| 17/12/2020 – 21:18 (GMT-4)
Over the past four months MacKenzie Scott has given $ 4.158 trillion to 384 charities spread across the 50 U.S. states, its capital Washington DC and Puerto Rico, the co-owner of the Amazon empire explained in a post. the Medium platform.
The fate of such a fortune is none other than to alleviate the economic needs of families who have been damaged by the Covid-19 pandemic and are part of this society that at some point helped to grow the company led by his ex-partner, Jeff Bezos.
It’s not the first time Mackenzie has had such a gesture. By July it had already ceded $ 1.68 million to nonprofits. This time, he invites his advisers to help him “accelerate” his contributions to those affected.
The same month he had written: “Last year I pledged to return most of my wealth to the society that helped generate it, to do it with care, to start early and to keep doing it until that the safe is empty “.
“Like many, I saw the first half of 2020 with a mixture of anguish and horror. Life will never stop finding new ways to expose inequalities in our systems; or waking up to the fact that such an unbalanced civilization it is not only unfair but also unstable, ”he warned.
Through the huge donations, Mackenzie focuses mostly on the benefit of the sectors most affected by the pandemic, including women, black people, and those who have lived in poverty.
Jeff Bezos became the first person to reach $ 200 billion in human history, precisely in times of pandemic, by the gigantic online sales flow of his Amazon platform, with increases of up to 13,000 millions in a single day.
To leave this fortune in the best hands, the philanthropic team relied on the search for suggestions and perspectives from hundreds of field experts, sponsors and leaders, and nonprofit volunteers with decades of experience.
Thousands of pages of data analysis on community needs were included, as well as hundreds of emails and telephone interviews. The achievements of nonprofits and their capabilities were also emulated in the process.
Scott founded Amazon alongside her ex-husband in the garage of the house they shared in New York, as an online bookstore, and is currently the richest woman on the planet with a total of $ 674 billion in her fortune. staff. His estate grew by 81 percent since August 2019, shortly after he signed his divorce with Bezos.
The billionaire details that the donation includes food banks, emergency aid funds “and support services for the most vulnerable.” The money will also support legal defense funds “that assume institutional discrimination.”
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