Tag: MacKenzie Scott
Project Weber/RENEW receives $1M gift from MacKenzie Scott
PROVIDENCE – Project Weber/RENEW is getting a seven-figure financial boost from the former wife of Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos, and it arrived at...
R.I. Food Bank receives $500K grant to address racial disparities in...
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Community Food Bank recently received a $500,000 grant from Feeding America’s Food Security Equity Impact Fund to help address...
More focus on racial justice causes
It’s been a trying year-plus for Rhode Island-based nonprofits whose missions center around diversity, equity and racial inclusion.
The murders of George Floyd and other...
Donating done the best way
author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott announced on June 15 that she and her husband, Dan Jewett, had given $2.7 billion to 286 organizations, including...
United Way of R.I. awards $4.5M in grants to organizations promoting...
PROVIDENCE – As part of the United Way of Rhode Island’s five-year, $100 million plan to create transformative change in the Ocean State, the nonprofit...
United Way of R.I. receives $10M gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott
PROVIDENCE – The United Way of Rhode Island received an eight-figure gift from a nationally prominent philanthropist that will help the nonprofit’s upcoming goals...
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