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Synergos Institute in NYC a not-for-profit organization which does not promote itself, but the people it serves Interview with Robert Dunn, CEO of the Synergos Institute

Q: What is Synergos and what exactly do you do? Synergos is a non-profit-making organization, founded in 1986 by Peggy Dulany, the daughter of David Rockefeller. Our mission is to reduce global poverty through “inclusive partnerships”, bringing together government, business, civil society and local communities. Synergos works with leaders in public, private, non-profit and civil society sectors to change systems that keep people in poverty. Bringing together government, business, civil society, and poor and marginalized communities, Synergos works with…

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Irish in Australia’: Octavius Charles Beale

The Beale Piano Factory in Annandale Sydney was once praised as the ‘largest piano factory’ in the British Empire. It was founded by Octavius Charles Beale who arrived in Australia as a child from Co. Leix during the gold rush of the 1850s. By the mid 1920s the factory had turned out more than 60,000 instruments and Beale himself was a prominent business man and public figure, confidante of politicians and active in manufacturers’ associations. Prior to making pianos,…

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