thank you The generosity of our donors has changed thousands of lives across the island of Ireland and around the world. The Ireland Funds has never wavered in its commitment and core mission: to deliver private philanthropy 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 2017 • 6 “Co-operation Ireland is committed to peace-building on the island of Ireland and we will continue to deliver innovative programs which challenge people’s thinking and attitudes. Support we receive from The Ireland Funds highlights what can be achieved with funding that allows for more creativity and input from the people the programs aim to help.” — CO-OPERATION IRELAND “The Ireland Funds have been huge to our charity. We wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for The Ireland Funds. In those early years the funding was so critical because when we started there was nothing else coming in. It’s been a great relationship.” — IRISH DOGS FOR THE DISABLED Impact Report “Historically, there hasn’t been a tradition of private philanthropy in Ireland. But it’s organizations like The Ireland Funds that have taken the lead. Their role has been absolutely vital to philanthropy here.” — THE LITTLE MUSEUM OF DUBLIN “Our work is pioneering and without The Ireland Funds’ support we would not be able to deliver this. Support from The Ireland Funds is helping us to change the lives of these young people in Northern Ireland.” — THE PLAYHOUSE connect 2017 • 7 BELOW IS A SAMPLE OF THE OVER 3,000 OUTSTANDING ORGANIZATIONS YOUR GENEROSITY HAS ASSISTED. 1428 Active Retirement Club Camerata Ireland Doras Luimní Headstrong Knocknagoshel Over 55’s Social 174 Trust Camphill Communities of Ireland Down Syndrome Ireland Headway Club and Women’s Group Abbey School Cancer Fund for Children Draoicht Headway Belfast Limited Abbey Theatre Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) Dress for Success Healthy Food for All LARCC Cancer Support Centre Acquired Brain Injury Ireland Care After Prison Drogheda & District Support Heartshare Larne YMCA Adult Literacy and Care Local 4 Older People Helium Arts Learmount Community Basic Education Carers’ Association Dromboughil Community Hello World Foundation Development Group Age & Opportunity Carers Northern Ireland Association Henrietta Adult & Learning Hub Limerick Age Northern Ireland Carmichael Centre for Druid Theatre Company Community Education Leisure Buddies Project— Age Concern Network Voluntary Groups Drumlane Community Home Share Clare St. Christopher’s Services of Newcastle and District Catholic Institute for Deaf People Partnership Home Start Down District Leitrim Calling Aisling Community Center ChangeX Dublin City University The Icon Walk Letterkenny IT Akidwa Charities Institute Ireland Dublin Civic Trust Independent Age Lewis Glucksman Gallery A K Ilen Boatbuilding School Charleville Castle Heritage Trust Dublin International Piano Inner City Enterprise Lifestart National Office ALONE Chicago Irish Immigration Competition Inspire Ireland Lifford/Clonleigh Resource Alzheimer Society of Ireland Support Dublin Jewish Board of Integrated Education Fund Centre American Irish Historical Society Child Abuse Prevention Guardians Inter-Aid Lighthouse Amber, Kilkenny Women’s Refuge Programme Dublin Simon Community Intercom Ligoniel Family Centre AnamBeo Children’s Law Centre Dublin SPCA Iorras Le Chéile CDP Limerick Enterprise Anam Cara Parent & Sibling Northern Ireland Dublin Talmud Torah Ireland Chamber of Development Partnership Bereavement Support Children’s Medical and Dublin Theatre Festival Commerce in the US Limerick Institute of Technology An Taisce—The National Trust Research Foundation Dublin UNESCO City of Literature Ireland US Council Link Academy CIC for Ireland Children’s Rights Alliance Dundalk Youth Centre Irish Ancestry Research Listowel Writers’ Week An Cosán—The Shanty Children’s Sunshine Home— Dun Laoghaire Refugee Project Centre (IARC) Little Museum of Dublin Apex Housing Association Derry Laura Lynn House East Belfast Community Agency Irish Architectural Archive LOGIC ARC Healthy Living Centre Christopher L. Keeley Scholars East Clare Community Irish Association of Longford Women’s Link Ardglass Development Cill Rialig Project Cooperative Society Youth Orchestras Lost Lives Association Cill tSeandan Teo Eden Alternative Irish Arts Center Lyric Theatre Ardoyne Holycross Boxing Club Cinemagic Edmund Rice Summer Irish Autism Action Macnas Arthritis Care Northern Ireland CIT Blackrock Castle Camps Dublin Irish Chamber Orchestra Macushla Dance Club for 50+ The Ark Observatory The Educational Trust Irish Community Rapid Response Mahon Blackrock Local Ashoka Ireland Citóg Educate Together Irish Council for Civil Liberties Educational Committee AsIAm City of Dublin YMCA Educate through Irish Cultural Centre of New Making Connections Athlone Community Radio Citywise Education Sport Foundation England Mark Pollock Trust Autism Speaks Clondalkin Travellers Eiru Trust Irish Deaf Kids Mary Immaculate College Aware Development Group Emerald Isle Immigration Center Irish Dogs for the Disabled Mater Foundation Baboró International Arts Festival Cloughmills Community Emer Casey Foundation Irish Film Institute Matt Talbot Services for Children Action Team Empowering People in Irish Forum for Global Health Mayo Mountain Rescue Backstage Theatre Club Shine Care (EPIC) Irish Georgian Society Meánscoil Mhuire Ballinglen Arts Foundation Cnoc na Gaoithe—Tulla Enactus Ireland Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind Meath Youth Federation Ballybeg Community Comhaltas Cultural Centre Enable Ireland Irish Heart Foundation Mental Health Reform Development Project CoisCéim Dance Theatre Energy Action Irish Hospice Foundation Merchants Quay Ireland Ballyclare Family Focus Coalition of Irish Epilepsy Ireland Irish Immigration Center Mercy International Association Ballyhoura Heritage Immigration Centers FACE Fermoy Action Irish International Immigrant Mercy Law Resource Centre & Environment Coláiste Mhichíl Children’s Education Center The Michael Smurfit Ballymacormack Community Comharchumann Forbartha Families First Irish Men’s Sheds Association Business School at UCD Development Group Community Action Network Feeny Community Association Irish Museum of Modern Art Midlands Science Banbridge Arthritis Care Community Focus Learning Feile an Phobail Irish Penal Reform Trust Midlands Simon Community Bantry Inshore Search and Community Relations in Schools The Festival of Curiosity Irish Repertory Theatre Migrant Disability Network Rescue Association Concern Worldwide Fettercairn Youth Horse Project Irish Seed Savers Ireland Barnardos Co-operation Ireland Fighting Words Irish Society for the Prevention Mind Wise New Vision Barretstown Cope Galway Flax Trust of Cruelty to Animals Monaghan Integrated Beara Tourism Development Cork Boat Club Focus Ireland Irish Society for the Prevention Development Bedford Row Family Project Cork Counseling Services FoodCloud of Cruelty to Children Move4Parkinson’s Foundation Belfast Beltway Boxing Project Cork Foundation Foróige Network for Teaching Irish Stammering Association Moy Cosy Club BeLonG To Youth Services Cork Institute of Technology Entrepreneurship (NFTE) Irish Technology Moy Valley Community Belvedere College S.J. Cork Penny Dinners Foyle Search & Rescue Leadership Group Services Programme Belvedere Youth Club Corrymeela Community Free Legal Advice Centre (FLAC) Irish Traveller Movement— MS Ireland Benefacts County Roscommon Front Line Yellow Flag Programme Music Generation BirdWatch Ireland Disability Support Group Funky Fish Youth Café Irish Wheelchair Association Music Network Brothers of Charity Clare Cross Border Orchestra Gaelic Players Association Irish Youth Foundation MyMind Blanchardstown Traveller Cross Community Schools Gaelscoileanna iScoil Na Píobairí Uillean Development Group Project Gaisce - The President’s Award ISPCC – Irish Society for the Nasc Blue Box Creative Learning Crumlin Children’s Hospital Galway Arts Centre Prevention of Cruelty National Autistic Society Centre Crusaders Youth Academy Galway Autism Partnership to Children National College of Art & Design Blue Teapot Theatre Company Cuidigh Linn Galway Rape Crisis Centre Jack and Jill Children’s National College of Ireland— Bonmahon Parent/Carer Cuisle Cancer Support Centre Gate Theatre Foundation Parent-Child Home Toddler Group Cystic Fibrosis Association Generations in Action Jewish Home of Ireland Programme Boyne Garda Youth of Ireland Giants Community Foundation KASI Ltd.—Killarney Immigrant National Concert Hall Diversion Project Darndale/Belcamp Integrated Gig‘n the Bann Support Centre National Gallery of Ireland Brain Injury Matters NI Childcare Services Glenstal Abbey Keltic Dreams National Institute for Intellectual Bray Area Partnership DCU Ryan Academy Glentoran Academy Kerry Diocesan Youth Services Disability (NIID) Bridge21 DeafHear.ie GOAL Kerry Film Festival National Library of Ireland Trust Bridgeways Family Depaul Ireland The Goal Line Youth Trust Kerry GAA Centre of Excellence National University of Ireland Resource Centre DIT Foundation Gorta Kildare Traveller Action Galway British-Irish Association Diversity Challenges Greystones Family Kilkee Civic Trust National University of Ireland Blackrock College Diversity Sligo Resource Centre Kilkenny Age Friendly Maynooth Building Ballysally Together Domestic Violence Response Groundwork Northern Ireland County Programme Native