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Bloomberg Spotlights MacKenzie Scott's $65 Million Donation to LISC
An article in Bloomberg highlights MacKenzie Scott’s recent unrestricted grant-making to nonprofits, including a $65 million gift to LISC. Unrestricted gifts like this, in addition to Scott’s 2020 donation of $40 million, allow LISC to intensify and build upon its work with a more flexible and innovative approach. As our CEO Michael Pugh noted to …
New OTR meeting space Kiwavi HQ blends community, diversity and creativity
We all need a place. Not just any place, but one where we belong. Where we can be ourselves, do creative work and even be vulnerable and real with colleagues. This place didn’t exist for Jared Simmons, a longtime Cincinnatian originally from Alabama. So he built it.
Planting Seeds: How Carol Ruffin Is Growing a More Inclusive Floral Industry in Cincinnati
“I want to plant that seed.” That seed is taking root thanks to grants Carol received from United Way of Greater Cincinnati’s Black Empowerment Works (BEW). It invests in Black-led, grassroots ideas and programs that might not qualify for, or may traditionally have been left out of, other grant programs. The BEW grants make it …