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The Atlantic Philanthropies - Island of Ireland - Publications
- DOI
- 10.7486/DRI.2r377k43c-1
- Title
- The Atlantic Philanthropies - Island of Ireland - Publications
- Description
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The Atlantic Philanthropies were founded by entrepreneur Charles F. (“Chuck”) Feeney (1931-), who decided to devote his wealth to the service of humanity in 1982. A champion of ‘’Giving While Living’’, Feeney has long maintained that people of wealth should use it to better the world during their lifetimes. Over 35 years, Atlantic disbursed more than $8 billion to support promising programs and people to advance opportunity and promote equity. Because of The Atlantic Philanthropies’ believe that it is imperative to address deeply rooted problems sooner than later, many of their grants were so called “big bets” designed to produce lasting results. The organization has been working in Australia, Bermuda, Cuba, Northern Ireland and Ireland, South Africa, the United States and Vietnam. It made its final grant commitments in 2016 and will close in 2020.
Over a period of 30 years, The Atlantic Philanthropies invested €1.6 billion in the island of Ireland to advance higher education, human rights, further the peace process in the North, and improve services and policies for young people and older adults. The impact of Atlantic’s investments in Ireland has been described as vast and at times transformational.
The collection The Atlantic Philanthropies-Island of Ireland-Publications includes reports commissioned by The Atlantic Philanthropies on the topic of particular issues or countries that have benefited from the organisation’s grant making.
Curatorial the collection is developed using a thematic approach. Main themes include human rights, education and communities. Sub-themes include LGBTQ people, migrants, disability, reconciliation, infrastructure, knowledge and learning, knowledge application, senior citizens, children and youth and citizen participation. In addition to publications, grant documentation, and oral histories are were created by Digital Repository of Ireland as part The Atlantic Philanthropies Archive Project (2017-2020) titled Amplifying change: a history of The Atlantic Philanthropies on the island of Ireland.
This collection can also be discovered at the web-site https://dri.ie/atlanticphilanthropies/spotlight/amplifying-change.
- Creators
- The Atlantic Philanthropies, 1982-2020
- Curator
- Digital Repository of Ireland, 2015-
- Depositor
- Cornell University Library,1865-
- Creation Date
- 2017
- Published by Digital Repository of Ireland
- 09/03/2020
- Subjects
- Curated collection--Human rightsCurated collection--CommunitiesCurated collection--EducationCurated collection--LGBTQ peopleCurated collection--DisabilityCurated collection--ReconciliationCurated collection--MigrantsCurated collection--InfrastructureCurated collection--Knowledge applicationCurated collection--Knowledge and learningCurated collection--Children--YouthCurated collection--Senior citizenCurated collection--Citizen participationAtlantic Philanthropies (Organization)
- Subjects (Places)
- Republic of IrelandNorthern Ireland
- Subjects (Temporal)
- 1982-2018
- Types
- Collection
- Language
- English
- Rights
- The material is copyright of either Cornell University, The Atlantic Philanthropies, or where listed, the original authors or commissioning bodies. This collection is being made available under CC BY-NC-ND license, which allows users to access the material as long as the original copyright holder is credited; the material cannot be changed in any way or used commercially.
- Reuse Licence
- Please see individual objects for licensing information
- Metadata Statement
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All metadata in the Repository is licensed CC0 unless otherwise indicated. For the reuse of digital assets please see Reuse Licence of individual objects.
- Depositing Organisation
- Cornell University Library
