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5 ways MacKenzie Scott’s $8.5 billion commitment to social and economic justice is a model for other donors

  • Written by Elizabeth J. Dale, Associate Professor of Nonprofit Leadership, Seattle University
imageGraduates of Cal State Fullerton, one of many universities with nonwhite majorities that billionaire MacKenzie Scott is supporting.Jeff Gritchen/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images

The author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott announced on June 15, 2021, that she and her husband Dan Jewett had given US$2.7 billion to 286...

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