The Girl Scouts are getting almost $85 million in a donation from MacKenzie Scott, their largest ever donation from an individual. The Girl Scouts of the USA have been in a downturn since the pandemic, according to Sofia Chang, the organization’s current CEO. Membership has suffered almost 30 percent since 2020, which had a serious […]
Sheryl Sandberg is donating $3 million to the ACLU for the fight for access to abortion. Sheryl Sandberg was the COO of Meta (aka Facebook) for 14 years until August this year. She’s also the founder of LeanIn.Org, an activism platform for women’s employment rights. And a billionaire, worth approximately $1.7 billion as of 2021, […]
Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard and family have donated their entire outdoorware company, worth ~$3B, to fight climate change. Chouinard went into the sporting gear business in 1957, when he began to sell mountain climbing gear forged in his own blacksmith shop to fund his rock climbing hobby. In 1973, he and his business partner Tom […]
James Patterson donates $5.3M to Howard University and other recipients after speaking about racism in publishing. James Patterson, who competes with Stephen King for the highest paid author and has sold more than 400 million copies of the several hundred novels published under his name, has been throwing money at the future of writing lately. […]
Adam McKay pledges to donate $4 million to the Climate Emergency Fund, to support calls for more aggressive action against climate change. Adam McKay, American film director, producer, screenwriter, and comedian, got his start in the 1990s writing sketch comedy for Saturday Night Live. Comedy still features heavily in his art, but his latest big […]
Cardi B surprised staff and students at her old middle school in the Bronx with a $100K donation, meant to expand tutoring and extracurricular options. Belcalis Marlenis Amanzar, better known as the singer/songwriter Cardi B, was born in New York City and grew up in the Bronx. As a teenager, she dealt with gangs and […]
A BLM executive is being accused of stealing over $10 million in funds from Black Lives Matter donors, according to a lawsuit filed by BLM Grassroots. Shalomyah Bowers was hired in 2020 by the movement’s founders to help run the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (GNF), the administrative organization meant to raise financial support […]
Nora Roberts has donated $50,000 to support the library of Jamestown Township after its community voted to defund it over LGBT books. In August, Jamestown Township voters rejected a vote which would have continued most of the Patmos Library’s funding, because the library refused to cull LGBT books from their collection. According to the library […]
Hamilton is donating the damages they won from a Texas church that put on an unlicensed, homophobic version of the famous musical. The Door Christian Fellowship Ministries from McAllen, Texas got caught up in the Hamilton craze, like the rest of us. But they took things several steps too far. On August 5 and 6, […]
Dollar General is donating $1 million to Feeding America to celebrate one year of partnership. Feeding America is a nationwide network of food banks, over 200 of them. As an organization, it’s the United States’ second large charity by revenue, and has a good reputation as a transparent, ethical charity. They receive support from all […]