Philanthropist Melinda Gates participates in AOL s BUILD Speaker Series at AOL Studios on Tuesday, March 10, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
• Philanthropists MacKenzie Scott and Melinda French Gates joined forces Thursday to give $40 million to four organizations that promote gender equality. The recipients were part of the Equality Can t Wait Challenge, which was announced last year by Scott and French Gates and also funded by billionaire Lynn Schusterman s family foundation. The projects winning $10 million each were selected from a pool of more than 500 applicants working in fields including technology, education, care-giving and indigenous communities. An additional $8 million was split between two finalists. The awardees are strong teams working on the front lines and from within communities to help women build power in their lives and careers, Scott said in a statement. French Gates said she hoped the funding would help break the patterns of histo
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