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TikTok made the day for Florida A&M University students who were thrilled to learn Wednesday that TikTok’s Future Health Heroes Fund will be giving FAMU $1 million for scholarships.
The fund is designed to provide undergraduate and graduate scholarships for Black, Latinx and indigenous students pursuing medical and health care careers.
Since 2020 has been a difficult year for many people, TikTok made a commitment to supporting the efforts of healthcare workers. Earlier in the year, TikTok donated $150 million through its Health Heroes Relief Fund. The Chinese-owned video-sharing social networking service donated $10 million to 10 different institutions that serve underrepresented students with programs focused on public health and professions in the medical and healthcare fields.
MacKenzie Scott Gives Away $4.2 Billion, and Colleges Rejoice
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Many of the gifts, which were made over the last four months, went to historically Black colleges or universities, tribal colleges, or community colleges. Among the beneficiaries are Prairie View A&M University, an HBCU in Texas, which described Scott’s $50 million gift as the largest ever gift in the college’s history. Other HBCUs reported receiving record-breaking gifts from Scott in the tens of millions: Morgan State University, in Baltimore, reported a gift of $40 million; Winston-Salem State University, in North Carolina, reported a gift of $30 million; and Delaware State University and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore reported gifts of $20 million each.
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