In a letter to the editor published in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Rise Up founder and executive director Denise Raquel Dunning reflected on recent criticism of MacKenzie Scott’s giving and how philanthropy can do more good by following Scott’s lead:
"As the founder of Rise Up, a nonprofit that recently received funding from Scott, I know firsthand that donors like her, who are not part of the philanthropic mainstream, enable us to expand our work and advance systemic change in previously unimaginable ways….By trusting and putting power into the hands of the organizations she supports, Scott is expanding philanthropy’s potential to create lasting change.”
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