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Jeff Bezos’ ex MacKenzie reveals she’s donated $1.7B in 2020

Cheryl Hines by Cheryl Hines
July 28, 2020
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Jeff Bezos' ex MacKenzie reveals she's donated $1.7B in 2020

Amazon titan Jeff Bezos’s ex-spouse revealed Tuesday that she has given absent virtually $1.7 billion to nonprofits battling almost everything from racial and gender inequities to world-wide warming.

“Like several, I watched the initial 50 percent of 2020 with a combination of heartbreak and horror,” MacKenzie Bezos wrote in an open letter posted on the Net internet site Medium.

“Life will never ever stop finding new methods to expose inequities in our methods or waking us up to the fact that a civilization this imbalanced is not only unjust, but also unstable.”

MacKenzie — whose divorce from Jeff made her a person of the richest gals in the planet, with an believed fortune of at least $36 billion — pledged final 12 months to donate half her income to charity.

In her assertion Tuesday, the philanthropist stated a lot more than 115 charities she has offered funds to so considerably, which include every person from the Movement for Black Life, the Harlem Children’s Zone-COVID-19 Relief and Restoration and Hispanic Scholarship Fund to the Nationwide Women’s Law Heart, Obama Foundation and George W. Bush Presidential Heart.

“I started operate to total my pledge with the belief that my lifestyle had yielded two property that could be of particular worth to other people: the funds these units aided provide to me, and a conviction that people today who have encounter with inequities are the ones greatest equipped to style and design solutions,” wrote MacKenzie, 50.

“Last tumble, I asked a team of non-earnings advisors with important representation from traditionally marginalized race, gender, and sexual identification groups to assist me come across and evaluate corporations acquiring significant affect on a selection of triggers.

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“I’m submitting an update now simply because my personal reflection following modern events discovered a dividend of privilege I’d been overlooking: the focus I can get in touch with to corporations and leaders driving transform.”

She said she selected non-earnings based mostly on their “transformative work” in nine locations, including racial and gender equity, community wellbeing, international advancement and local climate change.

MacKenzie and Jeff divorced in July 2019.

Cheryl Hines

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