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Jeff Bezos’ ex, Mackenzie Scott donates nearly $2B to hundreds of organizations

Jeff Bezos’ ex, Mackenzie Scott donates nearly $2B to hundreds of organizations

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Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has made another round of donations as part of her pledge to give away her billions.

 

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In a blog post on Monday, Scott said in the last seven months, she gave nearly $2 billion to 343 organizations supporting people from underserved communities.

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The donation has brought Scott’s total to at least $14.5 billion since she pledged to give away most of her fortune in 2019 after signing the Giving Pledge — a commitment to give away most of a person’s wealth to philanthropy in their lifetime. Since signing the pledge, Scott has become one of the leading philanthropists in the US.

Billionaire philanthropist Mackenzie Scott announces she has donated nearly $2 billion to hundreds of organizations in the last seven months. File photo by Clemens Bilan/EPA-EFE/

Scott’s most recent donation focused on funds, which she described as a “great resource” to support. “They pool donations and spread them across a diverse group of smaller organizations working toward a common cause,” she wrote in the Medium post. “The funds we picked look for teams with lived experience in the issues they’re addressing.”

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Some of the organizations included in this round of contributions are GLAAD and the Native American Community Centre. In October, Scott donated $84.5 million to the Girl Scouts.

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In an interview with CNN, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos revealed he plans to give away the majority of his $124 billion net worth during his lifetime to causes like fighting climate change.

Scott is worth $23.2 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Her divorce from Bezos in 2019 made her a billionaire mainly because of her 3% stake in Amazon, per reports.

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