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Millions of cookies: MacKenzie Scott gives Girl Scouts $85M

October 18, 2022 10:12 pm

It's the largest donation the Girl Scouts have received from an individual since their founding in 1912, she said.

The fortunes of MacKenzie Scott

April 11, 2022 10:53 am

Her own life has taken sharp turns that have shaped her choices, including her extraordinary leap into philanthropy, which in less than three years has exceeded $12 billion in grants.

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donates $2.7 billion in latest round of charitable giving

June 16, 2021 10:51 am

Last year, amid the coronavirus pandemic, she donated more than $4 billion to food banks and emergency relief funds, months after she announced $1.7 billion in grants to causes such as racial equality, LGBTQ rights and climate change.

MacKenzie Scott gave away billions. The scam artists followed.

April 25, 2021 11:04 am

Over the course of 2020, MacKenzie Scott announced gifts totaling nearly $6 billion. Her unconventional model of giving was widely praised for its speed and directness.

MacKenzie Scott, a Philanthropist and ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, remarries

March 08, 2021 9:07 am

For Scott, her remarriage is the latest twist in a life where she has quietly but firmly set the limits of her own privacy. Rather than remaining anonymous in her giving, she chose to announce nearly $6 billion in grants and gifts last year in a pair of posts to the site Medium.

Jeff Bezos's former wife MacKenzie Scott donates over $4 billion in four months

December 16, 2020 10:47 am

Scott’s gifts this year approach $6 billion, which “has to be one of the biggest annual distributions by a living individual” to working charities, according to Melissa Berman, chief executive officer of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.