Jeff Bezos, has donated $1.7 billion of her personal fortune to charity, she said in a blog post on Tuesday.Her charitable contributions make good on her signing of The Giving Pledge in May 2019, vowing to donate most of her wealth to philanthropic causes over her lifetime.
She wrote -- under MacKenzie Scott, the name she now uses — that the $1.7 billion was distributed across organizations committed to racial and gender equity, economic mobility, public health, climate change and more.
Scott said she enlisted a team of nonprofit advisers with representation from marginalized communities to help her identify the most effective charities to fund. «I began work to complete my pledge with the belief that my life had yielded two assets that.