MacKenzie Scott, worldâs richest woman, donates billions to nearly 400 organizations including multiple N.C. HBCUs, Charlotte YMCA The donations came over the last four months with $4,158,500,000 in gifts to these organizations across all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington D.C. (Source: Pixabay) By Andrew Barnett | December 15, 2020 at 8:43 PM EST - Updated December 15 at 8:51 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Billionaire novelist and venture philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated nearly $4.2 billion to 384 organizations as part of a plan to donate a majority of her fortune.
She is the 18th richest person in the world, with a net worth of over $60 billion. She is also the richest woman in the world and the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
‘This gift will change lives’: Winston-Salem State gets largest gift ever: $30 million
University officials said the gift was the largest gift ever from one donor. Officials said the gift will be invested to meet the university’s highest priorities. Author: Terrence Jefferies (WFMY News 2) Published: 5:20 PM EST December 15, 2020 Updated: 5:20 PM EST December 15, 2020
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Winston-Salem State University got the largest gift ever in the university’s 128-year history Tuesday: $30 million from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.
University officials said the gift was the largest gift from one donor. Officials said the gift will be invested to meet the university’s highest priorities.
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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of a few schools that held in-person classes this fall now being singled out for some praise after largely mitigating the spread of COVID-19.
At Illinois, students and staff entered buildings by showing an innovative phone app documenting a recent negative test. The school’s positivity rate spiked to 3% in late August but stayed well below 1% the remainder of the fall while classes were split between in-person and online.
“As an instructor, if I wanted to get into my classroom, I’d need to show the code, which shows a negative test result,” Mr. Ivanov said.
Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
Jackson State University, the historically Black educational institution in Mississippi, received a $420,000 grant from the CDC Foundation to develop a marketing campaign to reduce and prevent the disproportionate COVID-19 transmissions among African Americans ages 18 to 29 in Hinds, Madison, and Rankin counties. These three counties have experienced the highest rate of transmissions in Mississippi.
The College of Business at historically Black
Delaware State University received a $500,000 New Castle County Innovative Grant to create a web-based COVID Recovery Lab to help businesses in Delaware’s northernmost region recover from the pandemic. Michael Casson, dean of the College of Business, is the principal investigator of the grant.