Subseries IIc. Harvey P. Dale files, 1972-2003

Harvey Dale was a founding Director of the Atlantic Philanthropies, and served on the Board of the Atlantic Philanthropies before retiring in 2012. He also served as president and CEO of the Atlantic Foundation until 2001. Initially based at Atlantic's Ithaca office, Dale moved to the New York office upon its opening in 1986. In addition to his involvement with Atlantic Foundation and the Atlantic Philanthropies, Dale also provided tax advice for all of Chuck Feeney's entities, including Duty Free Shoppers, from 1964 until 2001. A faculty member of NYU School of Law since 1977, Dale founded the Program on Philanthropy and the Law at NYU School of Law in 1988 (now known as the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law). Mr. Dale was also Counsel at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York from 1983 to 2002.

He served in leadership roles for many charitable organizations in the United States and South Africa. Mr. Dale is a Trustee of the Legal Resources Trust in South Africa, Vice-Chair and Chairman of the Finance Committee of the International Center for Transitional Justice, Chairman of the Friends of the South African Constitutional Court (USA) Inc., and President and Director of the Southern Africa Legal Services Foundation. He served as an Advisor to the American Law Institute’s project on “Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations.”

Mr. Dale is a Life Member and a former Chair of the Cornell University Council, and was a member of the University’s Trustee Investment Committee from 1996 to 2005.  In 2007, he was named a Presidential Councillor by the Cornell Board of Trustees.  He is a member of the Board of Visitors to the Duke University Law School and was formerly a member of the Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Harvard Law School.  Mr. Dale is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.