MacKenzie Scott gives $70 million to UNCF to financially strengthen HBCUs

MacKenzie Scott gives $70 million to UNCF to financially strengthen HBCUs

NEW YORK (AP) — Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, as the nation’s largest private provider of scholarships to minority students works to raise $1 billion to strengthen all 37 of its historically Black colleges

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