Despite its name, this is really a non-governmental organisation, not a classic grant-making foundation, though there are plans to raise an endowment.

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The Indigo Trust, of which I am executive, is a grant-making foundation that funds technology-driven projects that bring about social change in Africa.

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Yowell, director of education grant-making at the MacArthur Foundation, in the Times interview.

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