Results List
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Final Grant From Atlantic Supports The Cornell Tradition
Source: Cornell Chronicle
By Diane Lebo Wallace [caption id="attachment_79432" align="alignright" width="460"] The Cornell Tradition awards 500 fellowships each year to Cornell students who demonstrate significant work experience, a commitment to campus and/or community service, and academic achievement. Photo: Lindsay France/University Photography[/caption] The Atlantic Philanthropies, the foundation established by entrepreneur…
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C.S. Mott Foundation Partnership with Atlantic Philanthropies Gives South Africa’s Community Advice Offices Long-Term Support
Source: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
FLINT, Mich. — Supporting the ongoing efforts of the community advice offices that assist underserved South Africans is the focus of a new partnership between the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies that is expected to result in up to $1,936,080 in grants over three…
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Interview - Christopher Oechsli
Source: Alliance magazine
The Atlantic Philanthropies is coming to the end of its life as a grantmaking foundation. It is due to complete its grantmaking by 2016 and close its doors by 2020 – the largest foundation ever to spend out. Caroline Hartnell talked to Atlantic president and…
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Universities honour philanthropist Chuck Feeney
Source: RTE News Ireland
A conferring ceremony is under way in Dublin Castle this afternoon to honour the Founder of Atlantic Philanthropies Chuck Feeney.Universities from across the island of Ireland are jointly conferring him with an Honorary Doctorate of Laws. It is the first time ever that all of…
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Support Cornell University’s Applied Sciences NYC Initiative Through Significant Grant
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
The Atlantic Philanthropies are pleased to announce a grant totaling $350 million to Cornell University to support the Cornell University/Technion-Israel Institute of Technology’s consortium for the Applied Sciences NYC initiative. The consortium’s ground-breaking partnership with the City of New York seeks to build what will…
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The Great Give Away
Source: Sunday Times
When you have as much money as Bill Gates, you have to work damn hard to get rid of it. At least if you want to disposeof it wisely. So in May the Microsoft founder, whose fortune is estimated at $53 billion (¤40 billion), was…
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“A Day in the Life” A national cross-disability and mental health public event
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
There was over-whelming support for the national cross-disability and mental health public event “A Day in the Life”, which took place in Dublin city centre on Monday 19th April 2010. It is the first time that 16 key organisations from across the disability and mental…
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Investment in South Africa From Inside and Out: Reflections of an Overseas Friend
The Atlantic Philanthropies’ approach to investment in South Africa and the country’s challenges in the face of declining international funding are discussed in this speech by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Inyathelo Annual Awards Ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa. It is…
Resource type: Speech
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Secret Billionaire -- The Chuck Feeney Story
Source: Irish Independent
Airing Tuesday, RTE1, 10.10pmBy Paul Whitington In these days of rampant cynicism and endless exposés of rapacious businessmen and dodgy bankers, the story of Chuck Feeney is enough to renew your faith in human nature. An Irish-American born in New Jersey during the Great Depression,…
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As 2009 Nears, Stresses Vie with Opportunities for Atlantic and its Grantees
Source: Gara LaMarche
As 2008 draws to a close, organisations, just like individuals, should take a moment to reflect on the challenges and accomplishments of the year that is ending, and prepare for the one ahead. I’d like to do that, in this final column of an eventful…
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