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The Community Foundation for Ireland Announces Winners of Philanthropist of the Year Awards 2016
Source: The Community Foundation for Ireland
Dublin, 21st January 2016: The Community Foundation for Ireland, one of the country’s leading philanthropic organisations, today announced the winners of the eighth annual Philanthropist of the Year awards at a luncheon hosted by Marian Finucane in Dublin. This year’s Philanthropist of the Year Award winners…
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Inspire Ireland Foundation
$2,597,118
Resource type: Grantee
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President of Ireland Joins the Bay Area Council In Honoring Marc Benioff and Chuck Feeney
Source: TMG Partners
Salesforce Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff and Duty Free Shoppers Group Founder Chuck Feeney were the guests of honor at the Bay Area Council’s 70th Anniversary Annual Dinner and 2015 Bay Area Business Hall of Fame gathering on Wednesday, October 28, at The Fairmont Hotel…
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The Foundation Center Elects Two New Board Members: Marcia Smith and Valdemar de Oliveira Neto
Source: The Foundation Center
NEW YORK, May 19 -- The Foundation Center, the nation's leading authority on organized philanthropy, has elected two new trustees to its board: Marcia A. Smith and Valdemar Neto (known as "Maneto"). Ms. Smith is senior vice president at The Atlantic Philanthropies, a global foundation…
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Billionaire advocates giving while living to support Ireland through the recession
Source: Philanthropy UK
By Ben Eyre Publicity shy multi-billion-dollar philanthropist Chuck Feeney has featured in a documentary on Irish television to inspire ‘giving while living’. In ‘Secret Billionaire: The Chuck Feeney Story’, Feeney talked about how he made and then anonymously gave away a multi-billion-dollar fortune, including $1.2…
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Chuck Feeney, Bill Gates' and Warren Buffett’s Hero, Honored by Ireland Fund
Source: Irish Central
By Niall O'Dowd San Francisco: Chuck Feeney whose Atlantic Philanthropies foundation has given away $7.2 billion to worthy causes, many of them Irish, was honored by the American Ireland Fund at an emotional and deeply deserved event in his honor on Friday night. It was…
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Making Ireland One of the Best Places to Grow Old
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Madge Murphy in a class devoted to developing an understanding of aging at Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing. The students participate in the LAMP (Local Asset Mapping Project), which seeks to create a new paradigm for health care by focusing on…
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Monster in the Closet: Winner of Reachout.com's 'Inspire a Generation' Film Competition
Source: ie.reachout.com
This dispatch by grantee ie.reachout.com was originally posted on its website on 9 November 2011 about the winner of its national film competition – Inspire a Generation – which invited aspiring film makers to explore mental health in a sensitive and positive light. Reachout.com works with…
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Ireland's Growing Prosperity Sparks Increasing Philanthropic Efforts
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
By Ian Wilhelm In the last 10 years, the Republic of Ireland has earned the nickname the Celtic Tiger for its rapid economic growth. Today, that tiger is changing its stripes -- a growing number of Irish entrepreneurs are becoming as passionate about donating money…
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Chuck Feeney: Giving It All Away
Source: Independent.ie
Atlantic Philanthropies has this year wound itself up as quietly as it arrived in Ireland more than 30 years ago, after dispensing €1bn on Irish projects. Our reporter profiles Chuck Feeney - the billionaire backer of an extraordinary foundation.
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