Abigail Disney urges donors to be braver about their giving and shouldering more risk WSOC TV [Video]

MIAMI BEACH, Florida — (AP) — Activist and philanthropist Abigail Disney urged donors and the leaders of major foundations and nonprofits to be braver with their giving, especially at a time when more are fearful about speaking their minds.

“The people who speak up against their own self-interest are becoming very, very important,” Disney said Tuesday at the opening panel of The Elevate Prize Foundation’s Make Good Famous Summit in Miami Beach, Florida. “The people in philanthropy are the people who need to be speaking up … What we are experiencing is nothing compared to the risk that people of color, Indigenous people, immigrants are experiencing every single day in this country.”

Disney told The Associated Press in an interview before the panel that she planned to be more outspoken because “everyone has been so quiet since the election.” Many question why major donors and foundations have not reacted faster …