Funding Change with Charitable Support

Thank you PAW for your fascinating article on MacKenzie Scott! As a 99-year-old alumnus determined to donate almost all my assets to the cause of system change, Scott’s example confirms my relatively miniscule efforts. Though she gives her billions to established organizations, however small, I think she’d excuse me for negotiating a new research project jointly with two burgeoning low-budget organizations: the Albert Einstein Institution on nonviolent conflict, and Next System Studies at George Mason University.

I hope Princeton will excuse me for diverting this legacy to those small programs, which might otherwise have gone in part to our exceedingly better-funded university whose president, Christopher Eisgruber, leads academia against authoritarian bullying.