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The Shawn Carter Foundation, founded by recording artist and entrepreneur Jay-Z and his mother, Gloria Carter, raised $20 million during its 20th anniversary gala, Billboard reports.

The foundation helps individuals dealing with socio-economic hardships pursue a postsecondary education. The foundation has provided college scholarships, study abroad opportunities, wealth-building programs and more for underserved youth and families from disenfranchised communities.

While several charity organisations operating in Africa, the need for knowledge regarding indigenous philanthropic organisations in each African country and what they do is challenging. This research seeks to identify these indigenous philanthropic organisations in Namibia, Malawi and DRC and investigate, among other things, their revenue and expenditure sizes as well as their philanthropic undertakings. A fully structured questionnaire is used as a data-gathering instrument and distributed through survey monkey.