The group does not require donors to name the organizations or causes they plan to support with the bulk of their fortunes.īezos said she will give careful thought to how she distributes the money. You open your safe and find ashes.”īy signing the Giving Pledge, wealthy benefactors promise to give away more than half their assets, either during their life or after their death. Something more will arise for later, something better… Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. “Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book… The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now.
Jeff Bezos celebrated the news, saying via Twitter, “MacKenzie is going to be amazing and thoughtful and effective at philanthropy, and I’m proud of her.”ĭiscussing her pledge, MacKenzie Bezos, a novelist, quoted from Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life: “In addition to whatever assets life has nurtured in me, I have a disproportionate amount of money to share.”Īs one of the wealthiest women in the world - and the ex-wife of a billionaire who has not signed the Giving Pledge - Bezos is the most prominent name on the list of new signatories to the pledge. “We each come by the gifts we have to offer by an infinite series of influences and lucky breaks we can never fully understand,” Bezos wrote in a letter announcing her pledge. MacKenzie Bezos, who received more than $35 billion in her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has signed the Giving Pledge, making a commitment to give more than half her fortune to charity or philanthropic causes.
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