The "Where's Meghan" Question Has Been Definitively Answered ...

[MrsMaxDeWinter]

She's been busy!

I hope that those who expressed concern will be happy to know that she has been working with the Archewell team on their just released Impact Report.

Meghan and Harry are polarising figures but there is no doubt that they have galvanising power to get projects, both little and big, off the ground.

Harry, with William and Kate, was a co-founder of the Royal Foundation in 2011. They had a start-up fund of just under 5 million pounds, of which 1.3 million pounds was given away in grants.

10 yrs later, Harry and Meghan set up Archewell, with start up funds of 13 million dollars, and give away three million dollars in grants.

As with both foundations, the reserve is carried over.

The range of their projects is interesting, from working with the Vaccine Alliance to raise private sector contributions to distribute vaccines, endowing academic fellowships, working with partners in resettling refugees from Ukraine and Afghanistan, working with World Central Kitchens, to smaller projects like the Uvalde community playground and park and a really cute project to a small charity that gives free hair braiding to young black girls in Texas.

archewell.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/The-Archewell-Foundation-Impact-Report-2020-2022.pdf

I am so pleased for them, their advisors and staff as this is a dream start for any start up. I have long been sceptical that they may have spread themselves too thinly, so I am glad to see they are now focusing on just three areas, as they find their groove.

The racism on Mumsnet never surprises me. It is fairly constant.

Nashville is in Tennessee,
Also, both those projects are sexist. Boys have braids and men cook!

Are you part of their PR company? It certainly sounds like you are!

Well even more bizarre then that if your having to use places that provide 'charity' and 'help' to then bash other charities for doing the same isn't it. Which is my point of those on here who have been. If you don't like H&M keep it about them, don't then disparage the good work the foundation and charities they've funded to help people who need it. Imagine if one of those charities was a food bank, really going to sit there and bash the food bank for helping people with food...of course not but seems like a charity helping kids with their hair is of course perfectly okay to bash.

You know troll hunting is against guidelines?

I don’t believe that not understanding the value another culture places on something is racism actually. Time these divisive, purposely exaggerated claims were shoved back on in the way they deserve to be imvho.

If you scroll down this board you will see there are two active threads questioning her whereabouts. So you're wrong about that.

Nashville is in Tennessee,
Also, both those projects are sexist. Boys have braids and men cook!

So the Grenfell cookbook which gathered a group of Muslim women to celebrate their cultures and community through cooking while raising money was sexist, and a small charity that caters to black girls in an African-American culture in which girls braid their hair is sexist.

There is reaching, and then there is reaching. 😆

It's the fact that it was specifically stated that this is a charity that helps black children and the immediate response was mockery. It doesn't take much to ask questions respectfully, use Google or just not make stupid and offensive comments. Not understanding i.e. being willfully ignorant is less acceptable these days. Sorry if you find calling that kind of arrogant racism what it is, 'divisive'.

There is a Nashville Texas. www.texasescapes.com/CentralTexasTownsSouth/Nashville-Texas.htm

Have we had the - I don't see colour people here yet?

The charity works with homeless and very poor children. It gives them a hairstyle of their choice, a book, school supplies and some food.
It started from a woman who had been homeless after she had finished work, offering to braid kids hair for free if they need it. She saw a need, and did something about it.
It is a tiny charity that helps children. Just like the small charity in Britain that gives a free birthday cake to any family too poor to purchase or make one.
A lot of these tiny charities work with the most needy children. Homeless children for example, and in the US that can mean the children are sleeping on the streets. Small things can make a difference.

That's fantastic and yes small charities do make a difference and it's very good they get some support.

However I do wonder with the Sussex profile and funding why they aren't going founding something bigger and making more or a splash - but maybe that will come and they'll find their calling.

Very revealing. With apparently no thought as to what it might actually be doing and why it's important, just sarcastic "oooh, hair. How silly and pointless".

They raised a tonne of money for the Vaccine Alliance too ... including 25 million from Mastercard.

I said in my OP that they have worked on big capital projects as well as the smaller ones.

Posters who don't like them are tearing into the hair braiding charity for disadvantaged black girls but they have done a lot more.

Quite a pathetic amount. I'm sure they paid themselves huge retaining salaries.

They will be here soon, along with the "I don't care if you are black, white or polka dotted" brigade 😄

You do realise you sound like you are from their press office! You might want to spend a bit more time reading mumsnet to get a feel for what it would take to write a post that doesn’t sound like you are pushing a message out there for H&M.

@MrsMaxDeWinter I am sure you are right.

Yes exactly.

Did you make the same comment when the Royal Foundation raised 4.8 million and gave away 1.3 in its first year?

Do you understand that this is the first year of this start up foundation? And do you understand that in addition to their own grant making, they also raised millions for the Vaccine Alliance, including 25 million from one donor alone?

I mean, great that they’re doing worthy, moral things. I can look up their charitable work online if I want to. I just don’t understand the OP’s joyous investment in the matter. It’s like…….I dunno, she had a reason to suddenly write a random post praising it to the skies. Weird

there has been quite a bit of speculation on the matter. all very weird

I don't understand how foundations such as this make money?

Do they donate their own money?
Do they collect funds? How do they fund raise?

Is the foundation really about collecting money and then giving to the charities they choose?
Then looking all benevolent?

I always presumed foundations such as Gates largely used their own personal finances as a way for them to divest their huge wealth?

Could someone explain how it works?

The Royal Foundation makes detailed breakdowns of its finances publicly available, so we know exactly where the money is going.

This 'report', however, seems more concerned with posting photos of its glorious leaders and telling us how amazing they are, rather than providing hard financial data. How, exactly, do you know that "they also raised millions for the Vaccine Alliance, including 25 million from one donor alone?"

£2 million from a couple earning reported £100 million isn't that generous is it?

Person on £100 grand who gives away £2000 wouldn't get the same plaudits but is equally as generous.

Rich privilege to swan about looking benevolent with your largesse and believing it.