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Billionaire MacKenzie Scott once needed her college roommate’s help with a $1,000 loan: ‘That’s just what you do for friends’

Years later, Scott repaid the favor when Jeannie Tarkenton started Funding U, a lending company that offers merit-based loans to low-income students.

28.11.2025 10

James Pollard

‘If there’s no bottom rung on the ladder, it’s really hard to leap up’: Nonprofits focused on Gen Z employment get $25m Citi Foundation windfall

Citi Foundation identified youth employability as the theme for its $25 million Global Innovation Challenge this year.

21.10.2025 3

James Pollard

‘When our girls succeed, we all do’: Michelle Obama group pledges $2.5 million to adolescent girls’ education efforts

“We call ourselves ‘watoto wa Michelle Obama,’ which means ‘the children of Michelle Obama,’” said Jackie Bomboma of Tanzania.

11.10.2025 5

James Pollard

MrBeast leads online creators in $40 million fundraiser to build better quality water projects worldwdie

The monthlong campaign, touted as the biggest YouTube collaboration and called #TeamWater, promises to rally a combined 2 billion subscribers around...

04.08.2025 10

James Pollard

Gen Z and millennials are donating less to charity than Boomers—and it could worsen America’s ‘generosity crisis’

Fears of a “generosity crisis” have dogged nonprofit fundraisers for much of this century.

22.04.2025 5

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Billionaire MacKenzie Scott once needed her college roommate’s help with a $1,000 loan: ‘That’s just what you do for friends’

James Pollard

‘If there’s no bottom rung on the ladder, it’s really hard to leap up’: Nonprofits focused on Gen Z employment get $25m Citi Foundation windfall

James Pollard

‘When our girls succeed, we all do’: Michelle Obama group pledges $2.5 million to adolescent girls’ education efforts

James Pollard

MrBeast leads online creators in $40 million fundraiser to build better quality water projects worldwdie

James Pollard

Gen Z and millennials are donating less to charity than Boomers—and it could worsen America’s ‘generosity crisis’

James Pollard