MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, announced that she has donated $ 3.8 billion to 465 charities since June, choosing organizations that she said “support the needs of underrepresented people from groups of all kinds “.
The gifts include a record $ 275 million donation to Planned Parenthood, which the health organization said “comes at a time when access to sexual and reproductive health care is under attack like never before.” especially access to abortion. ” States, including Texas, have passed restrictive abortion laws that critics say make it difficult for women in these regions to access essential health care.
In a Wednesday post in Medium, Scott said his donations are designed to help all kinds of people, noting that “helping any of us can help us all.” He noted that efforts such as investing in jobs and educational opportunities for women and girls are leading to stronger economic growth. About 6 in 10 of Scott’s charities are run by women, she added.
“We do not advocate for particular policies or reforms. Instead, we seek a portfolio of organizations that support the ability of all people to participate in solutions,” Scott wrote. “That means focusing on the needs of those whose voices have been under-represented.”
MacKenzie Scott says she donated more than $ 4 billion to charity in the midst of the pandemic
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Scott ranks 22nd richest person in the world with a fortune of $ 55 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index. Bezos is the second richest individual in the world, after Elon Musk, with a personal fortune of $ 188 billion.
Scott has become a force in philanthropy with her donations, which she has used to criticize the structures that allowed her and her ex-husband to build their fortunes. When he announced $ 2.7 billion in donations last Junehe noted that his charity “is trying to give away a fortune that was enabled by systems that need change.”
He noted that he has made gifts to 1,257 organizations since he began his promise “to give this money firmly and carefully.” Some of the organizations Scott gave in his most recent gift round include:
- American boys and girls clubs
- CARE: Relief efforts of Ukraine
- ClimateWorks Foundation – Drive Electric Campaign
- Code for America
- FoodCorps
- Guttmacher Institute
- Habitat for International Humanity
- National Aging Council
- National Resource Center for Indigenous Women
- Latin National Institute of Reproductive Justice
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America
- Urgent Action Fund – Urgent Response Fund for Ukraine
- Vera Institute of Justice
- Wounded Warrior Project
- Young People in Recovery
- In:
- Amazon
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