Girl Scouts Get $85 Million Historical Donation (news)

  Girl Scouts Get $85 Million Donation From MacKenzie Scott MacKenzie Scott, known for historic billion-dollar donations continues to change nonprofits’ fortunes, this time with an $85 million donation to the Girl Scouts of USA. The donation is the single largest donation in the organization’s history since its founding in 1912, and will help the organization recoup a loss of programming and membership as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to reporting from KUSA.com. According to the report, only 2% of philanthropic giving in the United States goes directly to programs expressly interested in serving women and girls. Youth membership in the Girl Scouts dropped nearly 30% in the first year of the pandemic. Read more ➝   Summary   Gates Foundation boosts GivingTuesday with $10M donation | AP NEWS Bill and Melinda Gates are chopping funding for reading, writing and the arts to plow $1 billion into math education instead | Fortune  Police Complaints in This Indian District Are Going on the Polygon Blockchain | @coindesk Countering an Authoritarian Overhaul of the Internet | Freedom House Avoggedon strikes Philadelphia: One nonprofit gives away thousands of avocados NPR.org