University among 384 beneficiaries of MacKenzie Scott’s generosity
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore is the recipient of a $20 million donation from philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott, the largest gift from an individual in school history.
UMES is among 384 organizations across the country, including 16 other historically black institutions, which collectively will benefit from $4.15 billion in the latest round of donations from Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos.
“We’re grateful to Ms. Scott for recognizing the great work we do at University of Maryland Eastern Shore especially with first-generation college students and under-represented minorities,” President Heidi M. Anderson said.
In a lengthy online posting, Scott wrote the “384 carefully selected teams have dedicated their lives to helping others, working and volunteering and serving real people face-to-face at bedsides and tables, in prisons and courtrooms and classrooms, on streets and hospital wards and hotlines and frontlines of all types and sizes, day after day after day.”
This past summer, Scott announced the release of $1.7 billion to support 116 organizations engaged in nine areas of interest to her, including Spelman and Morehouse colleges and Hampton, Howard, Tuskegee and Xavier (La.) universities, all private, historically black institutions.
Scott called the pandemic “a wrecking ball in the lives of Americans already struggling. Economic losses and health outcomes alike have been worse for women, for people of color, and for people living in poverty. Meanwhile, it has substantially increased the wealth of billionaires.”
Sorry for my negativity, but if someone is concerned about helping others wouldn’t it be just as helpful to hand out that kind of unimaginable money to individuals where it could do some good. I don’t trust that donations to state, political, institutions are in the hands of good stewards. We have all seen money disappear in such places and how the outcome is with the display of minds of mush. Give it to the actual hungry. All well, theirs to do as they please.
Ain’t that special? 20 million dollars plus the hundreds of millions of hardworking taxpayer dollars to an indoctrination center that hands out degrees in racism and victim hood. Not to mention the fact that half of them are muzzies.. Umes is destroying princess anne just like liberalism destroys everything it touches.
Just keep donating to Racist Black Colleges !!!
UMES has a long history of pissing away its funding.
Lets start some White colleges !!! Lets have Equality !!!