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NCOA Gets $8M Gift From Scott

The NonProfit Times

One of the few known gifts in the latest round of giving by author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott was an $8-million gift to the National Council on Aging (NCOA). It’s the largest unrestricted gift in the 72-year history of the organization. based advocacy group, which announced the gift today.

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Charitable Giving in Higher Education: A Conversation with CASE’s Sue Cunningham

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Still, the sector enjoyed an average gift amount of $1,671—the highest of any social good subsector. We expect some change at institutions year over year, as philanthropy is both an art and a science, and often a significant gift will come in and an institution cannot necessarily expect the next year to have that same scale of a single gift.