New York, United States:
MacKenzie Scott, one of the world’s wealthiest girls, announced Tuesday a new round of big charitable donations totaling $2.7 billion for educational, neighborhood and other nonprofit organizations.
The ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who has pledged to give away the bulk of her fortune from their divorce settlement, mentioned in a weblog post she was donating to “286 high-impact organizations in categories and communities that have been historically underfunded and overlooked.”
The announcement marked the third round of significant donations from Scott, whose fortune is estimated at some $59 billion and who previously gave some $6 billion to hundreds of groups and institutions.
Scott, who has eschewed the concept of producing a foundation and as an alternative has relied on a group of advisers to recognize grantees, mentioned the work is motivated by a need to address expanding inequalities.
“People struggling against inequities deserve center stage in stories about change they are creating,” Scott wrote on Medium.
She mentioned she and her group “are all attempting to give away a fortune that was enabled by systems in need of change. In this effort, we are governed by a humbling belief that it would be better if disproportionate wealth were not concentrated in a small number of hands, and that the solutions are best designed and implemented by others.”
The unrestricted grants will go to a wide variety of organizations in education, the arts, social action, kid advocacy and other causes.
They contain Amarillo College in Texas, the Apollo Theater in New York, the Children’s Defense Fund, Decolonizing Wealth Project, Filantropia Puerto Rico, Inner-City Muslim Action Network, Jazz at Lincoln Center, PEN America Writers’ Emergency Fund and Ubuntu Pathways.