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Nature’s Pride Foundation and GAIN join forces to put workforce nutrition into the spotlight At the start of the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables, as designated by the UN General Assembly, The Nature’s Pride Foundation (NPF) and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) announce a new partnership today, which aims to improve health by promoting better nutrition of workers in the fruit and vegetable sector. The partnership involves multiple tiers. One includes translating GAIN’s Nutrition at Work Handbook into four languages and then making it publicly availab...

Guest Editorial: A world-class template for giving Even in this season of giving, the announcement that MacKenzie Scott is giving $4.16 billion to hundreds of American organizations sent a powerful message. In a tsunami of philanthropy, she leapt toward fulfillment of her May 2019 pledge to donate the majority of her wealth to help others. In the process, she exemplified for the nation’s hundreds of other billionaires how to give back after getting much. The jaw-dropping sum is only part of what makes Scott’s act so impressive. It is a fortune by itself, one large enough to better the liv...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Dec. 22 The Washington Post on President Donald Trump’s final month in office: While Americans prepare to celebrate the holiday season, President Trump and his hardcore supporters are contemplating a turbulent final month that could make the rest of his chaotic presidency look placid. […]

2020/12/23 22:07 Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ The Washington Post on President Donald Trump's final month in office: While Americans prepare to celebrate the holiday season, President Trump and his hardcore supporters are contemplating a turbulent final month that could make the rest of his chaotic presidency look placid. As Mr. Trump sidelines even some of his most loyal aides and allies, the few checks that remained on the president’s behavior are eroding, potentially leading to a Jan. 6 showdown over ...

Giving Billions Fast, MacKenzie Scott Upends Philanthropy Through a streamlined operation, Ms. Scott has given away $6 billion this year, much of it to small charities and nonprofits. MacKenzie Scott in 2018. Her fortune comes from shares of Amazon that she got after her divorce last year from Jeff Bezos, the company’s founder.Credit...Getty Images Dec. 20, 2020 On a Monday evening in November, Dorri McWhorter, the chief executive of the Y.W.C.A. Metropolitan Chicago, got a phone call from a representative of the billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. The news was almost too good to be...