{"id":54165,"date":"2025-12-07T05:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/54165\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T05:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:17:14","slug":"mackenzie-scott-gifts-lincoln-university-of-pennsylvania-25-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/54165\/","title":{"rendered":"MacKenzie Scott gifts Lincoln University of Pennsylvania $25 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yieldgiving.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MacKenzie Scott<\/a> has donated $25 million to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lincoln.edu\/news\/2025\/12\/Mackenzie%20Scott%20Donation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lincoln University of Pennsylvania<\/a>, the university announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>This donation is part of a series of multimillion-dollar unrestricted donations to historically Black colleges and universities across the country from the billionaire philanthropist.  <\/p>\n<p>This marks the second time Scott has donated to the first-degree-granting HBCU. She gifted the university\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lincoln.edu\/news\/2020\/12\/philanthropist-mackenzie-scott-donates-20-million-lincoln-university.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$20 million in 2020<\/a>, bringing her contributions to the university to $45 million.<\/p>\n<p>Scott&#8217;s multimillion-dollar gifts are the largest donations in the history of the Chester County university. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lincoln University was founded to break barriers and create pathways for African Americans to thrive,&#8221; university President Brenda Allen said. &#8220;This investment honors that legacy and propels us forward, enabling us to build on 171 years of excellence and innovation. It is a powerful affirmation of the enduring value of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The university says the unrestricted $25 million gift will help support scholarships and initiatives that will benefit current and future students, faculty, and staff.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MacKenzie Scott has donated $25 million to Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, the university announced Friday. This donation is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1557,4509,227,10106,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-54165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-chester-county","tag-donations","tag-education","tag-historically-black-colleges-and-universities","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}