At The Community Foundation for Ireland, we are increasingly seeing the growing influence of a younger generation in the area of philanthropy. This growing influence is being demonstrated in two key ways: Firstly, younger people who do well in their business lives are engaging in philanthropy at an earlier stage and in very different ways […]

CFI is one of Ireland’s largest philanthropic organisations It has published its 2016 Annual Report showcasing almost €6million awarded in grants to good causes in 2016 Particular priorities for Irish philanthropists in 2016 included homelessness, education and health. The Community Foundation for Ireland (CFI) has announced that it awarded over €5.7 million in grants to […]

As part of the Leadership for Ethnic Minorities grant round that took place earlier this year, the Migrants Rights Centre Ireland were awarded a grant of €7,500 for the Justice for the Undocumented campaign. For seven years, the Justice for the Undocumented campaign (JFU) has been organising and campaigning for change with undocumented migrants and […]

Between February-April 2017 we opened the Social Change grants under three categories; Leadership for Ethnic Minorities, LGBT+ Migrants and The Older Persons’ Fund Round 5. Through the Social Change grants, we gave out a total of €224,250  to 37 organisations spread right across Ireland. See below for the full list of grantee organisations and the […]

An anonymous donor awarded a grant for STEM outreach workshops to take place in Mountrath throughout 2017. The project was provided by local development company Midlands Science. Midlands Science is working to progress economic development and education attainment in the Midlands of Ireland. Since 2008, the company has focused on a work programme dealing with STEM education (Science, Technology, […]