Echoing the private financing of public elections that critics saw as heavily favoring Democrats in 2020, some of America’s richest foundations are pouring money into a similar effort again, in the face of more organized conservative resistance. A nonprofit group called the Audacious Project, whose supporters include the Gates and MacArthur foundations and the Bridgespan Group,…
Big Philanthropy Advances as a Big Player in the Private Funding of Public Elections
Zuckerberg ends controversial grants to election offices
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who in the 2020 election cycle flooded election offices across the U.S. with hundreds of millions of dollars in grants, will not be participating in such grantmaking this year, according to a spokesman. Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, made $419.5 million in donations to nonprofits—“Zuckerbucks” or “Zuckbucks” as some have…
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