Gender Equality News: MacKenzie Scott, Melinda French-Gates Donate $40M To 4 Organizations
07/29/21 AT 7:15 PM
Philanthropists Melinda French-Gates and MacKenzie Scott on Thursday teamed up to donate $40 million to four gender-equality organizations as part of the "Equality Can’t Wait Challenge."
The four organizations — they were chosen for efforts to promote equality in caregiving, tech, and higher education along with supporting minority communities — were selected from a pool of more than 500 applicants and will each receive $10 million.
Scott recently divorced the world's richest person, Jeff Bezos, and is the world’s third-richest woman, with a fortune of $64 billion, according to Bloomberg's Billionaire Index. French-Gates, who recently divorced the world's fourth-richest person Bill Gates, has a net worth of $3.2 billion.