The common mans billionaire. Used it all to help the world.
The man who could have tried it sometime but helped others instead. RIP.
A great guy. But I’ve always wondered, why did he specifically do so much for Limerick of all the worthy causes in the world?
They fairly cleaned him!
It is not well known that Chuck sprinkled considerable funds across early childhood resourcing in Ireland over a decade, without which the provision of preschool schooling wouldn’t look anything like today’s.
Prior to his funding only the children of the wealthy went to preschool, which conferred very considerable lifelong advantages to them over everybody else.
Chuck decided to make preschool education available to as many Irish children as possible, and quietly funded what became the national effort to make it so. Ireland leapt from a tiny percentage of its children attending preschool, to over 90% thanks in no small part to his vision and ambition, and clever targeting of funding where it was needed.
By some measures, Ireland is now one of the best places to be a child in the world, where it had been one of the worst in the west not all that long ago. I doubt that would be the case if it hadn’t been for Chuck. RIP.
He was a great individual.
Thanks Chuck, he funded the University that gave me my degree and so much more without asking for anything in return. RIP
I got a scholarship to do medicine in UL for being from a disadvantaged background. I contacted Atlantic Philanthropies to express my gratitude. I said that I doubted it would reach Chuck Feeney’s ears but it wouldn’t feel right unless I said thanks. He got back to me to say his ‘ears had been reached’ and he was happy to help.
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The common mans billionaire. Used it all to help the world.
The man who could have tried it sometime but helped others instead. RIP.
A great guy. But I’ve always wondered, why did he specifically do so much for Limerick of all the worthy causes in the world?
They fairly cleaned him!
It is not well known that Chuck sprinkled considerable funds across early childhood resourcing in Ireland over a decade, without which the provision of preschool schooling wouldn’t look anything like today’s.
Prior to his funding only the children of the wealthy went to preschool, which conferred very considerable lifelong advantages to them over everybody else.
Chuck decided to make preschool education available to as many Irish children as possible, and quietly funded what became the national effort to make it so. Ireland leapt from a tiny percentage of its children attending preschool, to over 90% thanks in no small part to his vision and ambition, and clever targeting of funding where it was needed.
By some measures, Ireland is now one of the best places to be a child in the world, where it had been one of the worst in the west not all that long ago. I doubt that would be the case if it hadn’t been for Chuck. RIP.
He was a great individual.
Thanks Chuck, he funded the University that gave me my degree and so much more without asking for anything in return. RIP
I got a scholarship to do medicine in UL for being from a disadvantaged background. I contacted Atlantic Philanthropies to express my gratitude. I said that I doubted it would reach Chuck Feeney’s ears but it wouldn’t feel right unless I said thanks. He got back to me to say his ‘ears had been reached’ and he was happy to help.
A true legend of a man.
RIP Chuck