Melinda French Gates And MacKenzie Scott To Fund Women’s And Girls’ Causes – 3 Takeaways
Tessa Skidmore, IUPUI and Jacqueline Ackerman, IUPUI
Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott, two of the biggest U.S. donors, have joined forces by funding the Equality Can’t Wait Challenge.
The contest, intended to expand the power and influence of women in the United States by 2030, garnered more than 550 proposals. On July 29, 2021, French Gates and Scott announced the winners: Four initiatives will each receive US$10 million, and two more will get $4 million apiece. In addition to the women formerly married to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies is providing some of these funds.
It marks the first official donor collaboration between French Gates and Scott. The money will help boost support for caregivers...