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MacKenzie Scott
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Dec 14, 2022

Bridges and Barriers

The process of building a website has been a strange one for me. Who is it for? the people helping me build it asked reasonably. What do you want them to do? Anybody. Nothing. Why are you doing it? friends asked when they saw me scratching my head. A good…

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Bridges and Barriers
Bridges and Barriers

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Nov 14, 2022

Of and By

There is a poem by Gwen Nell Westerman that inspires me by shutting me up every time I read it. I had to close my laptop for a couple of days before writing this very short post. Over the last seven months, with the help of my team, I gave…

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Of and By
Of and By

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Mar 23, 2022

Helping Any of Us Can Help Us All

The increasing stridency of opinions in the news can be divisive. But lately I’ve heard something different in it. Turned up so loud, all I can notice is how similar it all sounds. The universal tendency to shout is an ironic reminder of how much we all have in common…

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Dec 10, 2021

No Poetry This Time

Disclosures, self and otherwise — A follow-up to an essay I published Wednesday: I’m a slow writer and a private person, so maybe it’s fitting that a postscript on the value of sharing information begins with that confession, and ends with three screenshots from my laptop that tell a story it might otherwise take me…

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No Poetry This Time
No Poetry This Time

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Dec 8, 2021

No Dollar Signs This Time

Sometimes what’s going on in the world or in my work brings a line of poetry repeatedly to mind, but just as often it’s a single word. Lately the one I keep turning over is “philanthropy.” It’s not a word I have ever loved or identified with. A lifetime of…

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Jun 15, 2021

Seeding by Ceding

Sitting down to write this post, I felt stuck. I want to de-emphasize privileged voices and cede focus to others, yet I know some media stories will focus on wealth. The headline I would wish for this post is “286 Teams Empowering Voices the World Needs to Hear.” People struggling…

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Dec 15, 2020

384 Ways to Help

Emily Dickinson lived much of her life isolated in a single room, and I’ve found her poetry coming to me a lot this year. Though her isolation was voluntary, I doubt it was easy. Her room overlooked a cemetery, and many of her poems are focused on death. As the…

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Jul 28, 2020

116 Organizations Driving Change

Last year I pledged to give the majority of my wealth back to the society that helped generate it, to do it thoughtfully, to get started soon, and to keep at it until the safe is empty. …

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MacKenzie Scott

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