Posted on 03/08/2021 7:25:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind
MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist, author and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has married a Seattle science teacher. Dan Jewett made the announcement in a letter to the website of the nonprofit organization the Giving Pledge on Saturday.
Jewett said he never imagined he would be in a position to talk about giving away significant wealth during his lifetime in order to make a difference in other people's lives. He expressed gratitude "for the exceptional privilege it will be to partner in giving away assets with the potential to do so much good when shared."
Jewett has been a teacher for decades and most recently taught chemistry at the private Lakeside School, where Scott's children attended.
"And now, in a stroke of happy coincidence, I am married to one of the most generous and kind people I know - and joining her in a commitment to pass on an enormous financial wealth to serve others," Jewett wrote.
After donating $1.68 billion to 116 nonprofits, universities, community development groups and legal organizations last July, Scott asked a team of advisers to help her "accelerate" her 2020 giving with immediate help to those financially gutted by the pandemic.
Scott went on to donate a total of $5.7 billion in 2020 by asking community leaders to help identify 512 organizations for seven- and eight-figure gifts, including food banks, human-service organizations, and racial-justice charities.
She was listed as No. 2 among the 50 Americans who gave the most to charity last year, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy's annual rankings.
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“Scott went on to donate a total of $5.7 billion in 2020 by asking community leaders to help identify 512 organizations for seven- and eight-figure gifts, including food banks, human-service organizations, and racial-justice charities.”
“Community leaders”, “racial-justice charities”...take a wild-assed guess. This foolish, idiotic woman will blow through her fortune in no time.
It’s her money and she is making it faster than she can give it away.
He can always shim it up.
Think about it. Jewett is speaking here about all the money that the ex-husband of his new wife earned. This just seems more than a little bit emasculating.
I’d rather be poor, conservative, and happy, than to be married to a liberal nut.
No wonder she married him look at the beak on that guy.
She is throwing away the money. Giving it to another group who will spend it on salaries for themselves. She could give direct to people and it would do much better.
Henry Ford II was a conservative person.
Robert McNamara was not.
The Ford Foundation became a social club for the high and mighty - a perspective from some of the children (a daughter in particular) of Henry Ford II.
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