If MacKenzie Scott had been able to write the headline for stories about her recent philanthropic gifts, it would have been “286 Teams Empowering Voices the World Needs to Hear.”
But I don’t remember seeing any headlines like that – the stories I read were all about the gigantic amount of money that was being donated. Which seems to be one of the problems of journalism these days – a lot of it misses the point.
So when I found her blog post entitled “Seeding by ceding” while learning about one of the groups who got money, I was grateful to learn about the “why”.
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