Bezos’s gift to the Obama Foundation is the largest it has ever received
Also on Monday, NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn said it received $166 million from the Bezos family. The donation will be used to address “social determinants of health and key drivers of health inequities,” NYU Langone said in a press release. Though Bezos’s parents were early investors in Amazon and have a foundation for their charitable giving, the NYU donation did not come from the Bezos Family Foundation, and instead came directly from the family.
Since he stepped down as CEO of Amazon in July, Bezos has made a series of high-profile donations and pledges. This month alone, Bezos has given away 39,579 shares of Amazon worth about $144 million to nonprofits, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings, but an Amazon spokesperson declined to say where those shares went. estimates, and he hasn’t signed the Giving Pledge, a commitment to donate the majority of one’s wealth to charitable causes.
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