# Ireland Funds report record breaker

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/08/13/ireland-funds-report-record-breaker/
- Published: 2006-08-13T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The American Ireland Fund 31st Annual New York Dinner Gala held in the Spring is
reporting a record breaking $4.1 million dollars raised for charity in Ireland. 
Some 1300 people attended the dinner which honoured prominent Irish Americans.

The American Ireland Fund has committed $1 million through the Dinner to Sesame
Street to enable them to produce 26 programs for youth in Northern Ireland aimed
at reducing prejudice.

The second initiative will provide for the building and staffing of the very first
American Ireland Fund integrated preschool in Northern Ireland. Only 6% of Catholic
and Protestant children are educated together in Northern Ireland.

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