Area nonprofits receive portion of $4 billion national donation

Gift is largest ever for United Way Suncoast.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 2:23 p.m. December 17, 2020
  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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At least five nonprofit organizations in the region have received significant donations from Mackenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Scott, in a Dec. 15 blog post on Medium, announced she had given $4.16 billion to 384 organizations across all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.    

 

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