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Charities are trying to make the most of the event by lengthening its duration, teaming up with colleagues, and changing how they talk about giving.

Some $46 billion flowed to working charities last year, and now more money is available even as the stock market has been on a rollercoaster and could dampen charitable giving.

Worry that the gifts would lead other donors to pull back their support or that small groups wouldn’t be able to handle the money were largely unfounded. Plus: MacKenzie Scott’s Giving Total Is Now Over $13 Billion

Scott released names of more than 1,200 charities that she supported with big gifts over the past seven months.

The Amazon founder whose “real-time” worth Forbes magazine estimates at roughly $124.1 billion, didn’t specify how — or to whom — he will give away the money but said he and his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, were building the “capacity” to do it.

Companies often used to rely on partnerships with big nonprofits, but today many of them typically allow customers to make gifts to any organization that has received charity status from the IRS.

Plus, a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve supports a D.C. neighborhood museum. Also, two universities, the National Gallery of Art, and a health-care system in Utah all land big gifts.

DAFs don’t need fixing and aren’t used by wealthy people to warehouse their money, former foundation president argues.

Also, the Hershey Trust Company has hired a new CEO and chief investment officer to oversee its $20 billion endowment, and Georgia Levenson Keohane will serve as CEO of the Soros Economic Development Fund, the impact-investment arm of the Open Society Foundations.

The lawsuit cites an 1878 agreement with the state of California to create and fund the law school, which promised Hastings’ heirs $100,000, plus interest, should the school ever “cease to exist.”