Person

Laurene Powell Jobs

Founder of Emerson Collective.

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She founded Emerson Collective, an LLC, and plans climate giving through Waverley Street Foundation.

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Waverley Street Foundation Oct 2021 planned over ten years, $3.5B Scholarship & press 2
A 2021 report; the foundation’s later returns were not read.

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These 6 Major Funders Are LLCs, Not Foundations, Inside Philanthropy, 23 Apr 2026. Scholarship & press
Founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, Emerson Collective has backed important work, but is among the least transparent of the major philanthropic LLCs.
Who Will Get Laurene Powell Jobs’s $3.5 Billion Gift for Climate Work?, The Chronicle of Philanthropy (with the Associated Press), 18 Oct 2021. Scholarship & press
Philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs is gearing up to invest $3.5 billion in climate-focused initiatives in the next 10 years.
The spokesperson for Emerson Collective has said the $3.5 billion Powell Jobs will invest will go toward “initiatives and ideas to help underserved communities most impacted by climate change.”
From 2017 to 2019, the foundation funneled $185 million into a donor-advised fund, which is comparable to a charitable investment account.
lists its only direct gift as a $50,000 donation to a California-based environmental nonprofit.
Sometimes you have to be realistic about the fact that there are organized interests (including political actors and those supported by the fossil-fuel industry) that are opposing you and your philanthropic strategy. And therefore you might not want to hand them your playbook,

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