| 17/12/2020 – 9:18 PM (GMT-4)
In the past four months, MacKenzie Scott donated $ 4,158 and a half million dollars to 384 charities spread across the 50 states of the United States, the capital Washington DC and Puerto Rico, the Amazon empire co-owner explained in a publication on the Medium platform.
The fate of such a fortune is nothing but to alleviate the economic needs of the families damaged by the Covid-19 pandemic and who are part of that society that at one point runs the business, led by its ex-partner , Jeff Bezos, helped grow. .
It’s not the first time Mackenzie has made such a gesture. By July, it had already donated $ 1.68 billion to nonprofits. This time, she invites her advisers to help her “speed up” her contributions to those affected.
The same month he had written, “Last year I made a commitment to return most of my wealth to the society that helped generate it, do it carefully, start early and carry on until the vault is empty. “
“Like many others, I looked at the first half of 2020 with a mixture of fear and horror. Life will never stop finding new ways to expose the inequalities in our systems; or awaken to the fact that such an unbalanced civilization is not only unfair, but also unstable, ”he warned.
With the huge donations, Mackenzie is largely focusing on the benefits of the sectors most affected by the pandemic, including women, people of the black race and those who have lived in poverty.
Jeff Bezos became the first person to reach $ 200 billion in human history, precisely in a time of pandemic, thanks to the massive flow of online sales from his Amazon platform, rising to 13,000 million in just one day.
To get this fortune in its best hands, the philanthropist team relied on seeking suggestions and insights from hundreds of field experts, funders and nonprofit leaders and volunteers with decades of experience.
Thousands of pages of data analysis on the needs of the community were included, as well as hundreds of emails and telephone interviews. The performance of the nonprofits and their capabilities were also pursued in the process.
Scott founded Amazon with her ex-husband in the garage of the house they shared in New York as a platform for selling books on the Internet, and is currently the richest woman in the world with a total of $ 67.4 billion in her fortune. in person. Her estate has grown 81 percent since August 2019, shortly after she signed her divorce from Bezos.
The billionaire says the donation includes food banks, emergency relief funds “and support services for the most vulnerable”. The money will also contribute to legal defense funds “that tackle institutional discrimination”.
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