# Developer makes $1 million donation

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/07/29/developer-makes-1-million-donation/
- Published: 2007-07-29T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Irish property developer Garrett Kelleher has made a donation of $1m (‚€729,000)
to the US-Ireland Alliance that will go towards an endowment to fund the Mitchell
Scholarship Programme. The donation will be matched by the Irish Government.

The programme funds post-graduate scholars in the US to undertake study in Ireland
and currently funds around 12 students a year. It was started in 2000 and is named
after US Senator George Mitchell.

The US-Ireland Alliance, which seeks to foster relations between Ireland and the
United States and the Irish Government will match whatever the Alliance raises, 
up to ‚€20 million over the next five years, to endow its George J. Mitchell Scholarship
program.

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Alliance president Trina Vargo said that the Alliance seeks to raise ‚€40 million
to ensure that the Mitchell Scholarship program is permanently funded, like the 
Rhodes Scholarship program, which sends future leaders to Oxford for study. The 
Mitchell Scholarship program was established in 1998 and has already sent more than
80 future American leaders to pursue graduate level study at universities throughout
Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Earlier in the year the Alliance raised nearly $5 million at couple of fundraising
dinners in Dublin.

Million dollar commitments, to be paid over the next five years, have come from 
Pat and Teresa Mooney and Bernard and Moira McNamara.

The Mitchell Scholarship program is funded annually by the US Department of State
and the US Congress, the Northern Ireland Department for Employment and Learning,
BD (Becton Dickinson & Company), Bombardier Aerospace (NI) Foundation, Cross Atlantic
Capital Partners, the McDonnell Charitable Foundation, every university on the island
of Ireland, and many others.

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