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In the tone of giving back, MacKenzie Scott—who walked distant with $35 cardinal successful assets aft her 2019 divided from Jeff Bezos—donated a immense portion of her luck to the Girl Scouts of the USA.
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MacKenzie Scott has earned her philanthropic merit badge.
Less than a period aft filing for divorce from her second Dan Jewett, the billionaire donated $84.5 cardinal to the Girl Scouts of the USA, according to an Oct. 18 property release.
This investment marks the largest donation from a azygous idiosyncratic successful the organization's past and volition be awarded to GSUSA and 29 section councils.
"We are truthful appreciative of MacKenzie Scott's acquisition to Girl Scouts," Girl Scouts of the USA CEO Sofia Chang said successful the release. "This is simply a large accelerator for our ongoing efforts to assistance girls cultivate the skills and connections needed to pb successful their ain communities and globally. We're excited to beryllium however Ms. Scott's concern successful girls volition alteration the world—because erstwhile 1 miss succeeds, we each succeed."
Scott—who was joined to Jeff Bezos from Tk to 2019—certainly has the currency to backmost up her pledge. In April, 52-year-old was named the fourth richest pistillate successful the satellite by Forbes, with her nett worthy reported astatine $43.6 cardinal astatine the time.
After her 2019 divorcement from Bezos, Scott walked distant with a chill $35 cardinal successful assets, including 25 percent of his Amazon stake, according to The New York Times. She and the erstwhile former CEO share 4 children.
Scott went connected to wed Jewett successful December 2021 but filed for divorcement little than a twelvemonth aboriginal connected Sept. 26, per tribunal documents obtained by E! News. According to the docs, the brace stock a written separation contract, which Scott is asking the tribunal to uphold successful their split. The separation contract—which was signed by Jewett days anterior to the divorcement filing—will beryllium utilized to disagreement their possessions, property, assets and debts, the docs stated.
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Scott's acquisition to the Girt Scouts' comes 7 months aft the billionaire philanthropist donated a combined full of much than $700 cardinal to nonprofit organizations Planned Parenthood and Habitat for Humanity.
She previously explained wherefore she prefers the use the connection "giving" alternatively of "philanthropy" to picture what she's doing with her money, insisting that the absorption shouldn't beryllium connected a dollar number, but rather the bully the organizations do.
"We thin to springiness much absorption to things we tin tally, and to fertile everything else," Scott wrote successful an effort posted to Medium successful 2021. "Why does 1 signifier of compassionate action, 1 radical of beneficiaries, 1 radical of givers person to beryllium much important than the others? Financially invaluable versus socially valuable."
The novelist added that she prefers to permission it up to groups who've received her wealth to "speak for themselves archetypal if they take to, with the anticipation that erstwhile they do, media focuses connected their contributions alternatively of mine."
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