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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…

By Conor O'CleryEditor's note: Conor O’Clery is the author of the biography of Chuck Feeney, “The Billionaire Who Wasn’t.” Chuck Feeney  DUBLIN, Ireland — Chuck Feeney, one of the world's major philanthropists, has some reservations about The Giving Pledge, an effort by Warren Buffett and Bill and…

By Arthur Beesley John Healy seems more like a university professor than a man who has been in command of a Bermuda-based financial colossus with assets in excess of $4 billion (€3.12 billion). What is more, he is charged with giving all that money away…

The Atlantic Philanthropies is giving $177 million to Trinity College Dublin and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to establish the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), a groundbreaking initiative that aims to tackle the looming dementia epidemic and improve health and dementia care worldwide. This…

Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, delivered this speech at an international conference held by the Robert Bosch Stiftung in Berlin: The Era of Citizens – How Civil Society and Foundations are Shaping the Future. The conference was opened by German…

Rendering of a portion of the future Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, showing the campus lawn, the first academic building (left) and the co-location buidling. Rendering: Luke Yoo/Morphosis By Emily Sanders Hopkins He is Cornell University's biggest donor. Chuck Feeney '56. Image: Fennell Photography…

In a recent Irish Times article, Conor O'Clery tells the story of how, in the late 1990s, Atlantic struck a deal with the Irish Government to jointly invest in post-graduate research. Back then, Atlantic Founding Chairman Chuck Feeney envisioned a quantum leap to help create a knowledge economy…

By Suzanne Lynch.  AFTER TAKING a break in 2009, the Rehab Great Investment Race is back again this year. The fundraising campaign, which launched in 2001, is an innovative way for those in the investment fund industry to do their bit for charity. Five Irish…

By Tom Watson.  The pledge by Warren Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates, and other billionaires to give away large parts of their fortunes leaves a question: Where will the money go?There's a new solicitor general in this country and his name is Warren Buffett. Who…

Tributes to billionaire who's giving away bis fortune THE MUSEUM of Natural History in New York was a splendid setting for an extraordinary event on Tuesday night as more than 1,000 people paid tribute to one of the most remarkable human beings on the planet.…