A California community college is investigating how part of the unrestricted donation was used.

Santa Barbara City College has blown more than half of MacKenzie Scott’s $20 million donation — the largest the college has ever received — on a program that wasn’t properly approved. About $10.5 ...

MacKenzie Scott’s giving patterns are changing. The mega-philanthropist donated more than $7.1 billion last year — the most money she’s ever given to charitable causes in one year. A new analysis of ...

Career advice typically focuses on resumes, promotions, titles, and paychecks. But MacKenzie Scott has a different idea about what makes for a successful career, arguing that jobs are less about ...

Scott's gift marked the largest in Santa Barbara City College's 112-year history Franziska Krug/Getty; John Zhen/Shutterstock. In 2021, Santa Barbara City College received a $20 million gift from ...

On January 30, MacKenzie Scott donated $59 million to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), nearly doubling the $30 million gift she made to the organization in 2022. “This is a remarkable ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed Lisa Scott-McKenzie as the city’s next commissioner of the Department for the Aging, tapping the public hospital system veteran on Tuesday to oversee hundreds of health ...

MacKenzie Scott is keeping to her word and donating a majority of her wealth. The former wife of Jeff Bezos has an ongoing streak of charitable donations and isn’t stopping anytime soon. On Jan. 30, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2021, Santa Barbara City College received a $20 million gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, the largest donation in ...

Santa Barbara City College recently revealed that it used a portion of a $20 million gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott without proper authorization. The Santa Barbara City College Foundation ...

TULSA, Okla. — The nonprofit Community HigherEd Institute (CHEI) entered 2026 $16 million richer thanks to a couple of big gifts from philanthropist Mackenzie Scott. $11 million was given to Oklahoma ...