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Righting perceived wrongs has also been a driver for British entrepreneur Joanna Jensen’s philanthropy. In her case, it is the paucity of funding for women entrepreneurs. But like Novogratz, it...
She has married a science teacher at the school her children attend in Seattle and signed the Giving Pledge, promising to devote most of her wealth to giving back.
Three decades after worrying about making rent, she is now giving away billions — all while trying to keep herself out of the spotlight.
Wealthy women giving their money and time away is nothing new (see: Brooke Astor, Nan Kempner, Liz Thompson and Agnes Gund). But for many decades, those who were married did so in their...
Shortly after her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos became final, MacKenzie Bezos promised to give at least half of her assets away. By divorcing the world’s richest person, the novelist...
Leading the charge is MacKenzie Scott, who came into a tidy fortune in 2019 after her divorce from Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon. She has outsourced the grunt work of philanthropy to...
As scholars of how women give and global philanthropy, we’ve learned that women overall are more likely to give, and give more, than men, and these differences can be seen in a variety of...
