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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I bet Dan quit his job recently.
It would be interesting to see what organizations and causes all that money has gone to and will go to.
From the picture, Dan has some resemblance to Jeff Bezos.
Reading what he had to $ay, probably not. Unle$$ it’$ to help mac give her money away to lib project$. Pretty much guaranteed ZERO dollar$ will go to any con$ervative $cammer$. $o much money, $o little brain$. But $he i$ an author I hear.
It’s their money, so it’s none of my business. Which should be everyone’s opinion.
Good luck to them.
Leftist you can be sure
Few non profits are not
And those that aren’t are run by leftists intent on changing it
Look at the Ford Foundation
Was Henry a lefty....Hell he was alt right before there was alt right
Do you think they had a PRENUP ?
(sarc)
“Ms.Bezos gave a generous gift of $6 billion to charity in 2020.”
Her amazon stock went up $35 billion in 2020-easy to give away 6 billion and still make an aditional $29 billion.
All smoke and mirrors.
Just a notch or two higher in the looks dept. IMO.
Social Justice Giving = Useful idiots.
“From the picture, Dan has some resemblance to Jeff Bezos.”
From all reports Jeff Bezos had a huge schwang...huge as in huge. Hope old Mr. Jewett is not just average.
“...racial-justice charities...”
That’s the racist scum BLM filth and others like it, probably.
Signing the foot-tall prenup among them lol.
How long do you give them?
I say 15 months.
I wonder what that prenup looks like
Seems a bit quick. But it’s all good. It’s quite possible that Dan is down to earth and is a great guy. Jeff Bezos is an amazing businessman, obviously. But we all know that he is an asshole. You have to be in order to be a good businessman. It’s a cutthroat game. Survival of the fittest.
Well, that explains why he is such a dick.
Add/subtract hair and they’re twins.
RE: But we all know that he is an asshole. You have to be in order to be a good businessman. It’s a cutthroat game. Survival of the fittest.
I have three different reasons for thinking he is one:
1. He cheated on his wife who sacrificed to help him start his successful business.
2. His Washington Post has been part of the fake news cabal for the longest time. Injecting money into this piece of propaganda outlet just tells us where his values are.
3. His Amazon Web Services deplatformed Parler for simply being
a social media platform for non-liberal posters.
Tells me everything I need to know about him.
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