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It's the second billion-dollar commitment Melinda French Gates has personally made in the past five years. She says she will be donating $1 billion over the next two years.
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Melinda French Gates resigns as Gates Foundation co-chair, 3 years after her divorce from Bill GatesMelinda French Gates announced Monday that she will step down as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She helped found the foundation more than 20 years ago with her ex-husband Bill Gates.
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Since 2013, more than 1 million charities received donations from AmazonSmile, which sent a small portion of a customer's purchase on Amazon to a nonprofit of their choice. Amazon announced last week that the program will end on Feb. 20.
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Does The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have too much power and influence? The foundation’s CEO Mark Suzman raised that question in an annual letter released Tuesday and when asked, said the answer was, "No.” With $8.3 billion to give away in 2023, the Gates Foundation is the largest private philanthropic donor.
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Donations often come with rigorous applications and reporting requirements. Billionaire MacKenzie Scott, who divorced Jeff Bezos in 2019 and vowed to give away most of her fortune, does it her way.
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Former Seattle Seahawk Doug Baldwin talks to KNKX Morning Edition host Kirsten Kendrick about racial justice, second chances and giving back in part two of this interview for the KNKX "Going Deep" series.
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Megadonor MacKenzie Scott announced almost $2 billion in donations in a short blog post Monday that emphasized her interest in supporting people from underserved communities. The announcement brought the amount she’s said she’s given to around $14 billion to some 1,500 organizations.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said in an interview with CNN that he will give away the majority of his wealth during his lifetime. Bezos has been criticized in the past for not pledging to donate the majority of his wealth through philanthropy.
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Works by artists including Cézanne, Seurat, and van Gogh sold for a record-breaking $1.5 billion during the first part of Christie’s two-day auction of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen’s collection. All proceeds from the sale will benefit philanthropies chosen by Allen’s estate.
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The Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center announced a $710 million gift from the Bezos family. It's the largest gift the center has ever received and one of the largest to go to any single cancer research organization in recent years.