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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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On a positive note, evidenced by the history we have seen through six decades of the CASE VSE, philanthropic giving roughly mirrors the stock market, so the strength of the stock market over time has buoyed educational philanthropy. Still, the sector enjoyed an average gift amount of $1,671—the highest of any social good subsector.