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MacKenzie Scott Just Gave Away Another $640 Million. Here’s Where the Money Went

MacKenzie Scott, Billionaire ex-wife of Amazon's Jeff Bezos just gave away another $640 million in gifts of $1M to $2M to 361 nonprofit groups.

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Mackenzie Scott Donates 0 Million To Nonprofits

MacKenzie Scott donates 0 million to 361 nonprofits, part of her ongoing philanthropic efforts to support marginalized communities in the US.

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Elon Musk Deletes Charity Critic Post Targetting MacKenzie Scott After It Goes Viral

Elon Musk deleted a post criticising MacKenzie Scott's charity donations, but it spread online before disappearing.

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Jeff Bezos Net Worth 2024: Amazon Founder's $172.3B Wealth Set To Soar Atop Blue Origin Rockets

Jeff Bezos is the third-richest man in the world today, behind Elon Musk and Bernard Arnault. Here's a look at his net worth and where it could be in 2024.

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MacKenzie Scott surprised a nonprofit with a $2.2 million donation it didn’t even apply for, as the billionaire continues to give away the bulk of her wealth

A small nonprofit in Cincinnati thought the email bearing the good news was spam at first.

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MacKenzie Scott Donates $6 Million to Voto Latino, Which Focuses on Increasing Youth Turnout

The philanthropist and ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has pledged more than $2.1 billion to 360 recipients

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Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott reveals the groups that got some of her $2.1 billion in gifts in 2023

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott gave $2.1 billion in donations since November 2022, she said in an online post, bringing her total reported giving to more than $16 billion since 2019

The Independent UK

The OpenAI meltdown shows that when nonprofits and for-profits clash, the one with the money usually wins

The ongoing spectacle puts a new twist on an old question: Can nonprofits and for-profits really work together effectively?

Fortune

SoCal housing is so unaffordable that billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has made yet another multi-million dollar donation to fix the problem

Scott donated $15 million to Culver City, Calif.-based Century Housing.

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How Joan Kroc's surprise $1.8 billion gift to the Salvation Army transformed 26 communities

First-class recreation centers in low-income neighborhoods — dozens of them, scattered around the nation

The Independent UK

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Chicago Sun-Times

Summer Science Program spent $2 million last year serving 204 students. Then, they got a $200M gift.

A small nonprofit, Summer Science Program, has puzzled for much of the last year over what do to with a surprise bequest of an estimated $200 million

The Independent UK

Aunt Martha’s Health and Wellness gets surprise $9 million donation from MacKenzie Scott

Aunt Martha’s Health and Wellness, which serves over 105,000 children and adults each year, learned last month that it had “garnered the attention of Ms. Scott and her team.”

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Afternoon Edition: CPD vows to root out officers with extremist ties

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MacKenzie Scott breaks donation record at another Chicago nonprofit

Cara Collective said the one-time, unrestricted $8 million gift is the largest donation in the organization’s 30-plus-year history.

Fortune

San Francisco’s housing market is so broken that billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott made 2 major real-estate donations in a month

MacKenzie Scott, one of the world’s richest women, is on a mission to ease housing affordability in California, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Independent UK

Multi-million dollar lawsuits and irreconcilable differences: The most expensive celebrity divorces

Celebrity divorces are frequently the subject of mass media scrutiny, as former couples attempt to fairly divy up their millions, or even billions, worth of assets. Honey Wyatt takes a look at some of the most high-profile cases in recent years

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San Francisco’s ‘real estate apocalypse’ has the attention of billionaire MacKenzie Scott—just look at her latest donation

“The time to act is now before the predicted ‘real estate apocalypse’ makes all Bay Area land and housing so astronomically expensive that it is beyond the reach of any social policy intervention,”

The Independent UK

MacKenzie Scott gave 17 nonprofits $97 million in the first half of 2023

MacKenzie Scott’s quest to give the bulk of her wealth to charity continues

The Independent UK

MacKenzie Scott's $250 million open call for donations yields applications from 6,353 nonprofits

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott’s first open call for grants yielded 6,353 applications from nonprofits — meaning candidates have at least a 4% chance of being selected for a $1 million grant

The Independent UK

Lauren Sanchez previously revealed hardest part about being in a relationship with Jeff Bezos

Couple have reportedly gotten engaged after nearly five years together

Daily Mirror

Jeff Bezos' unlikely romance with new fiancée Lauren Sanchez amid divorce and affair rumours

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in now engaged to former Fox News anchor Lauren Sanchez after five years, but their relationship had a rocky start as it was claimed the pair had an affair

The Independent UK

MacKenzie Scott sets new 'open call' to donate $250 million

MacKenzie Scott is launching a $250 million “open call” for community-focused nonprofits that the billionaire philanthropist can fund

The Independent UK

Bill Gates joins 26 newcomers on list of 50 biggest donors

As the ranks of America’s super wealthy grow, the roster of major philanthropists is expanding to include not-so-typical megadonors — among them, a professional clarinetist, a Ph.D. in meat science, and a lawyer who regularly argues before the U.S. Supreme Court

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