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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.
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Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $38.8 million to Junior Achievement USA and 26 local operations — the largest single gift in its 103-year history — the national education nonprofit announced Tuesday.
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For years California, Florida, Oregon, Washington, and other states have relied on incarcerated men and women to fight wildfires. They are trained to perform grueling work while earning just a few dollars, sometimes as little as $2 a day. Now a nonprofit group is helping incarcerated people who have been trained as firefighters secure careers in the profession once they leave prison.