MacKenzie Scott’s $26B giving inspired by a book
MacKenzie Scott, one of the world's wealthiest women, chose a unique path for her philanthropy after her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2019. Unlike other billionaires who joined the Giving Pledge, Scott developed her own approach to giving, which was inspired by a passage she had underlined in a college book years earlier.
The book was "The Writing Life" by Annie Dillard, and the specific quote that resonated with Scott was, "The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now." This statement, which she had starred in her college copy of the book, became a guiding principle for her philanthropic efforts.
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