![]() It appeared to be a hastily contrived PR move to address the grumbling that the world’s richest man wasn’t focusing his philanthropic attention on problems confronting the planet he currently inhabits. Sure, $200 million is a lot of money (though perhaps not to a centi-billionaire), but some commentators (myself included) noted that the post-flight charity announcement had a slapdash quality to it. He was inaugurating a “Courage and Civility” award-“We need unifiers and not vilifiers,” he said-and the first winners were celebrity chef José Andrés and TV news analyst Van Jones, each of whom would get $100 million.Īndrés and Jones were understandably ecstatic, but among philanthropy analysts, the gifts’ reception was mixed. ![]() On July 20, not long after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos returned to earth after an 11-minute space flight aboard one of the rockets his Blue Origin space exploration company had manufactured, he faced the cameras, still wearing his blue spacesuit but now sporting a cowboy hat, to make a surprise announcement. ![]()
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