20 Minutes With: The philanthropist and businessman talks about his charitable work and his decision to leave the Mormon Church
Billionaire philanthropist and businessman Jeff Green’s decision to leave the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2021 was an act that was in keeping with his values and desire to give back, he says.
Green points to the rapidly shifting social acceptance of the greater queer rights movement over his lifetime. He says this was starkly evident in the evolution of the official stance of the Obama presidency, which began firmly against LGBTQ+ marriages in its first term, only to completely change its position in its second, reflecting broader sentiments of the nation at large.
For instance, Green examined disparities in outcomes between those with or without access to college to determine his approach to educational philanthropy. The Jeff T. Green Family Foundation Scholarship offers 250 scholarship awards each year to first-time freshman students at California State University Channel Islands, granting US$20,000 to each recipient over the course of four years.
He wants his philanthropy to reach far and wide. Among his many projects, his foundation announced in June that it will partner with Team Dayā to completely fund the construction of a new primary school in Nicaragua this fall. So much of your philanthropy is engineered around education. Why, out of all the areas, was that specifically one you wanted to focus on?
I see so many nonprofits and philanthropic efforts where they are trying so hard to believe that they’ve made a difference. How do you know you’ve actually made a difference? With a lot of causes, it’s super hard. With this one, we just have this amazing benefit, we can show in the data we did it, we’ve positively impacted thousands of lives.
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