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Amazon boss Jeff Bezos pledges $2bn of his own money to help homeless and pre-schools

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is to launch a $2bn (£1.53bn) fund to help homeless families and launch pre-schools in poor communities.
The world's richest man made the announcement on Twitter a year after he asked for ideas on how he could use his personal fortune - estimated to be about $163bn (£124.34bn) - for charitable efforts.
The Bezos Day One Fund will contribute to "existing non-profit organisations that help homeless families" and also fund "a network of new, non-profit, tier-one pre-schools in low-income communities," he wrote.
Organisations will be given grants for "doing compassionate, needle-moving work to provide shelter and hunger support to address the needs of young families".
He said: "We'll use the same set of principles that have driven Amazon.
"Most important among those will be genuine, intense customer obsession. The child will be the customer."
He said the cash will also provide funding to launch and operate "a network of high-quality, full-scholarship" pre-schools in "underserved communities".
"We will build an organisation to directly operate these schools."
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Amazon has come under heavy criticism for how workers are treated at its distribution centres and its tax contributions.
Bezos thanked people for sending in suggestions about what he should spend money on.
He wrote: "I want to close by thanking everyone who sent me suggestions, and for the inspiring examples of innovation I see every day, large and small.
"It fills me with gratitude and optimism to be part of a species so bent on self-improvement."

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https://news.sky.com/story/amazon-boss-jeff-bezos-pledges-2bn-of-his-own-money-to-help-homeless-and-pre-schools-11496833

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