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2026 50 Over 50: Impact
Forbes • • business
Key Points:
- Angelique Albert, CEO of Native Forward Scholars Fund, secured a landmark $50 million unrestricted donation from MacKenzie Scott in 2025, tripling the number of Native students served and awarding $400 million in scholarships to over 20,000 students from 500 tribes.
- Laurene Allen co-founded the National PFAS Contamination Coalition after discovering toxic PFAS in her town's water, playing a key role in establishing the first federal PFAS drinking water standards in 2024 and ending contamination from a major plastics plant.
- Shorlette Ammons became co-executive director of Farm Aid in 2025, continuing the organization's mission to support family farmers and serving on the board of the Land Loss Prevention Project to aid Black farmers in North Carolina.
- Dale Anglin, inaugural director of Press Forward since 2024, has raised over $400 million and established 40 chapters nationwide to revitalize local news access amid widespread newspaper closures and news deserts.
- Anousheh Ansari, CEO of XPRIZE Foundation, leads large-scale scientific competitions with prizes exceeding $100 million each to accelerate breakthroughs in climate, health, and water scarcity, catalyzing over $31 billion in follow-on investments.
