WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Three historically black North Carolina colleges received historic financial gifts from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
She gave Winston-Salem State University a record $30 million as part of more than $4.15 billion in donations to 384 organizations in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. She donated $45 million to North Carolina A&T State University and $15 million to Elizabeth City State University. Scott listed the recipients of her donations and why she did it in a post on Medium.com titled 384 ways to help. Among the other recipients are food banks, emergency relief funds and legal defense funds which address institutional discrimination.
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Here are the North Carolina nonprofits and HBCUs getting millions from MacKenzie Scott
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
MacKenzie Scott, worldâs richest woman, gives historic $10 million gift to Charlotte-area Goodwill In this March 4, 2018 file photo, then-MacKenzie Bezos arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif. A donation from author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott to Virginia State University has become the largest single donor gift in the historically Black collegeâs history. The $30 million donation by Scott was announced Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, in a post that detailed the nearly $4.2 billion in gifts given to nonprofit organizations by the philanthropist in 2020. (Source: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) By Andrew Barnett | December 16, 2020 at 5:11 PM EST - Updated December 16 at 5:11 PM
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