# Chuck Feeney joins the Giving Pledge

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/03/11/chuck-feeney-joins-giving-pledge/
- Published: 2011-03-11T08:45:50+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**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](https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/11/02/feeney-has-reservations-about-giving-pledge/).

Since 1982 [Atlantic Philanthropies](http://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org) 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.”

 * **[Ireland received €56 million from Atlantic Philanthropies in grants in 2011](https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/03/08/ireland-received-56m-atlantic-philanthropies-grants-2011/)(
   8 March 2013)**