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teasel
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posted December 15, 2020 11:17 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for teasel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55313522

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posted December 16, 2020 10:19 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for iQ     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
She was too good for Bezos!
What a Noble Heart! Hope her investments mulitply. Wealth with good Human Beings is Wealth for the World.

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posted December 16, 2020 04:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mirage29     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has donated more than $4bn (£3bn) to food banks and emergency relief funds in four months."

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- http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Bezos,_MacKenzie

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American novelist and billionaire,
the third richest woman in the world as of 2019.

. .
In 2014, she founded the anti-bullying organization "Bystander Revolution," where she serves as executive director.

In 1993,
MacKenzie Tuttle married Jeff Bezos,
who later became the founder and CEO of Amazon,
making them the richest couple in the world.

They have four children:
three sons, and one daughter adopted from China.

They announced their intent to divorce on 9 January 2019, and on 4 April 2019 the divorce was finalized.
In April 2019, she announced on Twitter that
she had reached a $35 billion divorce settlement,
making her the third richest woman in the world.
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QUOTE BBC

"This pandemic has been a wrecking ball in the lives of Americans already struggling," she wrote in a blog post on Tuesday,
adding that she had picked more than 380 charities to donate to
having considered almost 6,500 organizations.

"Economic losses and health outcomes alike
have been worse for women,
for people of color
and for people living in poverty.
Meanwhile, it [the pandemic] has substantially increased the wealth of billionaires."

Ms.Scott donated $1.7bn
to 116 charities in July
saying she wanted to call attention to
"organizations and leaders driving change."
This takes her total donations for the year to almost $6bn.

Donations were focused on those "operating in communities facing high projected food insecurity, high measures of racial inequity, high local poverty rates, and low access to philanthropic capital."

Last year she signed the *Giving Pledge*, promising to give away the majority of her fortune.
The Giving Pledge is a commitment by the world's wealthiest individuals and families to dedicate the majority of their wealth to giving back.

"I have a disproportionate amount of money to share,"
she wrote in her pledge.

"We leveraged this collective knowledge base in a collaboration that included hundreds of emails and phone interviews, and thousands of pages of data analysis on community needs, program outcomes, and each non-profit's capacity to absorb and make effective use of funding," she wrote.

- http://www.bbc.com/news/business-55313522

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The Giving Pledge
- http://givingpledge.org/


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Bystander Revolution
- http://www.bystanderrevolution.org/

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_Revolution


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Simple acts of kindness, courage, and inclusion anyone can use to take the power out of bullying.

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