Atlantic Philanthropies makes big grant as it nears end of grant giving
Howard Lake | 18 September 2014 | News
As Atlantic Philanthropies winds down its grant giving, the foundation has announced new grants of over £25 million to projects in Northern Ireland.
£25 million will be shared between three areas of work — shared education, dementia care and an early years learning programme. The funding is being matched by £33 million from the Northern Ireland Executive and follows a similar pattern of Atlantic ‘challenge’ grants.
Atlantic Philanthropies is the foundation established by 83-year-old Irish American Chuck Feeney who made his fortune in duty free shopping. Mr Feeney has pledged to give away his entire fortune of £4 billion in his own lifetime with the final grants being made around the end of this year.
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Last month, the foundation gave almost £12 million for dementia care and research in the Republic of Ireland, matched by the government.
The foundation has also recently revealed that it has given over £600,000 to organisations to disseminate and evaluate learning from its programmes in Ireland, north and south.
Clear Thinking Communications has been given two grants of £120,000 to evaluate programmes in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland while the Centre for Effective Services will spend nearly £400,000 on an implementation conference next year.
- Chuck Feeney joins the Giving Pledge (11 March 2011)
- Atlantic Philanthropies records its giving in Ireland (30 July 2015)
- New book captures story of $1.3 billion grant giving in Ireland (19 October 2017)
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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.
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