Empowering voices the world needs to hear – the story behind the big gifts

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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