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Jeff Bezos gives 40 grants worth $123 million to fight homelessness


Jeff Bezos is do his first donation since Amazon the founder pledged last week to give away most of his net worth, estimated at 116 billion USD.

On Tuesday, the Bezos Day One fund announced $123 million in grants to 40 organizations across the U.S. The Foundation said it hopes the donation will “help families transition from homelessness to permanent housing with services that they need to achieve stability.” The Day One Fund, launched in 2018, is Bezos’ $2 billion commitment to help homeless families and build preschools in low-income areas.

Bezos vows to give away most of his fortune to girlfriend Lauren Sánchez in a marriage CNN interview 12. At the time, neither Bezos nor Sánchez gave specifics about where they planned to raise the money.

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Bezos is slower to announce his philanthropic plans than other billionaires, like Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett.

Gateway to the beginning of this year commit to “give almost all of his wealth” to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, promising to “go down and eventually off the list of the richest people in the world.”

Bezos hasn’t signed yet For commitmentthat’s the promise of hundreds of the world’s richest people to give away most of their wealth during their lifetime.

Bezos made the biggest donation of 2020: one Commit 10 billion USD more than 10 years to fight climate change. Bezos and Sánchez have also funded other philanthropists, such as a recent $100 million donation to Dolly Parton, which was earmarked for the singer’s own charity. “We couldn’t think of anyone better than giving this award to Dolly,” explains Sánchez on CNN on 12 November.

In me CNN In the interview, Bezos tried to explain his slower approach, suggesting that he wanted to make sure the money was used “in a leveraged way.” The Amazon founder added that “there are so many ways… that you can do things that don’t work” with large donations.

A few days after Bezos’ interview, Mackenzie Scott, the richest woman in the world and the ex-wife of the Amazon founder, announced on Medium that she gave away $2 billion to nearly 350 organizations in just seven months.

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