CEO Christopher Oechsli
Source: Cornell University
Join Cornell University President Emeritus Frank H. T. Rhodes for a conversation with Christopher Oechsli, CEO and president of The Atlantic Philanthropies, the foundation created by Chuck Feeney who graduated from Cornell in 1956. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have called Feeney their role model—and…
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Scanning the Skyline: Lessons From 30 Years of Capital Grantmaking
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
Buildings have a special allure for philanthropy—their mass, their unambiguous reality, their durability, their promise of sheltering great transformative enterprise—that few other achievements can match. They also conjure a cloud of distinctive risks: the possibility of inadequate maintenance, financial drain, premature obsolescence, the danger that…
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The Smart State: How Bioscience Revitalized Queensland, Australia
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Photo: Alicia Rawlings, PhD student and research assistant, fits a geodesic sensor net on the head of a patient. The electrodes in the sensor nets are used to pick up brainwaves just below the scalp.[/caption] “Before Atlantic came with this investment…
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Globetrotting and Goal Setting: Where Will Atlantic Wind Up?
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
I have been on the road for most of the last four months, more so than in the prior three years I have been leading The Atlantic Philanthropies. In order to take in what Atlantic has done in its three decades-plus of grantmaking, I traveled…
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