The foundation disclosed the unauthorized use of funds for its Promise program; $13 million of the original $20 million gift remains.

Her 2025 giving hit $7.1B, with fewer grants but far larger checks driving her most ambitious year yet. By pouring resources into repeat partners and global and environmental causes, she’s signaled a ...

The men leading the agencies central to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown appeared before lawmakers Tuesday for the first time since federal officers killed two Minnesotans, taking ...

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 ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed Lisa Scott-McKenzie, a longtime employee of the city’s public hospital system, to serve as commissioner of the Department for the Aging, tapping her to ...

By Lindsey Lam, February 10, 2026 Interim President Iris Levine announced a $20 million investment to improve Cal Poly Pomona over a three-year period at February’s Academic Senate meeting. This ...

MCKENZIE, Ala. ( WSFA) - Melissa Scott was hired on to complete a big task — build up the pre-K program at McKenzie School. She started that process decades ago, and years later, she’s still there, in ...

On Jan. 30, it was announced that the use of the $20 million MacKenzie Scott grant gifted to City College was used without authorization toward the Promise Program.  After receiving billions in stock ...

Acts of charity she received as a student in university often spring to mind when Scott is deciding where to donate money.

MacKenzie Scott was the nation’s top philanthropist in 2025 and ranks third behind Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and Melinda ...

Divorced from Bill Gates and the foundation they created, French Gates discusses connecting with other women to maximize their impact at a critical time.

Scott turned Annie Dillard’s lessons in writing into lessons in philanthropy. MacKenzie Scott helped build one of the most recognizable companies in modern history—all while writing her first novel.