California College of the Arts (CCA) has received a donation totaling $4.7 million from three organizations—Gensler, Amazon, Z SUPPLY Foundation—and one anonymous benefactor. The generous sum of money will be used in part to fund three scholarship programs at the San Francisco–based CCA and to establish the M. Arthur Gensler Jr. Center for Design Excellence, a new initiative that aims at encourage diversity within the architecture industry, which has historically been a racially homogenous field.
The new M. Arthur Gensler Jr. Center for Design will provide scholarships, mentoring, and career counseling to CCA students with the goal of making design education more accessible and
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