Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson started the People’s Fund of Maui with a joint $10 million donation.
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She continued by explaining that, at first, she was contributing material things, like generators and towels, and as she spoke to people, she felt they wanted agency. Then, Gayle King’s son, Will, shared an article with Winfrey about Dolly Parton starting a people’s fund in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, after the wildfires that took place there in 2017.
“She had a concert,” the talk show host said. “She raised $12.5 million and then directly gave it to the people, $1,000 a month. I thought, ‘Whoa, that’s the idea.’ [Money] directly into the hands of the people. So, to set up the infrastructure for that, The Rock and his team and my team, we were on, I don’t know how many Zooms to set up the infrastructure for the verification process to be able to drop money into people’s accounts.
They thought about how they have both given to charity their whole lives and felt like starting with $10 million worked because it was enough to kick things off before opening the
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