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Britain’s Big New Philanthrocapitalist

Post author By Philanthrocapitalism
Post date June 27, 2009

British hedge-fund philanthropist Chris Cooper-Hohn and his wife Jamie have just announced another huge gift – of £495m ($812m) – to the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), as Matthew has reported in The Economist. This took the assets of the foundation, which they created in 2003 to receive and give away a slice of the […]

Tags Charity Commission, Children's Investment Fund Foundation, Cooper-Hohn, Felix Salmon, Gates Foundation, Hedge fund, TCI, The Economist

Unlocking the secret

Post author By Philanthrocapitalism
Post date December 28, 2008

A list of Britain’s top 30 donors has just been published in the Independent newspaper, headed by familiar names like Sir Tom Hunter, Chris and Jamie Cooper-Hohn and Lord David Sainsbury. They each are, or plan to be, billion pound philanthropists. But the journey that British philanthropy still needs to travel compared to American philathropy is evident from the […]

Tags british philanthropists, Cooper-Hohn, independent newspaper, Sainsbury, secret millionaire, Tom Hunter