Sharing the wealth! Following a pledge to present away part of her fortune to charity, billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, just lately donated a mixed overall of greater than $700 million to nonprofit organizations Deliberate Parenthood and Habitat for Humanity.
The ladies’s healthcare supplier introduced that Scott donated $275 million to its nationwide workplace and 21 associates. Her reward is the biggest the 100-year-old staff has ever gained from a unmarried donor. “This beneficiant reward additionally comes at a time when get admission to to sexual and reproductive well being care is below assault like by no means earlier than,” Deliberate Parenthood stated in a March 23 remark, “particularly get admission to to abortion.”
An afternoon previous, Habitat for Humanity that Scott had donated $436 million to the gang. “With this donation, Habitat is well-positioned to meaningfully recommend for the systemic and societal adjustments had to give a boost to equitable get admission to to inexpensive housing,” Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity Global, stated in a remark.
