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MacKenzie Scott is a philanthropist, author and the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, to whom she was married for 25 years. As part of their 2019 divorce, she received a 4% stake in the online retailer.
In May 2019, shortly after she announced the terms of the divorce on Twitter, she signed the Giving Pledge, promising to give away at least half of her wealth over the course of her lifetime.
In a website called Yield Giving, Scott shares details of the $16.6 billion (49% of her Amazon shares) she has given to nearly 2,000 nonprofits.
Scott employs a "no strings attached" style of giving, wherein the nonprofits to which she donates have full control over how to best deploy the new funds.
Scott, who has published two novels, was a student of author Toni Morrison at Princeton and worked as a research assistant for her.
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The donations mark the first time Scott has openly solicited applications for her money. She ended up giving away more than twice what she'd originally planned.
Scott’s donations, famous for being largely unrestricted and unsolicited, went to 360 nonprofits across at least 35 states as well as countries including Kenya, India and Brazil.
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