Chuck Feeney joins the Giving Pledge
Howard Lake | 11 March 2011 | News
Atlantic Philanthropies founding Chairman Charles “Chuck” Feeney has became the 59th person to sign the Giving Pledge. This is the initiative of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffet to invite the wealthiest individuals and families in America to undertake to give the majority of their wealth to charity.
Feeney had previously declined to take the Pledge.
Since 1982 Atlantic Philanthropies has made over $5.5 billion in charitable grants in Ireland.
Feeney has written to Bill and Melinda Gates saying that he had been “heartened by the great response” to the Giving Pledge, and that he would now “publicly add my enthusiastic support for this effort and celebrate this great accomplishment”.
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The letter, published on the grantmaker’s website, adds: “As I indicated at our recent meeting, I don’t pretend to have the answers to the many challenges facing those who choose to contribute their wealth to philanthropic activities. But I do have almost 30 years of personal and institutional experience engaging with the wide range of philanthropic issues and choices, and I would like to contribute this experience to the Giving Pledge effort.”
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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.