Five years after Giving Pledge signatory MacKenzie Scott awarded a total of $55 million to Morehouse and Spelman colleges and Clark Atlanta University (CAU), the schools have leveraged those funds to bolster a wide range of existing programs and solidify long-term goals, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. Scott awarded the unsolicited “no-strings-attached” gifts to Atlanta’s top-tier historically Black colleges and universities in the wake of the racial reckoning that followed the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Morehouse and Spelman colleges each received $20 million and CAU $15 million. Morehouse allocated its gift to the development of a 58,000-square-foot campus center to serve as a hub for innovation, collaboration, and community. Estimated to cost
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