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Jeff Bezos launches $2 billion fund to finance preschools and help homeless families — TechCrunch

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In a tweet this morning, Amazon founder (and the world’s richest man) Jeff Bezos announced that he and his wife were creating a $2 billion fund to finance a network of nonprofit preschools and donate funds to organizations helping homeless families, writes Jonathan Shieber, and Anthony Ha

Here is the link: https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/13/jeff-bezos-launches-2-billion-fund-to-finance-preschools-and-help-homeless-families/

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