Mackenzie Scott, the former wife of Chapter Amazon Jeff Bezness, announced the intention to translate $ 2.74 billion dollars to various organizations. In his personal blog, she wrote that help will receive 286 structures.
According to Scott, the organization selected it personally along with her husband and team of researchers and consultants. Attention was focused on those public areas that are usually neglected – this education, the fight against religious and ethnic discrimination, culture.
she explained his desire that he wants to distribute a state for the purposes that suggest changing systems, thanks to which it was obtained. Mackenzie Scott called the unfair situation in which the greatest wealth is concentrated in the hands of a small number of people.
The former spouse of a beza received as a result of a wicked process in 2019, 36 billion dollars – this is a quarter of Amazon shares. The court decision allowed her to take the 15th place in the list of US richest people in 2019. In the late 2020, due to the growth of the company’s shares, Scott exceeded 60 billion dollars.
She signed a petition about the intention to distribute most of the money, and in 2020 transferred to various organizations of the order of six billion dollars. Then the recipients were 30 higher educational institutions, more than 40 food banks and 380 charitable organizations.