# Atlantic provides over $11 million in Ireland

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/08/16/atlantic-provides-over-11-million-ireland/
- Published: 2013-08-16T09:10:02+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Atlantic Philanthropies has released details of its latest round of grants to Irish
organisations which totalled over $11.5 million (£7.5 million) so far in 2013.

The biggest grant, $3.5 million, was given to the Northern Ireland Hospice, one 
of the largest grants ever provided to an organisation in Northern Ireland. The 
Hospice, which is involved in a major capital fundraising campaign, was given a 
grant ‘to enable people with dementia to experience the end stages of life with 
dignity and free from pain by providing best-practice dementia palliative care in
hospices and the community’.

The Irish Hospice Foundation in the Republic of Ireland was also well supported 
with a grant of $1.9 million.

Philanthropy Ireland, which was set up to promote philanthropy in the Republic of
Ireland, was given $970,000 for the National Giving Campaign. With the exception
of the Northern Ireland Hospice, nearly all the grantees in this round have received
funding from Atlantic Philanthropies before.

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The National Children’s Bureau, which received over $1 million in this round, had
previously received nearly $2 million in grants.

The Association of Charitable Trusts in Northern Ireland received $23,000 from Atlantic
Philanthropies "to strengthen the involvement of UK Trusts and Foundations in Northern
Ireland by developing issue based networks and events between funders, NGOs, thought
leaders and those connected to influencing policy and practice".

[Atlantic Philanthropies](http://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org) describes itself
as a "limited life foundation".  It plans to complete active grantmaking by 2016
and close its doors by 2020.

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