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Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott gave more multimillion donations out to colleges.<\/p>\n
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Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is at it again with another round of gifts.<\/p>\n
Robeson Community College in North Carolina announced a $24\u00a0million gift from Scott on Thursday, the single largest contribution in the rural college\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
Robeson\u2019s president, Melissa Singler, called the gift \u201ca profound affirmation of our students, our faculty and staff, and the limitless potential of Robeson County.”<\/p>\n
\u201cNever before have we been given a gift of this magnitude that affords our team the time, space and freedom to think, dream and plan boldly,\u201d Singler said in a news release.<\/p>\n
Scott also gifted Carl Albert State College in Oklahoma $23\u00a0million. The college is working on a strategic plan for how to use the funds, focused on \u201csustainability, academic and career success, innovation, and community engagement,\u201d according to an announcement last week. Connors State College, also in Oklahoma, celebrated a $15\u00a0million contribution from Scott, its largest gift ever.<\/p>\n
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College also announced a \u201cmulti-million dollar gift\u201d last week, the largest unrestricted gift in its history, but didn\u2019t specify the amount. The tribal college plans to use Scott\u2019s funding to support scholarships and grants for native and non-native students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott gave more multimillion donations out to colleges. picture alliance\/Getty Images Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is at it again with another round of gifts. Robeson Community College in North Carolina announced a $24\u00a0million gift from Scott on Thursday, the single largest contribution in the rural college\u2019s history. Robeson\u2019s president, Melissa Singler, called the gift<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[4673,8133,17962,7884,3599],"class_list":{"0":"post-37622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-colleges","9":"tag-gifts","10":"tag-mackenzie","11":"tag-scott","12":"tag-showers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}