MacKenzie Scott gave a $4 million unrestricted donation to the career-building nonprofit West Philadelphia Skills Initiative through her philanthropic organization Yield Giving.
The unrestricted donation will be able to transform the work the career-building nonprofit does in West Philadelphia, executive director Cait Garozzo said.
Then they continued: “MacKenzie Scott would like to give a $4 million, one-time donation to the West Philadelphia Skills Initiative,” Garozzo recalled them saying.She started jumping up and down in excitement; her colleague fell into a chair in disbelief. The whole office erupted into applause after they shared the news, and that Friday afternoon they toasted with a bottle of champagne they found in their kitchen, raising a glass to their future.
The amount of the donation, coupled with it being unrestricted, is transformative for the organization’s goals, Garozzo said. “A lot of philanthropic dollars, and public dollars, can’t go toward some of the biggest barrier-removal needs that folks have,” Garozzo said. “So we want to be able to use that money to do what we think is right as we support people getting connected to their careers.”
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