Some people want to be rich while billionaire Chuck Feeney wants to die broke. Over the last 30 years he gave away a $7.5 billion from hawking cognac, perfume and cigarettes in his empire of duty-free shops. His foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies, has funneled $6.2 billion into education, science, health care, aging and civil rights in the U.S., Australia, Vietnam, Bermuda, South Africa and Ireland. Few living people have given away more, and no one at his wealth level has ever given their fortune away so completely during their lifetime. The remaining $1.3 billion will be spent by 2016, and the foundation will be shuttered in 2020
Posted on: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 04:11:01 +0000
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