Eric and Wendy Schmidt endow new professorship of Indigenous studies at Princeton

 

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A new professorship of Indigenous studies, endowed by a gift from Wendy Schmidt and Eric Schmidt ‘76 will expand interdisciplinary research and teaching focused on Indigenous communities around the world, build on Princeton’s interdisciplinary strengths and expand its faculty expertise in an area of study that is critically important to the University. #PrincetonForward

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Eric and Wendy Schmidt endow new professorship of Indigenous studies at Princeton

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2個基金會聯繫兩塊土地---傳承農業生技大愛

2007年3月初午后，超過5百位來賓主動齊聚中央研究院，肅穆參加本院楊前副院長祥發院士追思會。溫柔堅強的楊夫人-劉秀薗女士以文稿向來賓致意，並捐贈新台幣1千萬元成立「財團法人楊祥發紀念教育基金會」(The Shang-Fa Yang Memorial Foundation)，傳承楊院士對農業生技與學術的無限大愛。

2007年10月初，這項許諾已然具體雙倍實現！楊夫人同時亦捐贈美國加州大學戴維斯分校(UC-Davis)美金33萬元(約合台幣1千3百萬元)，於2007年10月9日舉行「楊祥發院士夫婦學術交流基金會」(The Shang-Fa and Eleanor Yang Scholarly Exchange Endowment)捐贈典禮，致力於台美雙方學術交流活動。這2個基金會，將楊院士畢生奉獻最多心力的2塊土地，緊密聯繫在一起。

美國加州大學戴維斯分校「楊祥發院士夫婦學術交流基金會」係甄選該校在農業、生物和化學領域的優秀研究人員、博士後、博碩大……

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And Germans support this. 46.6 % of Germans regularly donate to charity, with the majority going to humanitarian aid organisations. Do

 

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Today is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Charities work globally on important issues to make the world a better place. And Germans support this. 46.6 % of Germans regularly donate to charity, with the majority going to humanitarian aid organisations. Do you donate regularly?

#EndPoverty #HelpEachOther

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Chuck Feeney, 89, gives his $8 billion fortune to charity

Chuck Feeney made his money selling luxury duty free goods to travellers - he also set himself a goal to give away his fortune while he was still alive.

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The billionaire who gave it all away

Billionaire fulfills lifelong dream - to die broke: Duty Free Shoppers co-founder Chuck Feeney, 89, gives his $8 billion fortune to charity - and says he is happier than ever (but has kept $2m for himself)

• Former billionaire Charles 'Chuck' Feeney has fulfilled his four-decade mission of giving away his $8billion fortune to charity
• The 89-year-old gained his wealth by creating airport retailer Duty Free Shoppers with Robert Miller in 1960
• On September 14 he dissvolved his foundation Atlantic Philanthropies 
• Through the group he gave $3.7billion to education – including nearly $1billion to his alma mater Cornell and $270million to improve healthcare in Vietnam
• One of his final gifts was a $350million donation for Cornell to build a technology campus on New York City’s Roosevelt Island 
• 'We learned a lot. We would do some things differently, but I am very satisfied. I feel very good about completing this on my watch,' Feeney said 

By MARLENE LENTHANG FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 18:45 BST, 15 September 2020 | UPDATED: 13:21 BST, 16 September 2020

The former billionaire co-founder of airport retail giant Duty Free Shoppers has given away all of his massive wealth and is now broke, but insists he couldn't be happier.

Charles 'Chuck' Feeney, 89, raked in billions with the creation of Duty Free Shoppers with Robert Miller in 1960, but wanted to die without any money.

But the philanthropist was famous for his promise to give all his money away to charitable causes, a dream that was fulfilled this year in September after donating more than $8billion to charities, universities, and foundations through his organization Atlantic Philanthropies.

He gave $3.7billion to education – including nearly $1billion to his alma mater Cornell, more than $870million to human rights and social change including $62million in grants to abolish the death penalty in the US and $76million for grassroots campaigns supporting the passage of Obamacare, according to Forbes.

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Former billionaire Charles 'Chuck' Feeney has fulfilled his four-decade mission of giving away his $8billion fortune to charity. He kept aside $2million for his and his wife's retirement

 Charles 'Chuck' Feeney, 89, raked in billions with the creation of Duty Free Shoppers with Robert Miller in 1960

He also gave more than $700million in gifts to health causes ranging from a $270million grant to improve public healthcare in Vietnam to a $176million gift to the Global Brain Health Institute at the University of California, San Francisco.

One of his final gifts was a $350million donation for Cornell to build a technology campus on New York City’s Roosevelt Island.

Feeney pioneered the idea of Giving While Living, the idea to spend fortunes on big charitable donations during one's lifetime instead of creating a foundation upon death.

'We learned a lot. We would do some things differently, but I am very satisfied. I feel very good about completing this on my watch,' Feeney said to Forbes.

'My thank to all who joined us on this journey. And to those wondering bout Giving While Living: try it, you’ll like it.'

In 2012 Feeney said he set aside $2million for his and his wife’s retirement with plans to donate the rest.

Feeney isn’t one to boast and gave much of his money away anonymously, giving way to the nickname the 'James Bond of Philanthropy'.

Through Atlantic Philanthropies, which he founded in 1984, he’s given to efforts to bring peace to Northern Ireland, modernized Vietnam’s health care system, and focused on expanding education. 

'I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes. Besides, it's a lot more fun to give while you live than give while you're dead,' he said last year.

On September 14, 2020 Feeney completed his four-decade mission and signed the documents to dissolve Atlantic Philanthropies.

Feeney and his wife Helga Feeney celebrated with a ceremony over Zoom with the foundation’s board that included video messages from Bill Gates and former California Governor Jerry Brown.

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'Chuck was a cornerstone in terms of inspiration for the Giving Pledge,' Warren Buffett said. 'He's a model for us all. It's going to take me 12 years after my death to get done what he's doing within his lifetime.' Feeney left and Warren Buffett right

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi also sent an official letter from Congress thanking him for his life’s work.

Atlantic Philanthropies, at the height of its work, had more than 300 employees and 10 global offices working across seven times zones.

The closure date was set years in advance as a part of Feeney’s long-term plan to make high-risk, high-impact donations with a hard deadline.

Today the businessman lives in a modest apartment in San Francisco with a plaque that says 'Congratulations to Chuck Feeney for $8billion of philanthropic giving'.

In fact, it was his generosity that influenced Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in launching the Giving Pledge in 2010 – a campaign for the world’s wealthy to give away at least half their fortunes before death.

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Portrait of Robert Miller, entrepreneur and co-founder of Duty Free Shops above

'Chuck was a cornerstone in terms of inspiration for the Giving Pledge,' Warren Buffett said. 'He's a model for us all. It's going to take me 12 years after my death to get done what he's doing within his lifetime.'

'Chuck created a path for other philanthropists to follow. I remember meeting him before starting the Giving Pledge. He told me we should encourage people not to give just 50 percent but as much as possible during their lifetime. No one is a better example of that than Chuck. Many people talk to me about how he inspired them. It is truly amazing,' Bill Gates said. 

'Chuck took giving to a bigger extreme than anyone. There’s a lot of rich people, very few of them fly coach. He never spent the money on himself and gave everything away. A lot of people are now understanding the importance of giving it away, and the importance of being involved in the things you give your money to,' Sandy Weill, the former Chairman of Weill Cornell Medicine, said.