MacKenzie Bezos together with her soon-to-be ex-husband Jeff Bezos.
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MacKenzie Bezos mentioned Tuesday she plans to provide away at the very least half her large fortune.
Bezos, the soon-to-be ex-wife of Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos, joined the Giving Pledge, an settlement amongst among the world’s wealthiest individuals to donate at the very least half their cash to charity of their lifetimes or of their wills. She is ready to develop into one of many world’s richest individuals, value about $37 billion, as soon as her divorce is finalized in a couple of month.
Jeff Bezos, who’s the world’s richest particular person, with a $114 billion fortune, has not joined the pledge.
“Along with no matter belongings life has nurtured in me, I’ve a disproportionate sum of money to share,” MacKenzie Bezos wrote in her Giving Pledge letter. “My strategy to philanthropy will proceed to be considerate. It is going to take effort and time and care. However I will not wait. And I’ll preserve at it till the secure is empty.”
The Giving Pledge talked about her work together with Jeff Bezos in donating to marriage equality, most cancers analysis, housing for the homeless and faculty scholarships for undocumented immigrants.
MacKenzie’s determination to affix the pledge presents some further clues about what she plans to do together with her fortune when her divorce is accomplished. Bezos, who will obtain 25% of Jeff Bezos’ Amazon shares, has mentioned little publicly up to now about what she plans to do with the cash.
After being a minor participant within the charity world for many of his profession, Jeff Bezos in September unveiled the Day One charitable fund, with an preliminary funding of $2 billion to help nonprofits targeted on homelessness and to create a brand new community of preschools in low-income communities.
MacKenzie Bezos joined greater than 200 different people and couples who’re participating within the Giving Pledge, which was began in 2010 by Invoice and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett. Invoice Gates is listed because the second richest particular person on this planet and Buffett is the fourth, in line with the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
