American Ireland Fund faces change in direction

The American Ireland Fund (AIF) will seek to establish a five-year strategic plan that will transform the charitable organisation at its annual conference in Cork this weekend.

The American Ireland Fund (AIF) will seek to establish a five-year strategic plan that will transform the charitable organisation at its annual conference in Cork this weekend.

Loretta Brennan Glucksman, who has been chairwoman of the AIF for 15 years, believes the fund has reached a pivotal moment in its history largely due to Ireland's new-found economic buoyancy.

She said it had become increasingly difficult to convince people to give to a more ...