Jeff Bezos , the world’srichest soul , announced today that he will put $ 2 billion toward efforts to assist roofless folk as well as children in low - income area , Bloombergreports . The Amazon beginner and CEO outlined his plan for the " Bezos Day One Fund " in a web log post that he took screenshots of and tweeted out to his following .
In the message , Bezos said the investment firm will direct two key area . First , it will put up funding to non - profit organisation that already live and are presently serve dispossessed home . Second , it will be used to create a web of non - profit preschools in humiliated - income areas , as well as an organisation to operate those schools . These introduction will be " full - erudition " schools and will be based on the Montessori teaching method .
" We ’ll use the same set of principle that have driven Amazon , " he wrote . " Most authoritative among those will be real , vivid customer obsession . The tike will be the customer . "
Bezos , whose personal destiny totals $ 163.8 billion , has previously invested in space infrastructure and news media ( through his purchase ofThe Washington Post ) , and has leave funding to cancer research andcollege scholarshipsfor immigrant student .
It ’s worth noting , though , that not everyone is praise Bezos ’s philanthropy . This promulgation make out amid sharp criticism of Amazon ’s recentefforts to killa Seattle line of work tax that would benefit the homeless community of interests , as well as criticism of the company ’s treatment of employees . In August , Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders found a petition calling for Bezos to raise earnings and improve working conditions , Voxreports , and just last week , Sandersintroduceda " cease BEZOS Act " government note ( the not - remotely - subtle dig digest for Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies Act — basically , it purport heavily tax wealthy corporations whose blue - wage employee have to rely on government aid to get by ) . In answer , Amazon called the critique " inaccurate and deceptive . "
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