topic Re: Jeff Bezos Donates his riches in Community Chat

Go Dolly Parton!

Linmo — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 06:05:36 GMT

She received a $100 MILLION award from Jeff Bezos for her humanitarian efforts.

She's such an inspirational and down to earth woman. GO DOLLY!

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Queen of shop — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 06:06:22 GMT

@Linmo I just read that online. Great news. Dolly is the best. Good for Bezos too.

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KathyM23 — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 07:08:11 GMT

She will probably donate it to charity.

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meallen616 — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 10:02:26 GMT

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MorningLover — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:32:36 GMT

FOX: Bezos selected Dolly Parton as the 2022 recipient of his Courage and Charities Award, as an individual who "leads with her heart."

Bezos applauded Dolly Parton, 76, for all that "she's done for kids, literacy, and so many other things."

Creating The Dollywood Foundation in 1988, Parton has prioritized education in youth. From this, The Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library was born, which predominately offers books to young children and scholarships to high school students. In 2016, she established The My People Fund, to help those impacted by fire in Sevier Country, her hometown county.

In addition to her own organization, Parton has helped to fund The LeConte Medical Center in Sevierville, Tennessee, as well as the covid 19 vaccine produced by Moderna.

"When people are in a position to help, you should help," Parton stated, upon accepting the award. "I know that I've always said, I try to put my money where my heart is. I will do my best to do good things with this money," she added.

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Skyegirl21 — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:39:30 GMT

A beautiful person, inside and out! ❤️❤️❤️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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PamfromCT — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 12:58:28 GMT

Congratulations to Bezos for his donation of one hundred million $ to charity.

Happy to see that Dolly will oversee the distribution of this donation. She is a national treasure and will do an excellent job.

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Group 5 minus 1 — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 12:40:15 GMT

If I could quote a song from Anne Murray "Sure could use a little good news today".

Thank you so much.

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Citrine1 — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:08:41 GMT

@KathyM23 wrote:
She will probably donate it to charity.

I would hope so. Kind of defeats the purpose if she keeps it.

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CAcableGirl2 — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:15:10 GMT

@Citrine1 I don't think it's a "prize" where she is to keep the money...I read that it was awarded to her to distribute as she would like to various causes.

That's a lot of work, and I am excited to see what she does with it.

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chrystaltree — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:18:13 GMT

@KathyM23 wrote:
She will probably donate it to charity.

That's the idea. The award goes to great humanitarians to assist them in their humanitarian work.

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sann — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:57:41 GMT

She believes when people are in a position to help they should......

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Kachina624 — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:10:24 GMT

@KathyM23 wrote:
She will probably donate it to charity.

@KathyM23 The report I heard said that was a stipulation of her receiving the award. It wasn't for her personal use.

Jeff Bezos Donates his riches

gertrudecloset — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:31:12 GMT

Jeff Bezos (the one who gave this money to Dolly Parton) for her various charities and philanthropic work ~ has done this twice before.

He gave $100MM dollars to Van Jones not more than a year ago.

The billionaire space race heated up on July 20, 2021, when Amazon founder and multi-billionaire Jeff Bezos traveled to the edge of space in his Blue Origin spacecraft. He followed fellow billionaire Richard Branson into this race, as Branson traveled to the edge of space a week prior (via NPR). If 11 minutes in space wasn't news enough for Bezos, at a press conference after the flight, he made even more news when he announced he was giving two people $100 million each to give to a charity of their choice. One of those people was Van Jones

Jones, along with humanitarian chef

, were the first recipients of what Bezos is calling his Courage and Civility Award. While the press seemed surprised by Bezos' announcement, Jones was not, as he revealed that Bezos called him a few days prior to tell him the news and explained to why Jones was chosen.

Van Jones thanked Jeff Bezos for the opportunity to do good

Chef José Andrés

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on the bay — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:33:24 GMT

@MorningLover,

Thank you for these great pictures! She is one of my very favorite people

ever!

My grandkids get her imagination library books.

She is probably my favorite singer too!

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KathyM23 — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:38:07 GMT

Sorry @Kachina624 and @Chrystaltree I diidn't realize this was was a recurring charity donation from Bezos and the purpose was to name an overseer of the distributions. Dolly will be a great one to give good care to this wonderful donation. She is a true humanitarian and has done great things. Truly a uique person. I guess I am out of touch.

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Citrine1 — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:36:26 GMT

@CAcableGirl2 wrote:
@Citrine1 I don't think it's a "prize" where she is to keep the money...I read that it was awarded to her to distribute as she would like to various causes.

That's a lot of work, and I am excited to see what she does with it.

Yes, that makes a lot of sense @CAcableGirl2 . Thanks for explaining. I realized my comment was stupid as soon as I posted it.

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Cakers3 — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:46:51 GMT

Dolly Parton

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tansy — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:49:55 GMT

It's nice to see Bezos becoming more charitable.

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gertrudecloset — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:55:51 GMT

It is well established that Bezos, Warren Buffet, Bezo's former wife and some other extremely wealthy Americans made a pact to give away a lot of their wealth over time. There are loads of stories about this on the internet. If I'm not mistaken the former Mrs. Bezos has just given away some of her wealth recently too.

I believe this pact also includes Bill and Melinda Gates.