Results List
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Limerick Community Based Educational Initiative
$214,300
Resource type: Grantee
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University of Limerick Foundation
$181,483,823
Resource type: Grantee
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Buildings, Bridges and Big Bets
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
Chuck Feeney, with Cornell University President Frank Rhodes and Ed Walsh, Limerick president, at Plassey House in 1988. From Elizabeth, N.J., where our founder, Chuck Feeney was born and raised, you can follow the Elizabeth River into New York Bay, all the way across the…
Resource type: News
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The Billionaire Who Wasn’t
Source: Gara LaMarche
Today in New York, the worlds of publishing and philanthropy mark an unusual event:the launch of a biography of Atlantic’s founder, Charles F. Feeney. It’s unusual because Chuck Feeney has spent his whole life avoiding the spotlight, even going to the lengths of originally setting…
Resource type: News
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Irish Universities Look to Graduates for Funds as Atlantic Goes West
Source: The Irish Times
Philanthropist Charles F. "Chuck" Feeney being conferred an Honorary Degree jointly by the Universities of Ireland North and South at a ceremony in Dublin Castle. Photograph: Alan Betson / THE IRISH TIMESBy Louise HoldenLast year University of Limerick expressed its gratitude to the billionaire philanthropist…
Resource type: News
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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
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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.
Resource type: News
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Criticism of conditions in asylum hostels
Source: Irish Examiner
By Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent. An organisation which works with asylum seekers in Limerick has hit out at the living conditions in hostels. Doras Lumni, set up 10 years ago, provides a wide range of services, including English language classes to up to 700 asylum seekers,…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic Celebrates the Life and Music of Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
[atlpvideo src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ofe6nqFphgk" height="388" width="560"]In this 2011 video, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and students at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance reflect on the Academy, music and their relationship with Atlantic's founder Chuck Feeney.[/atlpvideo] We share this video in celebration of the life of Irish…
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Celebrating Irishness: Charles ‘Chuck’ Feeney
Source: The Silver Voice
Charles Feeney was born to a working class family in New Jersey, USA in the early 1930′s. His father’s mother hailed from near Kinawley, in Co Fermanagh, from where she emigrated to the USA.In the 1960′s he co-founded Duty Free Shoppers, which sold luxury goods…
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