12/12/2023
First congratulations to the organizations that were funded. I'm happy to see some organizations that I know are doing amazing work in some communities where I've lived and worked. I do confess myself disappointed to see no domestic AIDS Service Organizations or LGBTQ organizations on the list of orgs funded by MacKenzie Scott's recent "Open Call." Of over 6,000 organizations that applied and the many LGBTQ and ASO's that I know of that applied not one got through????? I know we write good grants, I know we do good work, I know we serve people with needs, I'm curious about the process that "Yields" such a glaring omission.
The increasing stridency of opinions in the news can be divisive. But lately I’ve heard something different in it. Turned up so loud, all I can notice is how similar it all sounds. The universal…
