Peaceprints of WNY and PUSH Buffalo will each get unrestricted $2 million gifts from billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, who has vowed to scatter most of her fortune across grassroots groups and foundations focused on America’s greatest needs.
“This gift has the potential to transform Erie County’s re-entry landscape,” Peaceprints CEO Cindi McEachon said Tuesday in announcing one of Scott’s latest grants.
It was the largest gift in the nonprofit organization’s nearly 40-year history and among more than $20 million the woman who helped Jeff Bezos create Amazon already had showered on helping agencies in Western New York.
Health Foundation for Western & Central New York announced that it will use money from MacKenzie Scott for the first time to give grants to six rural health networks in the Buffalo and Syracuse regions that focus on addressing those realities.
Peaceprints focuses on helping those who are imprisoned reintegrate into society after they have served their sentences. The nonprofit has always been ambitious with its projects, McEachon said, but limited resources often have hindered them.
PUSH Buffalo is rooted in community organizing and activism to benefit neighborhoods and seek quality affordable housing. Its mission also…
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