Friday, January 6, 2017
Atlantic Philanthropies' Charles Feeney Gives Away the Last of His Fortune
As it happens, Donald J. Trump is not the only person to announce plans to shut down a personal philanthropy, just the best known.
This is the story of a man who made and kept that same promise.
Nearly five years ago, Charles F. Feeney sat in a cushy armchair in an apartment on the east side of Manhattan, grandchildren’s artwork taped to the walls, and said that by the end of 2016, he was going to hand out the last of a great fortune that he had made...