Blasting outrageous wealth, MacKenzie Scott donates another $2.7bn
The former wife of Amazon's Jeff Bezos has been praised for the speed and scope of her gifts, the groups she is giving to and for the no strings attached condition
15 June 2021 - 18:25
MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire philanthropist and Jeff Bezos’s former wife, has given $2.7bn to a variety of charities, she wrote in a blog post Tuesday, bringing her total donations since her first giving spree in July 2020 to $8.5bn.
Scott shook up the philanthropy world in 2020 with the pace and magnitude of her giving. This time she donated to 286 organisations from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre to racial equity funds in philanthropy and journalism. This is her first time announcing donations since she married Dan Jewett, a Seattle science teacher...
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