December 16, 2020

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - MARCH 04: Jeff Bezos (L) and MacKenzie Bezos attend the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 4, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

MacKenzie Scott donates $4.2 billion to 384 organizations, to include HBCUs

Published on December 16, 2020December 16, 2020

MacKenzie Scott announced on Tuesday her second major charitable contribution of the year, giving away nearly $4.2 billion to 384 organizations as part of a plan to donate a majority of her fortune. The announcement comes just four months after Scott donated $1.7 billion to 116 organizations, including four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs),

A refugee who fled the conflict in the Ethiopia's Tigray fills his gallon with water at Hamdeyat Transition Center near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, eastern Sudan on December 3

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The world’s most vulnerable face conflict, Covid-19 and climate change in 2021, report says

Published on December 16, 2020

Optimism about 2021 is emerging in wealthier corners of the world, with both the United States and the United Kingdom beginning Covid-19 vaccinations and other nations close behind. But for many countries, the long tail of the pandemic could make next year even more devastating than 2020. The coronavirus, combined with climate change and conflict,