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World’s richest woman donates $15 million to Elizabeth City State University
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ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — The world’s richest woman, MacKenzie Scott, has donated $15 million to Elizabeth City State University.
It is the largest gift from a single donor in the school’s 130-year history, according to a release from the university.
The money will go towards academics, athletics, student experiences and faculty and staff development, said Chancellor Karrie G. Dixon.
“Thanks to Ms. Scott’s gift, this affords us the opportunity to improve the institution’s financial footing for long-term stability,” Dixon said in the release.
Scott is an author and the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. She received a 4% stake in the company as part of the divorce settlement last year, according to Forbes.
Scott’s net worth of $68 billion makes her the richest woman in the world and 12th richest person in the world, according to a CNN report in September.
She signed the Giving Pledge in 2019 and announced in July she had given $1.9 billion to nonprofits and historically Black universities, Forbes said. She announced today she has given away another $4.2 billion in the last four months, according to Bloomberg.com
The Giving Pledge initiative, started by Warren Buffet and Bill and Melinda Gates, encourages the rich to donate a majority of their wealth to charity.
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Food Bank of Albermarle to Receive Philanthropic Investment from MacKenzie Scott
December 16, 2020 1:20 pm
Elizabeth City – Today, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott published a list of charitable investments that she is making in non-profit organizations across the United States. Food Bank of the Albemarle is honored and proud to be included in this list of gift recipients.
“Food Bank of the Albemarle is incredibly humbled by this generous gift, and we are convening with our board of directors and leadership team to ensure the philanthropy entrusted to us will help the people of northeastern North Carolina access more nutritious food today during the COVID-19 crisis and for the long term,” said Liz Reasoner, Executive Director of Food Bank of the Albemarle. “Food Bank of the Albemarle expects to receive its gift from MacKenzie Scott before the end of 2020.”
“MacKenzie Scott’s investment in northeastern NC is a vote of confidence in the work that we are doing every day to end hunger,” Reasoner continued. “From our more than 100 hunger-relief partners, to our individual, business, and foundations that support us with financial contributions at every level, we are incredibly fortunate to receive such recognition and feel it is our duty to be a responsible steward for today and the future of the Food Bank.”
“This philanthropic funding from MacKenzie Scott will provide the most needed resources as we work toward ending hunger in our 15 county service area,” said Reasoner, “but the issue of hunger is much larger than any one philanthropist can solve. Ending the devastating and life altering effects of hunger in our communities is within our reach, and it can only be accomplished if we all come together and contribute to the solution. Together, we can solve hunger.”
This announcement comes as North Carolina is in the midst of an unprecedented hunger crisis. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, northeastern NC had an estimated number of over 47,000 food insecure people. Since March, that number has risen to around 57,000 and is on the rise; 14,000 of whom are children.
Based on data from Feeding America, the largest hunger-relief organization in the U.S., Food Bank of the Albemarle estimates that there are around 4.8 million meals missing from the plates of people in our region this year, on top of the 7 million meals the Food Bank and its partners are currently providing. The organization aims to close this meal gap by 2025.
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The historic MacKenzie Scott gifts to historically Black colleges and others: Which schools got how much
By
Nick Anderson and
Lauren Lumpkin
Jan. 5, 2021 at 3:46 p.m. EST
In July and December, billionaire MacKenzie Scott announced nearly $6 billion in gifts to colleges and various nonprofit and charitable organizations. She did not specify how much each college or university received, but many schools have disclosed the sums. The total earmarked for higher education exceeds $800 million.
MacKenzie Scott’s surprise gift of $800 million to HBCUs and other colleges seen as ‘transformational’
Here’s what we know about these historic gifts, with the sums rendered in millions of dollars. Sectors include historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving institutions (HSI) and Tribal colleges and universities serving Native Americans. Some schools without official minority-serving designations are marked as public.
SCHOOL
SECTOR
STATE
GIFT $M
Prairie View A&M U.
HBCU
Texas
$50
Indian River State College Foundation
Public
Fla.
$45
North Carolina A&T State U.
HBCU
N.C.
$45
Howard U.
HBCU
D.C.
$40
Morgan State U.
HBCU
Md.
$40
Norfolk State U.
HBCU
Va.
$40
Santa Fe College
Public
Fla.
$40
Texas A&M International U.
HSI
Texas
$40
Borough of Manhattan Community College
HSI
N.Y.
$30
Hampton U.
HBCU
Va.
$30
Lehman College (City U. of New York)
HSI
N.Y.
$30
Virginia State U.
HBCU
Va.
$30
Winston-Salem State U.
HBCU
N.C.
$30
Alcorn State U.
HBCU
Miss.
$25
Bowie State U.
HBCU
Md.
$25
Claflin U.
HBCU
S.C.
$20
Delaware State U.
HBCU
Del.
$20
Lincoln U.
HBCU
Pa.
$20
Morehouse College
HBCU
Ga.
$20
Palo Alto College
HSI
Texas
$20
Spelman College
HBCU
Ga.
$20
Tuskegee U.
HBCU
Ala.
$20
U. of Maryland Eastern Shore
HBCU
Md.
$20
Xavier U. of Louisiana
HBCU
La.
$20
Clark Atlanta U.
HBCU
Ga.
$15
Elizabeth City State U.
HBCU
N.C.
$15
Mount Saint Mary’s U.
HSI
Calif.
$15
Northeast Community College
Public
Neb.
$15
Walla Walla Community College
Public
Wash.
$15
West Kentucky Community and Technical College
Public
Ky.
$15
Navajo Technical University
Tribal
N.M.
$12
Whittier College
HSI
Calif.
$12
Turtle Mountain Community College
Tribal
N.D.
$8
Tougaloo College
HBCU
Miss.
$6
Dillard U.
HBCU
La.
$5
Institute of American Indian Arts
Tribal
N.M.
$5
Voorhees College
HBCU
S.C.
$4
Blackfeet Community College
Tribal
Mont.
unknown
Chief Dull Knife College
Tribal
Mont.
unknown
Lake Area Technical College
Public
S.D.
unknown
Mitchell Technical College
Public
S.D.
unknown
Salish Kootenai College
Tribal
Mont.
*unknown
Sources: MacKenzie Scott’s donation list and school officials
*Note: Some schools have described the magnitude of the gift but not the precise amount. Salish Kootenai College received a seven-figure gift (in the millions).
It is also worth noting that three scholarship organizations devoted to helping disadvantaged minority students go to college also received major gifts from Scott. They were the United Negro College Fund, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and TheDream.us, which serves students who arrived in the United States as undocumented immigrants when they were children.
This chart will be updated.
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Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donates $10 million to YMCA of South Hampton Roads, largest gift in organization's history
https://www.wtkr.com/news/philanthropist-mackenzie-scott-donates-10-million-to-ymca-of-south-hampton-roads-largest-gift-in-organizations-history
By: Web StaffPosted at 1:35 PM, Dec 16, 2020 and last updated 1:35 PM, Dec 16, 2020
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $10 million to the YMCA of South Hampton Roads as part of $4.1 billion in philanthropic donations she gave to hundreds of charities and organizations across the nation.
The gift is the largest in the YMCA of South Hampton Roads' history.
“Our Y is filled with gratitude and thankfulness in Mackenzie Scott’s recognition of the Y's contributions to the communities we serve, specifically in the areas of child care during the pandemic, our ability to pivot our Centers by distributing and collecting food for those in need, and our commitment to diversity & inclusion practices,” said Anthony Walters, president and CEO of the YMCA of South Hampton Roads, in a statement.
The gift will allow the Y to continue its response to child care needs, deliver virtual wellness services and strengthen its efforts to provide essential programs to the Hampton Roads community, the organization said.
Scott said in a December 15 statement that 384 nonprofits were chosen as part of her giving effort. Locally, she also gave $40 million to Norfolk State University - the largest gift the historically Black university has ever received.
Here are the North Carolina nonprofits and HBCUs getting millions from MacKenzie Scott
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/here-are-the-north-carolina-nonprofits-and-hbcus-getting-millions-from-mackenzie-scott/ar-BB1bZ6Ae
Dec. 16—Billionaire MacKenzie Scott donated to several nonprofits and historically Black colleges in North Carolina.
Millions of dollars have gone to Elizabeth City State University, North Carolina A&T State University and Winston-Salem State University, the schools announced Tuesday.
The gifts are part of Scott's efforts to give away more than $4.1 billion in the past four months, which have been marked with hardships for many families, she wrote Tuesday on the website Medium. Other North Carolina recipients listed in her post:
— Food Bank of Eastern & Central North Carolina
— Goodwill Industries of Northwest North Carolina
— Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont
— MANNA Food Bank
— Meals on Wheels Durham
— Self-Help Ventures Fund
— United Way of Greater Greensboro
— United Way of the Greater Triangle
— YMCA of Greater Charlotte
— YMCA of High Point
"This pandemic has been a wrecking ball in the lives of Americans already struggling," Scott wrote in her post. "Economic losses and health outcomes alike have been worse for women, for people of color, and for people living in poverty. Meanwhile, it has substantially increased the wealth of billionaires."
Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, said she donated to 384 organizations after a team identified areas where she would be able to make the greatest impact. Scott, who said the process started with a review of 6,490 organizations, didn't mention in detail how the three North Carolina colleges were chosen.
In the state, the donations were welcome news to the HBCUs she selected.
At Winston-Salem State, officials say Scott's $30 million donation was the largest one person had ever given.
"This gift will immediately change lives," Chancellor Elwood L. Robinson said in a news release. "Words cannot express our most sincere appreciation to Ms. Scott for choosing to invest in our university. This gift will allow us to nationally highlight our impact in the community, put our students at the forefront of academic success and leverage a whole new standard of philanthropic giving."
Elizabeth City State and North Carolina A&T universities — which received $15 million and $45 million, respectively — also shared their gratitude for Scott in news releases.
The news comes as famous graduates recently have helped to put historically Black colleges and universities in the national spotlight. Earlier this year, billionaire Michael Bloomberg made a pledge to donate $100 million to medical programs at four HBCUs, McClatchy News reported.
There are 101 HBCUs nationwide, and some of the schools this fall expected enrollment drops due to the coronavirus pandemic. While tuition at public HBCUs is below average, lower endowments and COVID-19 have threatened schools' survival, The News & Observer reported in August.