By Page Six | Created at 2024-11-21 21:09:58 | Updated at 2024-11-22 01:04:25
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Jeff Bezos and his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, have donated $110.5 million to help fight homelessness.
On Thursday, the Amazon founder — whose estimated net worth, according to Forbes, is $214.6 billion — and the former news anchor announced that the money will go to 40 different organizations that focus on family homelessness.
“With homelessness on the rise, there has never been a more important time to support those individuals and organizations making a difference,” Sánchez, 54, said in a statement.
“Every family deserves a home, and we’re thankful to be able to play a part in working towards making that a reality.”
Bezos, 60, said the 40 organizations they are recognizing “are leading groundbreaking work on the frontlines of the fight to end homelessness and build independence for families.”
“No child should sleep outside, and it’s a privilege to help in the extraordinary efforts of these organizations,” he added.
The couple — who got engaged in May 2023 after nearly five years of dating — have donated hundreds of millions of dollars to charity over the years.
In October, Page Six reported that Bezos and Sánchez announced their Bezos Earth Fund was donating $60 million to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
The grant will aim to restore and conserve the Northern Great Plains and “grasslands and longleaf pine forests” of the Southeast.
A source exclusively told Page Six: “The news was announced during a 20-minute fireside chat between Jeff, Lauren and [hedge funder philanthropist] Paul Tudor Jones in front of guests.”
The billionaire businessman said that though the “world is so much better today than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago, 500 years ago,” the “natural world is not as good today as it was 500 years ago, in our preindustrial society.”
Sánchez said she was “so excited” to see the work the Bezos Earth Fund’s Greening America’s Cities program does “in transforming spaces like parking lots into beautiful parks.”
