# Ireland Funds raise target to $200 million

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/10/06/ireland-funds-raise-target-200-million/
- Published: 2013-10-06T23:02:47+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Worldwide Ireland Funds has announced that it is doubling the original target
for its Promising Ireland Campaign from $100 million to $200 million. Just four 
months ago the Ireland Funds said it was increasing its target to $150 million.

The Campaign, which was due to close at the end of this year, has raised $150 million
already and will be extended to the end of 2015 to reach this new goal.  The new
target will require the Funds to raise on average $2 million a month, twice its 
current level.

Over the last five years the Ireland Funds have supported over 350 charities and
not for profit organizations across the island of Ireland, North and South, and 
Irish causes abroad.  All of the monies raised have come from private philanthropists
and organizations across the twelve countries in which the Funds have a presence.

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Commenting, CEO of The Worldwide Ireland Funds Kieran McLoughlin said: “We are inundated
by an unprecedented level of demand from Irish charities struggling to meet the 
demand upon them.  We are looking at a series of initiatives, in addition to our
fundraising, through which we can support the sector.”

The [Worldwide Ireland Funds](http://www.theirelandfunds.org) are an international
philanthropic network operating in 12 countries that has raised over $450 million
since 1976  for charities in Ireland and Irish causes around the world.

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