McKenzie Scott made a record braking $275 million dollar donation to Planned Parenthood.

McKenzie Scott is putting her money where her mouth is. In 2019, Jeff Bezos's ex-wife made a promise to give away the majority of her wealth and she is sticking to it. Scott's philanthropy comes with an impressive amount of transparency. Just yesterday, she posted an article on Medium in which she carefully illustrated the various organizations she has sent money to since June. She has contributed to 465 non-profit organizations. In the article she penned, she includes a list of them all.

One of the largest sums she has donated was to Planned Parenthood. She gave the organization $275 million dollars, according to an article on NPR. Although this number is impressively astounding, it is only a portion of the $12 billion dollars she has given away since this promise.


Scott's aim is to create a better world where people are treated kindly and fairly. She wrote in her article on Medium:

It's easy to think of different groups struggling within the same systems as not only separate, but also opposing. Yet when we help one group, we often help them all. A growing body of research on this contains numerous examples - bike lanes designed to protect cyclists improving local retail sales and property values for everyone, seatbelt laws adopted to protect young children saving the lives of people of all ages, students of all ethnicities achieving better learning outcomes at schools that are racially diverse, workforce and education opportunities for women and girls leading to global economic growth. And those are just the positive ripple effects that can be easily counted.

Thank you McKenzie Scott for inspiring action.

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