MacKenzie Scott捐出7,000万美元：美国印第安学院基金推出七年计划支持原住民学生
美国印第安学院基金（American Indian College Fund）10月29日在 Colorado 州 Denver 宣布，慈善家 MacKenzie Scott 通过其捐赠机构 Yield Giving 向该基金捐出7,000万美元无限制用途赠款，基金将以这笔资金为支柱推出一项为期七年的计划，扩大对原住民学生与部落学院、大学的支持。这是该基金五年来第二次收到 Scott 的捐赠，也是金额最大的一笔。
根据基金公布的计划，这笔资金将用于扩大部落学院与大学的奖学金项目，并配套提供升学成功辅导、健康与学业资源、实习、职业评估和导师支持，帮助学生从入学走到毕业、再走进职场；同时支持家庭友好型校园建设与体现原住民文化的健康项目。部落学院一端将获得师资发展、机构能力建设、文化与环境课程、研究和治理培训等方面的支持。计划还安排2,000万美元注入一个指定捐赠基金，并投入形象推广项目，以保证七年之后支持仍能延续。基金表示，计划制定前先倾听了原住民学生、部落学院与大学校长、社区成员和理事会的意见。
基金总裁兼首席执行官 Cheryl Crazy Bull 说，这笔捐赠带来更多资源，让基金在支持原住民学生与部落社区的既有成绩上继续前进；她表示，奖学金与文化上贴近的支持项目和机构配套，原住民学生才能毕业并进入职业生涯、服务自己的社区，并感谢 Scott 的信任。
基金与 Brookings 今年8月发布的报告指出，美国慈善投资中投向印第安人地区的比例不到1%，联邦投入也已回落到疫情前的不足水平。美国人口普查数据显示，美国印第安和 Alaska 原住民成年人中拥有学士或以上学位的占16%，而全国平均为33%。基金的研究显示，获得奖学金之外支持的学生，毕业并进入职场的比率高出1.5倍。
美国印第安学院基金成立于1989年，是全美最大的支持原住民高等教育的慈善机构，37年来累计提供超过4.34亿美元的奖学金、项目与部落学院支持，其中2025至26年度提供超过2,600万美元奖学金和其他学生支持，并支持全美34所经认证的部落学院与大学。
MacKenzie Scott Gives $70 Million: American Indian College Fund Launches Seven-Year Plan for Native Students
The American Indian College Fund announced on October 29 in Denver, Colorado, that philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, giving through Yield Giving, has made a $70 million unrestricted gift to the fund, which will anchor a new seven-year plan to expand support for Native students and tribal colleges and universities. The gift is the second, and by far the largest, that the fund has received from Scott in five years.
Under the plan, the money will expand scholarship programs at tribal colleges and universities (TCUs), paired with college success coaching, wellness and academic resources, internships, career assessment and mentoring, and will strengthen student pathways from college to careers, a family-friendly campus initiative and culturally reflective wellness programs. Tribal colleges will receive support for faculty development, institutional capacity, curriculum, research and governance training. The fund will also put $20 million into a designated endowment and fund visibility projects to sustain its work beyond the seven years. The fund said the plan was built by listening first to Native students, TCU presidents, community members and its board of trustees.
Cheryl Crazy Bull, the fund's President and CEO, said the gift provides more resources to build on its history of supporting Native students and tribal communities, noting that pairing scholarships with culturally relevant support helps Native students graduate and enter careers serving their communities, and thanked Scott for her trust in the fund and its mission.
A report released in August by the fund and Brookings found that less than 1% of U.S. philanthropic investment serves Indian Country, while federal investment has reverted to pre-pandemic levels of underfunding. U.S. Census data show that only 16% of American Indian and Alaska Native adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, compared with 33% nationally. The fund's research shows its scholars graduate and enter careers at a rate 1.5 times higher when they receive support beyond scholarships.
Founded in 1989, the American Indian College Fund is the nation's largest charity supporting Native higher education. In its 37 years it has provided more than $434 million in scholarships, programs and tribal college support, including more than $26 million in scholarships and other student support in 2025-26, and it supports the nation's 34 accredited tribal colleges and universities.
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图片来源：图：Montana 州 Pablo 的部落学院 Salish Kootenai College 校园建筑与 Mission 山脉，该校是美国34所部落学院与大学之一。Djembayz 摄，Wikimedia Commons，CC BY-SA 3.0。 / A building at Salish Kootenai College, a tribal college in Pablo, Montana, with the Mission Mountains behind it. Photo by Djembayz, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
