Amazon’s multibillionaire and cheapskate Jeff Bezos cheated on his beautiful wife,
MacKenzie Scott, and they got a divorce. In the settlement, she got a lot of money and promised to donate a chunk of it to charity. She kept her promise, and yesterday she announced that she donated $1.7 billion to 116 charities.
Last fall, Scott asked a team of non-profit advisors to find the best organizations that work with historically marginalized race, gender, and sexual identity groups for her to give her money to. Nearly a year later, the list is done and a promise kept.
We need more wealthy people like her, Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, who use their money to help others and not just themselves. You know billionaires like her ex and Donald Trump.
To see the current list, then
A Call to Men
ACEGID & Broad Institute — Sentinel
Advancement Project
All Our Kin
American Indian Graduate Center
Asian Americans Advancing Justice — AAJC
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
Black Girls CODE
Blackbird
Blue Meridian Partners
BRAC — Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiatives
Camelback Ventures
CAMFED
Campaign Legal Center
Capital Impact Partners
Center for Election Innovation & Research
Center for Policing Equity
Centering Healthcare Institute
Co-Impact
Collective Future Fund
College Track
Common Cause Education Fund
Community Change
Crisis Text Line
Echoing Green
Educate Girls
Encore.org
END Fund — Deworming Innovation Fund
Energy Foundation China
Energy Foundation US
Equality Can’t Wait Challenge
European Climate Foundation
Facing History and Ourselves
Family Independence Initiative
Fast Grants
First Nations Development Institute
Forward Together
Fund for Trans Generations
Futures Without Violence
George W. Bush Presidential Center
GirlTrek
GiveDirectly — U.S. Response and Africa Response
GLSEN
Grameen America
Grantmakers for Girls of Color
Greater Good Science Center
Groundswell Fund
Hampton University
Harlem Children’s Zone — COVID-19 Relief and Recovery
Highlander Research and Education Center
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
Hope Enterprise Corporation
Howard University
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Independent Sector
Interfaith Youth Core
International Trans Fund
Jackie Robinson Foundation
Lambda Legal
LatinoJustice
Leadership Conference Education Fund
Living Goods + Last Mile Health — COVID-19 Response
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Low Income Investment Fund
Millennial Action Project
Morehouse College
Movement for Black Lives
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Narrative 4
National Center for Lesbian Rights
National Congress of American Indians
National Domestic Workers Alliance
National Urban League
National Women’s Law Center
Obama Foundation
One Acre Fund
One Fair Wage
Opportunity Fund
Othering and Belonging Institute
Oweesta Corporation
Partners in Health — StopCOVID
PFLAG National
Point Foundation
PolicyLink
Posse Foundation
Potential Energy Coalition
Project Echo — COVID-19 Response
RAINN
SAGE
Seattle Foundation — COVID-19 Response Fund
Share Our Strength / No Kid Hungry
SIRUM
Solutions Journalism Network
Southern Coalition for Social Justice
Southerners on New Ground
Spelman College
State Infrastructure Fund
State Voices
StoryCorps
The Nature Conservancy — Blue Bonds & US Climate Action
The On Being Project
The Opportunity Agenda
The Trevor Project
TheDream.US
Thorn
Thurgood Marshall College Fund
Transgender Law Center
Tuskegee University
UNCF (United Negro College Fund)
UnidosUS
United Way of King County — Community Relief Fund
Voter Engagement Fund
W. Haywood Burns Institute
With Honor
World Central Kitchen — Oakland
Xavier University of Louisiana
