Jeff Bezos has revealed how he plans to donate part of his fortune.
The Amazon CEO and his wife, MacKenzie, will commit $2 billion to fund existing nonprofits that help homeless families and to create a network of preschools in low-income communities. They call their project the "Bezos Day One Fund."
Bezos tweeted a statement Thursday that the fund will issue annual leadership awards to organizations "doing compassionate, needle-moving work to provide shelter and hunger support to address the immediate needs of young families." There will also be full scholarships for Montessori-inspired preschools in "underserved" communities, he said.
Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post and space exploration company Blue Origin, became the world's wealthiest person this year, with an estimated net worth of $164 billion, according to Bloomberg.
Helping the homeless has also been a focus for Amazon (AMZN). Earlier this year, the company partnered with the Seattle nonprofit Mary's Place to build a permanent homeless shelter in its headquarters. It previously helped the nonprofit temporarily house 200 homeless people.
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ChiCom ago
Schools in Florida actually hide kids from the (usually male) woke and protective parent after a divorce. a divorce is open season on young kids for pedophiles working in the court system
EffYouJohnPodesta ago
What do you mean schools hide them? Like they cooperate with the bad parent?
ChiCom ago
Very common. I've even seen where they will have a psych test done on the deranged low empathy parent to understand how to best game their personality to get access to the kid. I've seen financial kickbacks offered for Medicaid fraud and drug administration to help groom as young as 4yo
bulrush ago
In Michigan the state gov't gets kickbacks from the feds for any child support Michigan charges the man, so MI referees order the max child support in most cases. There was a social worker who spilled the beans on this one but her video was taken off YT.
3141592653 ago
Prozac can be especially effective for obsessive compulsive disorder, bulimia, and a couple others. It doesnt have to be a last resort choice. Sometimes its the best choice. Theres two sides to this whole story about medicating kids. A lot of kids are seriously ill. A lot of those actually aren't receiving any therapy or medication