Daily News | MacKenzie Scott gave $5M to Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia as part of a $436M gift for affordable housing
The"transformational" grant is the largest one-time gift Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia has ever received.
“And in one 15-minute phone call ...” O’Connell said, trailing off, still in disbelief about a month after receiving the news. Having worked in fund-raising for 25 years, she said, “you hear about this sort of thing happening, but it happened.”The philanthropist and author gave a total of $436 million to Habitat for Humanity International and 84 U.S. affiliates. As with Scott’s previous gift giving, she deferred to the recipients to speak about the grants, according to Habitat.
With Scott’s gift, O’Connell said she feels like an organization that has had to paddle with paper cups has gotten a motor on its boat.“Speaking on behalf of the larger housing network, this gift signals there’s a real recognition there is a housing crisis and that we need to put a lot of resources into it,” she said.
“This is not some fluke,” she said. “We’re at this milestone moment because of what volunteers and homeowners and donors did 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago.”
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