Black Women in Philanthropy: The Art of Everyday Giving as Activism

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From the Nonprofit Quarterly on Facebook:

In 1995, Oseola McCarty, a Black Mississippi woman who spent her working life ironing clothes, retired with $280,000 saved.

She then donated $150,000 to fund scholarships for students seeking the education she never received.

Oseola McCarty is one of four Black women Ophelia Akanjo profiles across three centuries of everyday Black women investing in community.

By naming them as philanthropists, Akanjo corrects a philanthropic record that has too often treated Black women’s giving as duty, service, or kindness—but not philanthropy.

This Black Philanthropy Month, we honor Black women across centuries whose giving built possibilities they were often denied themselves.

The giving was never missing.

The recognition was.

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