largely $640 million in new philanthropic contributions Mackenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, donates to nonprofits promoting far-left causes, including aiding immigrants who have committed crimes and supporting male-born transgender athletes who want to compete with women. I plan to.
Scott will provide a total of $122 million in legal aid and other assistance to 67 immigrant advocacy groups, according to an analysis of 361 awards he announced Tuesday. Through her foundation “Yield Giving”.
Big winners include the Florida Immigration Coalition; I strongly oppose Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ crackdown on immigrants who have committed crimes. And the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition is fighting the state’s efforts to crack down on illegal immigration. Both won $2 million in prize money.
Scott’s other awards include $117 million to 67 prisoner advocacy groups and other organizations that support prison inmates and ex-convicts. Additionally, the company will donate $72 million to 43 organizations that advance gender identity, sexual orientation, and other LGBTQ causes. This includes defending the right of biological boys who identify as transgender girls to participate in women’s sports.
She also allocated an additional $18 million to 10 organizations promoting clean energy.
“Bezos’ wife is using the profits he has made through capitalism to: [fund] Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, cited a famous quote by former Soviet revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin: “‘The capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them. ” he said.
Gonzalez said Scott’s use of Bezos’ funds is another example of woke philanthropy spawned by the fruits of capitalism, such as the left-wing Rockefeller Foundation, using funds to undermine free market principles. added.
“Everything she’s donating to, whether it’s transgender ideas, support for undocumented immigrants, prisoner’s rights, climate change, is all about changing our system away from capitalism. ,” he said.
Scott, the author of two novels and the third richest woman in the United States, has been married to Bezos for nearly 25 years and has four children with him. She parted ways with Bezos in 2019 with a staggering $38.3 billion in Amazon stock.
Prior to Tuesday’s announcement, she donated $16.5 billion of her fortune to organizations researched and selected by her and her team.
In December 2022, she Her charity database It’s called Yield Giving.
Scott then began soliciting applications from community-driven nonprofit organizations seeking funding. The Yield Giving website says applicants are required to have a budget of $1 million to $5 million and a mission to “advance the voices and opportunities of individuals and families of low means.” .
The $640 million that Yield Giving awarded in its first philanthropy was more than double the amount Scott had pledged, with 361 of the 6,350 charities that applied receiving awards of either $1 million or $2 million. Obtained.
Megan Peterson, Executive Director of Gender Justice, said: Praising Scott’s $2 million “gift” to nonprofit organizations, he said, “Here in Minnesota, North Dakota, and across the country, conservative legal movements are threatening our fundamental rights.” “This gift could not come at a more important time,” he said in a statement.
“Building and sustaining a world without gender barriers requires community organizing, education, and changing the way we talk and think about gender,” Peterson added. His group recently won lawsuits over access to emergency contraception and the rights of transgender youth to play sports. It’s not biological sex.
Of the $72 million Scott has donated to LGBTQ causes, at least $16 million has gone to organizations such as the ACLU of Alabama, Baltimore-based Soccer Without Borders, and OutFront Minnesota to support transgender athletes in women’s sports. The money was donated to a nonprofit organization leading the effort.
Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn) Supports legislation to maintain fairness in women’s sports “Unfortunately, it’s her personal money,” he said, adding that Ms. Scott’s spending on these left-wing causes by keeping her biological boys out of the picture was “unfortunate.”
“Democrats, who run cities across America, do this every day with our funds. This is the real battle we must continue to fight,” she said.
A note on her website says:Scott wrote that she was grateful to Lever for Change, the organization that managed the award selection process, and to the evaluators, who were important “agents of change.”
Representatives for Lever for Change and Scott did not return messages.
Elon Musk slammed Scott’s past charitable donations in an X post that has since been deleted. . . This may be cited as one of the reasons why Western civilization collapsed. ”
