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Does MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy Really Change Anything?

THE ‘GOOD’ WITCH

America’s richest woman is famously generous, but how much does she effect social change? Compare Andrew Carnegie, whose bequests to libraries profoundly changed the nation’s life.

A photo illustration showing grids of money and MacKenzie Scott
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