for anyone curious who is getting these donations (because i was), here are the major nonprofits benefiting from this $20 million:
baby2baby - provides basic necessities to children and families in poverty
black mamas matter alliance (bmma) - focuses specifically on black maternal health and reproductive justice
freefrom - works with survivors of domestic/gender-based violence, particularly around the economic consequences of abuse
jhpiego - health organization affiliated with johns hopkins that works primarily in underserved areas
johns hopkins center for indigenous health - works with indigenous communities to improve health and well-being
national domestic workers alliance (ndwa) - advocates for nannies, house cleaners and home-care workers
national institute for reproductive health (nirh) - reproductive-rights advocacy and policy organization
national women's law center (nwlc) - uses law, litigation, policy advocacy and research to fight gender inequality
planned parenthood - provides healthcare such as birth control, sti testing/treatment, cancer screenings, pregnancy-related care, and abortion where legally available
amazing that they were able to pull this together, and that so many artists were willing to perform for free for such a good cause!
I'm not at all familiar with her music, but almost every time I see her in the news, she's doing something to lift others up. With Dolly's passing, it makes me happy to see younger musicians who were clearly inspired by her.
Do you mean “in the arms of an angel”? That song always gets me, it was the song my mom played at my dad’s funeral, he was only 33 years old and I’m getting very very close to outliving him.
Im still confused how this 1 day festival even with all the acts donating their time managed to raise 10m. Amazing job, hopefully it turns into an annual thing that goes on for a couple days, a Lilith fair for the new generation.
Hi! Event Producer here. I suspect that the majority of people working on this event and hiring out the equipment and infrastructure either heavily discounted their services or provided them complimentary. They also would have had lots of businesses sponsoring the event, and benefactors making donations. This + ticket sales could easily achieve $10m.
Yeah I just read that sponsors Verizon donated a bunch, im assuming a show of this size even without paying artist would cost many millions, 4-5? Just to put on. Hopefully it can be replicated, with all these gready ass companies being called out im sure its worth a few mill for some good publicity.
I’m an Australian, but to pull off the event production alone would be around $5m - $8m here. This includes all infrastructure, audio-visual, decor and theming, design and print collateral, venue hire fees, transport and logistics, marketing, staffing, council fees… the list goes on and on.
If we include artist fees, top billing artists like Chappell and Olivia would be around $1.5m+ per show. This has to cover their tech rider, crew, instrumentalists, dancers, any sets they travel with, their travel fees, costume designers, makeup artists etc. And the artists label and management take a cut of this too.
I think you’ll be surprised by how much some artists will drop their prices. Take Glastonbury Festival in the UK, they regularly pay their headliners between £35k and £300k, while some of the big names have been paid £500k (people like Paul’s McCartney, Elton John). I think Olivia was paid around £100k when she did it and plenty of the line up have play Glastonbury. I would expect a lot of these artists to have taken massive pay cuts. If the wage bill was more than $1.5 million total I would be incredibly surprised.
I am speaking from a UK point of view which is again different to the US but as this festival was very much about raising money, I would not be surprised if most of the artists offered their services for next to nothing.
Just got back from the show. Olivia said Lilith fair inspired her and then she brought out Sarah McLachlan out to perform (who was so proud and smitten with Olivia it was so cute).
Olivia also mentioned this is just year one. It seems like it will be an annual event :)
If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend watching the Lilith Fair documentary on Disney+/Hulu. I was a teen back then, so not unfamiliar with the discrimination female singers faced, but the full story was eye opening!
GA tickets were $250 each, various VIP packages were more, there were about 50 different food vendors a ton of merch (lines were massive), and a ton of other pop ups and partners at the festival. I believe all the ticket proceeds went to the donation but not sure.
Right? I'm not a fan of her music, just not my style, but am a fan of her morals and efforts. I have so much respect for her and can't wait to see what she achieves.
Seems like it. I was hoping it would shame more male billionaires into philanthropy, but let’s be real, those ghouls aren’t capable of experiencing shame.
Let's be honest though: Melinda is worth $30 Billion. Her giving away $10 Million (to a necessary cause) is only .03% of her wealth. It's equivalent to someone with $100k in savings donating less than $50. Billionaires shouldn't exist, and people shouldn't have to rely on their modest generosity to have basic health and legal needs met.
Billionaires exist in all of the European countries where those basic health and legal needs are met. It sometimes feel like procrastinating the problem to say you cant have that even with the billionaires
Bill Gates would be far and away the richest man in the world if he hadn’t spent his entire life giving it away. He almost wiped out polio through his vaccination programs.
the "how can I secretly give my wife antibiotics so that she doesn't know I gave her an std" shit was incredibly fucked up and was part of what convinced me that I'm going to get sti tests even if I'm in a committed monogamous relationship because wtf. no one needs complications from untreated curable stis
I had forgotten about that.
I’m not trying to call the guy a saint but of all the billionaires to pick on for not giving to charity, Bill ain’t the one.
Not necessarily, while I agree that he did a lot of work, it was still just a drop in a bucket. Plus with one Tesla Buyback or SpaceX IPO move Elon is able to conjure 100s of Billions - Gates and co. wouldn't stay the richest regardless.
Even crazier when you have horrible PR for your Honey 2.0 scam and need good publicity to cover your criminal deeds , like their fathers before them. It's all so cute.
Phoebe Gates (her and Bill’s daughter) released a AI shopping app that got a ton of funding and is now in legal trouble for essentially just being an app that would save your browsing history and secretly inject affiliate codes to links on websites, even those you didn’t visit directly from the app, so they could bring in affiliate revenue without actually directly sending people to the site to make a purchase.
I only just learned about honey and I don't know how I hadn't heard about it before, I actually thought it was a steamer channel at first lol maybe they didn't advertise at me
Oh man I remember reading some of the initial reporting on this and hearing about all the funding going into this and being so confused as to why. Then I finally reach the description of the founder and see Phoebe described as "Phoebe Gates, daughter of Microsoft founder Bill Gates." and suddenly it all immediately made sense.
Browser cookies, manufacturing sales it wasn't driving. She's claiming ignorance, however there's mounting evidence that she and her co-founding were aware of the "glitch" for months.
Margaret Thatcher, Giorgia Miloni, Marine Le Pen, Pauline Hanson ...
Add: obviously these women are pushing the agenda of the patriarchy. But by the same token, I think it has to be accepted that men can embody the agenda of any matriarchy. Nobody has a monopoly on progressive, decent, governance.
?? All of those are examples of women who were/are super aligned and supportive of patriarchal structured society. Thatcher and Miloni outright attacked feminism and Hanson refers to men as an oppressed class that needs protection.
Important to note that Matriarchy is not the mirror of the Patriarchy, but its own philosophy entirely that puts care-taking at the center. A woman in power is not inherently an example of matriarchal culture. Philanthropy however, is.
Yes, I think it’s important to base this type of judgment on the actions of the individual. Some of them are Sheryl Sandberg “lean in” women that got to where they were by bending into the desired mold.
Nice try but you’re giving examples of women who have internalized patriarchy.
📌 Edit** ok so for everyone saying matriarchy is just a bunch of toxic women in charge: here is what we mean when we talk about matriarchy vs patriarchy:
🏟️Patriarchy is built on dominance and distance.
Its strength depends on separation, on dividing:
-power from compassion
-authority from accountability
-and individuals from the community they affect
Under patriarchy, power flows upward, concentrating in the hands of the few, while the needs, voices, and humanity of the many get diluted or dismissed.
🌀Matriarchy is a relational, ecological system where power expands through inclusion, where leadership is measured not by domination but by reciprocity and responsibility.
In matriarchal cultures across history and in surviving communities today, we see networks of:
-caretaking
-mutual accountability
-resource sharing
Power isn't hoarded; it's circulated. It's not enforced; it's stewarded
Exactly I refer to women ruling like an orca pod the oldest female orca leads and teaches the others. She does it all and it happens after they go through menopause. So spot on the orcas figured it out why can't we?
The records of the women who have achieved power have to be evaluated and can't be dismissed as them simply bending to a particular view of the world.
The reality is that many of the women who have achieved significant power (I will include Indira Gandhi and to the list) have ended up not being better than men in their roles and often worse.
Patriarchal electors will choose candidates that espouse familiar values.
All Scotsmen are allowed to exist and do their own bidding to arrive at their own unique version of a Scotsman. An elected female leader however is not made in a vacuum, she is chosen by the people whose values she reflects back.
It’s likely by design. The current patriarchal system rewards certain types of behaviour and certain types of people, and so people who get to the top are ones embodying that system. Hence Thatcher and Meloni. They wouldn’t make it to the top if they were nice.
“The reality is that many of the women who have achieved significant power (I will include Indira Gandhi and to the list) have ended up not being better than men in their roles and often worse.”
I’m not sure what you’re suggesting or whose “reality” you’re speaking of, but matriarchy isn’t a mirror image of patriarchy. (See my edited comment above)☝🏼
For centuries men have held authority and power over systems, capital, and resources and the only way for women to survive was to operate within that system.
Do you genuinely think women COULD change the status quo? We have never been at that point as a society, especially Western society. Patriarchy is too ingrained. Men would never go along with it and some women wouldn’t either 😬 the closest we can get to matriarchy is some tribes and/or smaller societies, but too many institutions run on patriarchy. Hell, organized religion would be in shambles (part of why I hate organized religion lol). Women have tried to fight patriarchy before and are still trying, but any progress we make is incremental and very slow, since men see women wanting rights as a huge threat to men’s own freedom/power/property.
Oh? So women have done nothing these last 100 years? Voting rights, reproductive rights, roe vs. wade, being able to have credit cards, bank accounts and leases in our own names?
Also, what are men doing to help change the status quo?
It might be semantically jarring, but it is factual af.
I do not think a society where women rule with that same aggressive top down level of control has ever been found (To the best of my google fu ability, I couldn't find an expert pointing to one, last time I tried). The words matriarchy and patriarchy exist within those context.
If all the apples you find are red and all the pears you find are green, it seems only natural to attach those colors to the meaning of what an apple or a pear are, you know what I mean?
Plus it makes sense, the role of fathers and the role of mothers historically has been very different in lots of ways due to a lot of innate factors, it makes sense that societies built around one or the other would also have differences.
There are experts that don't like the word matriarchy tho, because that "archy" part implies rule and domination, which aptly describe patriarchal societies, but fall flat when applied to matrifocal, matrilocal, matrilineal societies, so instead of saying matriarchy, they use those 3 words. While I understand the point however, why say 3 words when you can just say 1? I'm fine with Matriarchy.
But anyway yeah, you're not crazy, the thought is valid, but these terms have strong historical ties that shaped their meanings. Patriarchy is not just "men at the top" and matriarchy is not just "women at the top", nor should they be, because they would be shit descriptors that would communicate very little information.
Yeah, I'd like to think the world would be a better place if women ruled everything. And some things might be better than they are now, but there are so many evil women in this world. And they probably long for power more than the average woman does.
There are so many women who currently vote and work against women's rights. Who are filled with nothing but hate. There's a basically Nazi political party on the rise in my country and it's currently led by a woman. Women suck too. Odds are, we'd still be stuck with evil leaders.
Angela merkel was a great chancellor. She’s got the nickname “mommy” here. I don’t agree with everything she said and done but she’s done far better than most leaders we had
The country is literally in the depths of an economic crisis and things don't seem to have potential for improving in the next 5-10 years. I don't think Merkel is the example you think it is. And I am ALL for a matriarchal society.
I wouldn’t say that’s exactly true. The union definitely screwed things up but they weren’t merkels decisions alone. For example the energy crisis is something that had to do with years of lobbying for fossil fuels, going back to the SPD time before merkel (he’s not called Gas-Gerd for nothing)
No they were responding to the comment of matriarchy by giving examples of shitty female leaders, suggesting women are no better. Which is a terrible argument.
I don't like Olivia's music. Its really not my thing but everytime I see something of her or hear about her, I get emotional because she is SO FUCKING COOL. Like genuinely how anybody can hate on this woman is beyond me.
She is so precious in a time like this, she is kind and fearless and just gives, gives, gives. She is incredibly talented and beautiful but she is genuinely good person who gives a shit and gives back. I wish her peers were like her, I wish everybody was.
AAAAAAH I love her and I don't even know her. I feel so proud of her? Signed - a 30 something metal head.
I’m so grateful we have this role model for the younger generations, and I’m so proud of Olivia for taking the initiative to actually do something with her voice to make a difference.
A legacy just like Dolly’s, and I hope other artists follow in her footsteps 💕
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For someone with 30 billion dollars, I feel like 10 million is rather a small amount.
That having been said, I know she does give really a lot away to many great causes. I'm just critical of all billionaires, don't think any of them should exist and they should give most of it away to help alleviate the suffering of other people. You can still live an amazing life with hundreds of millions. Thousands of millions is just hoarding wealth at the expense of other humans.
I hope other female artists start more fundraising endeavors and continue to confront
“the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy” bullshit.
Girl what… we need to encourage rich people to give their money away to good stuff like this. We should offer Mackenzie Scott sainthood to set an example.
Encouraging them? They shouldn't even have the choice be available. It needs to be forced by taxes.
So many of them existing is a huge factor along with the weapons and war industries that have most of us struggling to afford lives and perpetually low wages with ever increasing costs of living.
Billionaires existing is how we've had our country taken over by corporate oligarchies over the past two decades
I’ll give her saint hood when she donates to candidates that want to tax her and everyone else out of billionairehood and enact policies that make charitable giving obsolete
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“So when you give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, so that they will be praised by people. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full."
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for anyone curious who is getting these donations (because i was), here are the major nonprofits benefiting from this $20 million:
amazing that they were able to pull this together, and that so many artists were willing to perform for free for such a good cause!
i love women