thank you

The generosity of our donors has changed thousands of lives across the island of and around the world. The Ireland Funds has never wavered in its commitment and core mission: to deliver private philanthropic support to worthy causes that promote peace and reconciliation, arts and culture, education and community development. On behalf of the organizations doing extraordinary work, we thank you.

connect 2018 • 6 “When we made our funding application for support from The Ireland Funds we were clear in our focus. By supporting the very best charities committed to transparency accountability and delivering impact we would help drive this sector forward. And that has been our strategy ever since. Without the support of The Ireland Funds, this road

map would not have been possible.” — LUCY MASTERSON, CEO, CHARITIES INSTITUTE IRELAND

"With support from The Ireland Funds, our Parent Child Home Program (PCHP), an innovative, home based literacy and parenting program, has helped hundreds of parents to develop the confidence and skills to support their children’s language, literacy and

numeracy development." — DR. JOSEPHINE BLEACH, DIRECTOR, EARLY LEARNING INITIATIVE AT THE NATIONAL COLLEGE OF IRELAND

“As CEO of CMRF Crumlin I would like to extend thanks to The Ireland Funds, and our supporters. Thank you for sharing our vision that every sick child deserves every chance, and for making an impact for children’s health today, tomorrow and forever.”

— LISA-NICOLE DUNNE, CEO OF CMRF CRUMLIN

connect 2018 • 7 Below is a sample of the outstanding organizations your generosity has assisted.

174 Trust Business to Arts Cuan Mhuire Friends of St Lukes Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind 1st Port of Sea Scouts The Butler Gallery Cuisle Cancer Support Centre Friends of the Cancer Centre Irish Horse Welfare Trust Abbey School Cahoots NI CyberSafeIreland Friends of the Derry Walls Irish Hospice Foundation The Camara Ireland CyberSmarties Front Line Irish Immigration Center Ablevision Ireland Camcor Community & Cystic Fibrosis Ireland Funky Fish Youth Café of ACET (AIDS Care Education Recreation Centre Daisyhouse Future Voices Ireland Irish Immigration Pastoral Center & Training) Ireland Cancer Fund for Children Damask Community Outreach Gaelic Players Association Irish International Immigrant Center Acquired Brain Injury Ireland Cancer Support Sanctuary LARCC Dance Ireland Gaelscoil Longfoirt Irish Martial Arts Academy Adare Recreation & Cappagh Hospital Trust Dance Research Forum Ireland Gaelscoil na gCeithre Máistrí Irish Men's Sheds Association Community Complex Captain Francis O'Neill Memorial Dance Theatre of Ireland Gaisce - The President's Award Irish Museum of Modern Art Age Action Ireland Cara-Friend Daniel O'Connell Memorial Autism Partnership Irish Pages Age Concern Causeway Care After Prison Church Restoration Galway Community Circus Irish Pastoral Center Age Concern Network Carrickfergus YMCA Darndale Belcamp Integrated Galway GAA Irish Red Cross Aisling Irish Community Center Castlerea Community Arts Group Childcare Service Galway Hospice Foundation Irish Repertory Theatre Aisling Return to Ireland Project Ceiliúradh DCU Educational Trust Galway Rape Crisis Centre Irish Society for the Prevention Alcohol Forum ChangeX DCU Ryan Academy Galway University Foundation of Cruelty to Children Alliance Française Dublin Charities Institute Ireland DePaul Ireland The Irish Traveller Movement ALONE Charleville Castle Heritage Trust DIT Foundation Genio Irish Wheelchair Association Alzheimer Society of Ireland Chernobyl Children's Project Diversity Sligo GET Local Irish Youth Foundation Amal Women's Association Chester Beatty Library Dogs for the Disabled Giving iScoil Amber - Kilkenny Women's Refuge Chief O'Neill Festival Dogs Trust GIY—Grow It Yourself Islamic Foundation of Ireland American Irish Historical Society Children, Adults, Parents Donal Walsh #Livelife Foundation Glasnevin Cemetery Museum Iveagh Trust An Cosán and Autism (CAPAA) Donegal Clinical Academy Trust Glenstal Abbey Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation An Taisce Children's Law Centre Donegal Family Resource Centre GOAL Jesuit Refugee Service Ireland An tUltach Children's Medical Down Right Brilliant Gonzaga College S.J. Jewish Home of Ireland Anam Cara Research Foundation Down Syndrome Centre Good Shepherd Cork Jigsaw Angel Eyes NI ChildVision Down Syndrome Ireland Greater Dublin Independent Living John F. Kennedy Center for Archbishop Marsh's Library Cill Rialaig Project Dr Crokes GAA Club Grow in Ireland the Performing Arts Ardoyne Holycross Boxing Club Cinemagic Dress for Success Dublin Haven John F. Kennedy Library Foundation The Ark CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory Druid Theatre Company Hawk's Well Theatre John F. Kennedy Trust Arthritis Ireland Clara Family and Community Dublin International Headstrong Junior Achievement Ireland Ashoka Resource Centre Piano Competition Helium Arts Kenmare Carnegie Arts Centre AsIAm Clarecare Dublin Jewish Board of Guardians Hello World Foundation Kenmare Chamber of Athlone Sub Aqua Club Clogherny Church Dublin Jewish Helpful Steps Commerce & Tourism Atlantic Challenge Ireland Clonard Monastery Progressive Congregation High Kirk Social Action Kerry Film Festival Baboró International Arts Clonturk Community College Dublin Simon Community in our Community Kerry GAA Centre of Excellence Festival for Children Cloughjordan Circus Club Dublin Talmud Torah Holy Family Boxing Club Kerry Hospice Foundation Backstage Theatre Cnoc na Gaoithe Dublin/Wicklow Mountain Holy Trinity Abbey Kerry Parents & Friends Ballina/Killaloe Sports Coalition of Irish Rescue Team Holywell Trust Kerry Rape & Sexual Abuse Centre & Community Facilities Immigration Centers Dunbrody Famine Ship The Hunt Museum Kilkenny Arts Festival Development Co. Coláiste Iognáid Easi Access Transport Huntington's Disease Killaloe Community Bantry Development and Comhlacht Tithe agus Forbairt Eastern Harps GAA Club Association of Ireland Development Co. Tourist Association an tSuláin Teo Educate Together The Icon Walk Killarney Immigrant Support Centre Bantry Hospice Project Community Action Network Elemental Festival Team In Your Space NI Kinship Care Northern Ireland Bantry Inshore Search & Community Centre for Music Emerald Isle Immigration Inner City Enterprise Knocknagoshel Over55's Social Rescue Association and the Arts Center of New York Institute of Cultural Studies Club and Women's Group Bantry Rowing Club The Community Foundation Emerald Warriors RFC Institute of Technology Tralee Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering Barnardos for Northern Ireland Empowering People In Care (EPIC) Integrated Education Fund The Lantern Community Project Barretstown Conamara Environmental Enable Ireland Ireland Institute of LASALLE College of the Arts Baseball Ireland Educational and Cultural Centre Enactus Ireland Ireland US Council Foundation Lauragh Community Council Basispoint Concern Worldwide Energy Action Ireland's Great Hunger Museum LauraLynn Ireland's Bedford Row Family Project Connemara Therapeutic Riding Enniscorthy Rugby Club IRFU Charitable Trust Children's Hospice BeLonG To Conradh na Gaeilge Extraordinary Bodies— Irish American Cultural Institute Leitrim Calling Belvedere College S.J. Co-operation Ireland Carlow Arts Festival Irish American Heritage Center Lewis Glucksman Gallery Belvedere Youth Club Cope Foundation The Festival of Curiosity Irish American Writers & Artists Lifestart Foundation Benefacts COPE Galway Fettercairn Youth Horse Project Irish Ancestry Research Centre Lime Tree Theatre Blackrock Castle Observatory Cork ARC Cancer Support House Field Day Collective Irish Architectural Archive Limerick Institute of Technology Blackrock College Cork Counselling Services Fighting Words Irish Arts Center Listowel Writers' Week Blackrock Hospice Cork Foundation Flax Trust Irish Autism Action The Little Museum of Dublin Blanchardstown Traveller Cork Penny Dinners Focus Family Resource Centre Irish Cancer Society GAA Development Group Cork Simon Community Focus Ireland Irish Chamber Orchestra Longford Women's Link Blossom Ireland Cork University Foundation FoodCloud Irish Children's Museum Lyric Theatre The Blue Box Creative Corrymeela Community Foróige Donegal Irish Community Rapid Response Mae Murray Foundation Learning Centre Cox's Demesne Youth and Foróige Network for Irish Council for Civil Liberties Mahon Blackrock Local Blue Teapot Theatre Company Community Project Teaching Entrepreneurship Irish Cultural Centre Education Committee BlueFire Croagh Community Council Forum for Cities in Transition Irish Film Festival Make-A-Wish Ireland Brain Injury Matters NI Crosscare Foxford Community Garden Irish Film Institute Making Connections British-Irish Association Crossover Basketball NI Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC) Irish Georgian Society Mallow Day Care Centre

connect 2018 • 8 Maria Goretti Foundation Native Woodland Trust Ranelagh Multi- Special Olympics Ireland Trinity Foundation Marie Curie - Belfast New York Irish Center Denominational School Specialisterne Ireland Two Castles Amateur Boxing Club Marie Keating Foundation Newpin NI Rathbarry National School The Spectrum Centre Tyrone GAA Marina Dalglish Appeal Newry City AFC Special Rathfriland and District Speedpak Group UCC Cork Cancer Research Center Mark Pollock Trust Olympic Club Regeneration Co. Spinal Injuries Ireland UCD Michael Smurfit School Mary Immaculate College The Next Step Rebel Wheelers Spraoi agus Spórt Family Centre of Business The Mary Robinson Centre No Mind Left Behind ReCreate St. Brigid's Church Belfast Ulster University Foundation The Mater Foundation North Offaly Community Rights Watch UK St. James's Hospital Foundation The Undergraduate Awards Mayo Roscommon Hospice Development The RISE Foundation St. Jarlath's Court University College Foundation North West Clare Family The Rory McDonagh Trust Residents' Association Dublin Foundation The Mendicity Institution Resource Centre Rory McIlroy Foundation St. Jarlath's Diocesan Trust University of Limerick Foundation McAuley Place Northend United Youth FC Roscommon Board GAA St. Luke's Home Valentia Island Development Co. Meath GAA Northern Ireland Roscommon Women's Network St. Malachy's College Verbal Arts Centre Meningitis Research Foundation Children's Enterprise Rosemont Secondary School St. Mary's College Via Wings Mental Health Reform Northern Ireland Hospice for Girls St. Mary's Youth & Village Counselling Service Merchants Quay Ireland Northern Ireland Rossinver Community Communtiy Centre Vineyard Compassion Mercy Law Resource Centre Phoenix Organisation Development Co. St. Matthew's National School Washington-Ireland Programme Michael McCarthaigh's Juvenile Not So Different Rough Magic Theatre Company St. Mel's College Waterford Healing Arts Trust GAA Club NUI Galway Rowing Ireland St. Munchin's College West Cork Music Mid & East Antrim NUI Maynooth Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland St. Patrick Visitor Centre West Cork Rural Transport Agewell Partnership NYU Glucksman Ireland House Royal Hibernian Academy St. Patrick's Cathedral—Dublin West Cork Women Against Midlands Science O'Hanlon Park Boxing Club Royal Irish Academy of Music St. Patrick's Mental Health Service Violence Project Midlands Simon Community Omeath District Rural Area Partnership in Derry St. Ultan's Childcare project Wexford Festival Opera Milford Care Centre Development Company SAFE Ireland St. Vincent's Foundation Wexford GAA Miltown Malbay One in Four The Salvation Army Ireland St. Vincent's GAA Whitegates Community Business Development Company Open Door Trust Science Gallery Strokestown GAA Wicklow Hospice Foundation Mobility Mojo Origin Theatre Company Scoil Chríost Rí Suas Educational Development Wicklow Travellers Group Move4Parkinson's Foundation Ossory Youth Scoil Uí Chonaill Suttonians Rugby Footbal Club Women For Election Moy Hill Community Farm Our Lady's Hospice Self Help Africa SWAN Youth service Women in Business NI MRC Community Arts and Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund Senior Citizen Helpline Company Tara Centre Women on Air Crafts Group PeacePlayers International Sensational Kids Temple Bar Gallery and Studios The XLc Project MS Ireland Peter McVerry Trust Shalom Centre for Temple Street Foundation Yeats Society Sligo Music Generation Philanthropy Ireland Conflict Reconciliation Temporary Emergency Young at Art Mustard Seed Ireland Pieta House Sharing Point Accommodation Mulingar Young Social Innovators MyMind The Playhouse ShoutOut Third Age Foundation Youth Initiatives Na Píobairí Uilleann Poetry Ireland Show Racism the Red Card Thomas F. Meagher Foundation Youth Work Ireland—Tipperary Narrative 4 Ireland The Princess Grace Irish Library Siel Bleu Ireland Thoor Ballylee Development Nasc The Pushkin Trust Skibbereen Active & Social Club Three Drives Family National College of Ireland— Queen's University of The Soar Foundation Resource Centre Early Learning Initiative Belfast Foundation Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Tipperary Rural Travellers Project National Gallery of Ireland Raheny Community Social Innovation Fund Ireland Together-Razem Centre National Library of Ireland First Responder Group Society of Saint Vincent de Paul Transformative College The National Trust Ramelton Town Hall Solace House Trinity Centre for People with National Women's Council Development Co. Solas Project Intellectual Disabilities (TCPID) of Ireland

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continuing on a high note

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