The latest recipients range from universities to refugee resettlement groups to arts and culture organizations that have suffered from a drop in giving as donors focused on more urgent needs brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. “Because we believe that teams with experience on the front lines of challenges will know best how to put the money to good use, we encouraged them to spend it however they choose,” she wrote.

She has an estimated net worth of 36 billion. That effort included “equity-oriented” nonprofits working in long-neglected areas. MacKenzie Bezos has ranked on Forbes Billionaires List for the first time ever. Unfortunately, the couple announced their divorce in 2019 after a prolonged period of separation. They fell in love and got married in 1993, and moved to Seattle together, from where Bezos started Amazon.

Similar to the organizations she picked as recipients last year, Scott said the 286 organizations chosen for Tuesday’s announcement were selected from a rigorous process of research and analysis. Bezos met his former wife MacKenzie Scott (nee Tuttle, formerly Bezos) in 1992 before he started working on his dream project.

In 2020, Scott made two similar surprise announcements in which she donated a combined $6 billion to COVID-19 relief, gender equity, historically Black colleges and universities and other schools. As our family and close friends know, after a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends, the couple said in a. “In this effort,” she said, “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.”

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