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Atlantic Philanthropies makes big grant as it nears end of grant giving

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.

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