The next wave of philanthropic courage is overdue. We need the next billionaire—or board of trustees—brave enough to say: we don’t need another five-year strategy to fix inequity. We just need to fund the people solving it right now.
While MacKenzie Scott has moved billions, the silence from corporate America and traditional philanthropy is deafening. Diversity pledges have turned into anti-DEI PR campaigns. Multimillion-dollar commitments made in 2020 have quietly expired, buried under quarterly earnings calls and leadership changes.
