Overview
- Rodrigo announced at a press conference on Friday, Aug. 28 that Daisy Chain Fields had generated $10 million in net proceeds to benefit ten named nonprofit partners.
- During her headlining set on Saturday at Great Park in Irvine, philanthropist Melinda French Gates pledged a $10 million match through Pivotal, doubling the total to $20 million.
- Organizers said 100 percent of net proceeds and all artist performance fees were pledged to the festival’s impact work, and the money will be distributed across the ten partner groups.
- Beneficiaries include Planned Parenthood, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Baby2Baby and the National Women’s Law Center, with on-site ‘Philanthropy Village’ and ‘Daisy Lane’ activations designed to connect attendees directly to services and volunteer opportunities.
- Rodrigo framed the festival as a mix of music, education and activism that builds on her prior reproductive-rights work and could boost funding for clinics and support services facing legal and financial pressures nationwide.