it's now time for bezos to become more philanthropic.e asked for people to help him give some of his wealth away. he said homelessness and education were two things that emerged that a very important to people and he also feels early intervention in child education, getting a kid on a good path to education early is the best step rather than trying to intervene later and get them caught up. with homelessness, it looks like they will try to support listing shelters that are making a difference and have a track record of success and throw more recess -- resources at them. selina: he has pledged to help homeless families and this comes at a weird time after he overturned a tax that would bring funding to homes in seattle. why is this happening? naomi: amazon fight -- night -- spencer: amazon fought against the tax that would generate about $50 million a year for programs for the homeless and create affordable housing. that was a tax on big employers and amazon would have been the primary target of the tax. what this shows is bezos is fine s

ago, youout a year said you wanted to look for some good philanthropic ideas. got 47,000 of them? jeff: yeah. david: you review them. so how did you decide where to put this to billion dollars? jeff: that process was very helpful. i kind of crowd sourced and got literally something like 47,000, maybe a little more, most of them came on social media. i read through thousands and thousands of them. my office correlated them all and put them into buckets. there were some themes that emerged. the other thing that is fascinating, you see just how long-tailed it is. people are interested in helping the world in so many different ways. a lot of people are interested in homelessness, including me. a lot of people are interested in education of all kinds. i am interested in early education. the apple does not fall far from the tree. my mother in running the bezos family foundation has become education. early i am a student of montessori schools. [applause] jeff: i started at montessori when i was two years old. the teacher complained to my mother that i was too task-foc

david: about a year ago, you said you wanted to look for some good philanthropic ideas.ot 47,000 of them? jeff: yeah. david: you review them. so how did you decide where to put this $2 billion? jeff: that process was very helpful. i kind of crowd sourced and got literally something like 47,000, maybe a little more, most of them came on social media. i read through thousands and thousands of them. my office correlated them all and put them into buckets. there were some themes that emerged. the other thing that is fascinating, you see just how long-tailed it is. people are interested in helping the world in so many different ways. a lot of people are interested in homelessness, including me. a lot of people are interested in education of all kinds. i am interested in early education. the apple does not fall far from the tree. my mother in running the bezos family foundation has become an expert in early education. i am a student of montessori schools. [applause] jeff: i started at montessori when i was two years old. the teacher complained to my mother that i was too task-

man and now he nnounces the creation of a multibillion-dollar charitable fund and outlining the philanthropic plan. >> the world' richest man gives away more money. jeff bezos and his wif launching a philanthropic fund calling it the day one fund with a $2 billion commitment. a fund which focuses on two things, the homeless problem and education for preschoolers in ne. in the announcement bezos said the day one family fund will work with existingnon-profits to help homeless families and modelled after the famous mary's place non-profit i seattle where bezos lived and which has a rising homeless problem. the day one academy fund will launch scholarship preschools in underserved communities. he wrote he will use the same set of principles that drive amazon opinihe gift follows criticism about bezos's fortune at $164 billion compared with the low pay for amazon employe and coming after increased scrutiny of phasanthropy. het signed a giving pledge. until this announcement he had given ay less than $170 million. this month he announced a gift of $10 million to superpac helping to elect military v

an embarrassment of riches when it came to philanthropic activities. a number of groups competing for funds. the public was not alone in its initial coolness toward the christian commission. early in the work, friction existed between the commission and a number of officers. it is true, because the commission was rather slow at first to complete its organizing process, it wasted valuable time in establishing legitimacy in the eyes of the government and the public. as a result, and because many groups were clamoring for public favors, secretary award edwin m stanton and henry halleck originally placed restrictions on the commission's activities. delegates were routinely denied passage through the military lines, and were prevented for performing their duties. in addition, many surgeons were annoyed by the presence of commission workers among their patients. commission agents had no professional training or medical experience, consequently they had no business rambling around the army hospitals. the christian commission's efforts, particularly in 1862, a

water.org helping a philanthropic effort scale to a larger business.y so much you can do with a philanthropic grant and a small business loan, so we actually create an equity fund. cold water equity, $51, bank of america is the first $5 million into that find, and over time we will have raised $15 million of capital, and they can reach many more people so you're solving an issue not in the micro way but in a macro way. when we want the same kind of skilled we have for other businesses to the environment, that's what it really makes a difference. >> thank you very much to our friends for the bank america for making this conversation possible. for another point of view about this, if you google information about vaping people wind up sooner or later vaping.org. we have the man behind vaping.org, the president of the american vaping association, a lawyer from new jersey, welcome to axios, greg. appreciate it very much. how did you get vaping.org? >> we had to pay for it but not too much. >> how much? >> a few grand. >> you got a good you. axios cost more

not convenient to criticize the people who have made philanthropic gifts to the news that i work for. society makes enormous, can make very bad choices for long periods of times because of something as flimsy as myths because of a belief that is actually so, so ethereal that mark zuckerberg looks like. i look at this country and think we have all been hoodwinked by a story of what change looks like that simply is not true. >> versus other stories of change that we do know for. the civil rights movements, the voting rights. >> if you ask yourself, anybody listening to this, ask yourself, what did you do today and how many of those things would you not have been able to do 50 or 100 years ago. many of your viewers may not have been able to work in the job they do because of their identity, they may not be in this country depending on policies, they may not have been able to vote or sit at a restaurant counter, and how did we change all those things. why wouldn't you have been able to do those things today? you were able to do things because people organized, marched, fought, spoke truth

billion and has faced criticism for not doing more philanthropic work.been trending in the business news this morning. we will start with the business insider. over 200 delivery drivers suing amazon on on claims often missing wages. in the words of one common during my route i was unable to eat lunch, take breaks and a even had to urinate on the side of the road or in a bottle. over on bloomberg, chinese shoppers don't love like here any more. the appeal of foreign bands —— brands appeals —— seems to be waning in china. over on the financial times, the uk crime agency steps up its assault on russian dirty money. the national crime agency needs to extend the use of unexplained wealth orders and target lawyers and accountants. don't forget, you can let us know what you are spotting online. just use our hash tag. that is all i have from the business news at this hour work. and more coming up. you can see the markets there, they have had a good day was a rise on asian stocks as well. news briefing coming up stocks as well. news briefing coming up in stocks a

of dollars into our district for our children, and we've raised millions more dollars through philanthropicoked at that as investments for our children and people have stepped up in ways that i've never seen before. and i want to just thank the staff, who worked tirelessly for our 58,000 children and our 4,500 teachers and the many, many folks that you represent when you come to us to update us and to be sure that what we've asked you to do is implemented with fidelity. and i see those back three rows every board meeting, knowing that you're all doing your e-mails, because there's a lot of time here to be able to do that. and i'm getting the e-mails during the board meeting, but i also know that this means that you're away from your families and that you're going to show up tomorrow morning early again and do the work that you do. and so many of you have been mentors to me and colleagues and friends, and i just want to start by thanking you for all of your hard work and dedication that you've demonstrated day in and day out as members of sfusd. i want to thank esther and debby. you know, es

i am jon fortt here at one market with breaking news around jeff bezos and his philanthropic efforts. a $2 billion day one fund he has announced. it is called the bezos day one fund it is $2 billion funding two areas. one, funding existing nonprofits that help homeless families, another creating a network of new nonprofit tier one preschools in low income communities. he and his wife mckenzie share a belief in the potential for hard work from anyone to serve others bezos has come under some fire in the past for not having a very visible philanthropic arm he is the richest man in the world on paper right now, based on the appreciation of amazon stock. he also faced backlash around the impact of amazon's low wage jobs, particularly in warehouses in seattle, there's a push to deal with the cost of living and spiraling homeless problem there in seattle the day one fund interestingly attacking a couple of areas where bezos himself has faced some criticism, carl >> absolutely. fascinating look at this effort. homeless, preschools, civic organizations and a lot more as you mention, jon after

in short the philanthropic drive to remake education is a troubling nationwide trend. elizabeth kolbert -- invoking another journalist -- her excellent new yorker part on big philanthropy, a couple weeks ago-point it out the g.o.p.'s new tax reform bill reserved the deduction for charitable contribution buzz capped the deduction for state and local tax payments which fund among other things education. and so she writes, it's possible that in the not too distant future, philanthropic giving will outstrip federal outlays on nondefense discretionary probable limes like education and the arts. this is depressing. but remember i said my book is actually fairly upbeat. and at my day job at the college, i'm known as something of a pollyanna. so let me sort of wrap up and then more hopeful note. as i mentioned my book has a number of positive examples so i want to just talk for a moment about the massachusetts 1993 education reform law. which i would argue is a very hopeful example. massachusetts, as you know, is the gold standard for education in this country. it outachieves

just like cities have been waiting on amazon to announce its next headquarters, those in the philanthropic community and those in the social sectors have announced they were waiting to understand where he would commit his philanthropic dollars. this is a huge accomplishment. we are excited that he is starting to give back. >> i'm led to believe that your organization won't directly benefit from the bezos foundation, the fund he has set up. you have a sense that that might change in the future? >> maybe it will change in the future. but, i think even more significant than that is to understand that there are those who have and those who have not. and that, he is making a personal commitment, he and his wife, to give back to those who don't. and so, as we see on our streets of london and san francisco in the bay area every day, homelessness is the most visible part of poverty. and we at tipping point are working to change the number of people who are living in poverty in we say whether it's in the city of san francisco, or the people who are working on this issue across the nation, that we a

develop an organization in order to broker, in order to really attract resources, institutions, philanthropicalher countries. francine: when i see the stamp fair trade, is it 100% true? does it mean that i, as a consumer, is doing a little bit less evil for the world? andrea: fair trade has been, i believe it belongs a little to the past. it's been a very good first step towards sustainability. but not sustainability, it's the commitment to pay premium price to the coffee which is the same that you would pay less on the marketplace. so it's kind of a market distortion which the consumer by seeing a label believes that the coffee has paid a fair price, but unfortunately, these expectations did neither create a huge consumption because most of the consumers buy the coffee not for the quality but because it's fair trade. so they tend to kind of limit their choice to sometimes, not always, you know. you take your preferred coffee and sometimes you take fair trade one. and on the other side, the expectation that it created with growers may create an oversupply. the problem is now there's too much ce

by using philanthropic dollars, we actually pay somebody's bail and at the end of a criminal case, because money comes back, it will revolve back into the fund. bail was actually created to be a form of release. it wasn't intended to hold people in jail cells and it wasn't intended to create a two- tier system of justice-- one for ode rich, and one for ever else, but that is exactly what it's done. 75% of people in american local jails are there becaey cannot pay bills. these people haven't been convicted a thing. until we grapple with what the reality is and how our country has beenddicted to imprisonment for as long as it has existed, and since slavery to mass incarceration have happened, we're never going to get at the root of the problem and the root of the problem there is structural racism and the root of the problem there is income inequality anthose are big issues we need to deal with. we also need to really ask ourselves, do we believe in the presumption of innocence or don't we? if we believe in the presumption of innocence, then when somebody is arrested, that presumption should

trend and then others will follow suit i don't think he's doing this because he's crazy or he is a philanthropic no he calculated that and he found out it makes sense in the comically he was has already calculate that. well he can make money that's why he's investing so he's not crazy so very important the reason i am promoting that personally i am very supportive of this kind of simple to use because you can generate the money and create jobs. but in cutoffs the country like a test run because you fuel invest you know large scale the cost of the letter city goes down and down and down and get even cheaper then coal fire electricity poor fire the electricity is like about five to six cents per kilowatt now from this the solar panel is now already wind down to four cents in dubai and i would be already be taxed on in here you can go down to four cents show you so already even more cheaper than the pole this is why these to converge it can be a game changer we all need just need that largest piece of land but it's not going to cut a stunt or go with theirs or even in siberia what can't can't can't

the partnership with the fraternity as well as a philanthropic organization. >> do you think he would have been someone who wanted a historic site dedicated to him? ms. lowe: i don't know. he was a humble man. he was a passionate man. i think he would be gratified to see a national historic site to the association he created and the potential to reach millions more and an international community, which has publications did in the 1930's through 1950's. i think he would be gratified at the legacy, but not necessarily gratified by the site being to himself. >> these publications you talked about, what were they? ms. lowe: he expanded the knowledge of the contributions of african americans to american history, to world history. , to was always his goal integrate the content into how we look at history in the united states and the world. he provided the specific information we needed to incorporate that, giving teachers, parents, and professionals an outlet. one of his most famous works is the education of the knee grow -- negro and it talks about chief education, organization of content

like i mentioned before, the partnership with the fraternity , as well as one of our partner philanthropic organizations. >> talk about his personality a little bit. do you think he would have been someone who wanted a historic site dedicated to him? turkiya: actually i don't know. reflecting on that, he was a humble man. he was a passionate man. i think he would be gratified to see a national historic site to the association he created and the potential to reach millions more, and in the international community, which his publications did in the 1930's , 1940's, and 1950's. so i think he would be gratified at the legacy, but not necessarily gratified by the site being to himself. >> there are publications you talked about. what were they? what will people remember about those publications? turkiya: that he expanded the knowledge of the contributions of african americans to american history, to world history. and that was always his aim and goal, to integrate the content into how we look at history in the united states, but also in the world. and he just provided the specific information w

. >> philanthropic efforts like this were started by a nonprofit called my good deed, now known as 9/ted by families who lost loved ones that day, like the bay area's alice hoagland whose son mark bingham was one of the heroes who fought the hijackers of flight 93. >> miss him a lot. >> she wasn't up to attending today's event, but talked over the phone about its special meaning. >> i think it's wonderful that people want to turn the suffering and pain and the horrible memories of 9/11 into something good and joyful. >> this is a way to i feel that we can honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. >> tim murphy says 9/11 inspired him to become a firefighter. >> the sacrifices made that day by all involved, they can never be forgotten. >> organizers say 30 million americans will take time to do a good deed today. these boxes ofood w donated to the san francisco marin food bank. in san francisco, carolyn tyler, abc 7 news. >> you can find continuing coverage of today's 9/11 events by going to our website, abc7news.com. click on the link on our home page. >>> there was sunshine around

mr bezos — reportedly worth more than $164bn — has faced criticism for not doing more philanthropic worksplashing the cash. in total, english clubs spent $1.1; billion in the latest transfer window, which is the highest amount out of europe's top five leagues. outside of those, saudi arabian clubs were the next biggest spenders $152m, closely followed by china. ten years ago tomorrow — on the 15th of september 2008 — investment bank lehman brothers filed for bankruptcy protection. it was the largest bankruptcy in us history — and signalled the start of a global financial crisis whose effects are still being felt today. to end our week long series on the crisis — our asia business correspondent karishma vaswani has been finding out how people in asia were affected. looking back at memories from a different life. ten years ago declan thought he had fought was a dream job, working for lehman brothers in london but then the bank collapsed, in dramatic fashion. it was a sense of shock, that this happened, will be closed down, will be get bored, what will we do? declan survived a pivoting to a

in the community, you can rest assured, shortly with a major campaign to seek the help of the philanthropic community and all to assure our service hub is here to stay. he can assured we are part of the solution -- you can be assured we are part of the solution. it's my extreme pleasure to introduce and welcome our city's honorable mayor london breed and invite her to say a few words. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: i have got to say i am truly honored and excited to be here today. what an amazing, beautiful facility, a welcoming environment for so many families that we all know struggle with homelessness, and that should not be the case. a kid should not have to do their homework in situations that sometimes are not the best. when i first became a member of the board of supervisors and visited our family shelter in our district, i was really heart broken at some of the scenes that i saw and some of the frustration that i had for many of those kids that they were in, many of those kids attend schools right here in san francisco. and one of the things that i'm most proud of is working w

returning the wealth to their workers, but instead the ceos want to get credit, if you will for philanthropic ends. charity begins at home. if you want to talk about the amazon way. let's make sure the amazon way includes wages they clearly can afford to pay. tammy: jobs being available, companies need to go compete for workers. sweeping the pot with benefits, higher wages. better conditions. and that is what it brings when it comes to the free market more money and higher wages. charles: are you concerned as i am or do you think this is an american phase we'll get through despite the fact that corporate america had $3 trillion in the last quarter in profits. if someone out there aren't making more money they will resent that. >> that's right. people will look at that and say jeff bezos is making more money. and the people like bezos need to look at that. >> we are going to update you on the hurricane florence. the latest on the path and the strength it's a menacing looking storm. and the bandits, well, they got rocks. we protected your money then and we're dedicated to helping protect it tod

tom mackenzie sat down with him to talk about his philanthropic vision. >> we have so much resources,alent. we have 600 million people using is almost every month. i worry that if we do not put that kind of love, respect, responsibility into our business model, this giant could destroy a lot of things. do good things, do bad things. technology is very cold, people say, but you have to make the organization warm. people are warm. >> are you succeeding in that mission? >> six years ago, i said we should put 6.3% of the total revenue of alibaba into philanthropy to protect the environment and education. at that time, nobody cared, 0.3%. we had no revenue. now we have a big revenue. we have to do it. it is not 0.3% of the profit, it is the revenue. >> in terms of technology, how do you bring that to play in your vision for transforming education? >> everything we have talked to students in the past 100 years is about knowledge, the science, industry. but in the future, what we teach the kids is about innovation, creative, constructive. how can we do the things that a machine cannot do? th

fairly conservative publications, geared towards the black middle class, geared toward the light philanthropic interests and he started to publish these really biting, trenchant pieces that advocate direct assault, revolutionary practice against the regime of segregation. during wartime, this is sedition. so niekro markers are needed at the time for revolution is now. he's mentioning publications. this didn't sit with the powers that be, so use target to be a target of the fbi raid at this point. chester himes was undaunted. these kind of been surveilled for the rejection, sometimes never faced him and he wrote what many people consider his most daring and averages work right at this moment. 1944, 1945. if you think of native son by richard wright, sells 500 copies in 1940 is having an undercurrent of tension between mary dalton, remember accidentally carried her into her bedroom and appears in the doorway. this novel if he hollers let him go is about the overcurrent of interracial desire. it's a very dramatic story of the book when it goes through the process of publication. chester does meet

julie: and another big interview, jeff bezos, the amazon founder finally outlined his philanthropic plandged to billion dollars of his fortune to preschool programs in low income communities and to provide food and shelter for homeless families. he spoke to david rubenstein. >> i'm interested in early education, the apple does not fall far from the tray. my mother has become head of the bezos family foundation and an expert in early education. i'm a student of montessori , i started a montessori -- at was two years old montessori when i was two years old. the teacher complained that i was to task focused, and she could not get me --too task focused and she had to pick up my chair to move me. and it is still probably true. >> would you say she was responsible for your success? several ofouch with my high school and elementary school teachers, but i don't know any of my montessori school teachers. >> so the gift you are giving is that you will have preschool for children who need preschool. >> full tuition preschool, montessori inspired, i'm very excited about that because i'm going to opt

residents and park advocates like san franciscans to make the matching of the few minutes through the philanthropicungeons and finished and finally able to pull on play on the number one green a celebration on october 7, 1901, a skoovlt for the st. anthony's formed a club and john then the superintendent the golden gate park laid out the bowling green are here sharing meditates a permanent green now and then was opened in 1902 during the course the 1906 san francisco earthquake that citywide much the city the greens were left that with an ellen surface and not readers necessarily 1911 it had the blowing e bowling that was formed in 1912 the parks commission paid laying down down green number 2 the san francisco lawn club was the first opened in the united states and the oldest on the west their registered as san francisco lark one 101 and ti it is not all fierce competition food and good ole friend of mine drive it members les lecturely challenge the stories some may be true some not memories of past winners is reversed presbyterian on the wall of champions. >> make sure you see the one in to the c

he has broad and expansive philanthropic ambitions and he'll continue to be with ali baba, we'll continue on the board of directors as well as part of the influential alibaba partnership. and daniel zhang will have pretty broad power as c.e.o. and chairman, a position that han been consolidated since 201. they want overseas expansion, want to rely on exertainment and cloud computing. i think jack ma will devote time to philanthropy but always be a presence at alibaba. emily: how do you see this, the chinese government is shaping new regulation on gaming and you never know where the chinese government is going to come and try to impact your business next. kevin: sure. i think the gaming situation has a acted tencet more from fundamental standpoint. china will be part of the story. coming from a different place than we came from in terms of management of their country. i think there's risk involved. in terms of competition, jd.com, which has been in the news for other corporate governance reasons, corporate governance related reason this is week, they're a player a meaningful player, but al

. >> prior to his announcement, critics called on him to put more earnings toward philanthropic effortsngeles-based limo company files a lawsuit against uber thing the classification of contractors, instead of employees violates california laws. >> the company claims the ridesharing companies is up to $500 million a year by not paying drivers minimum wage, overtime, expenses and benefits. >> the lawsuit seeks to be certified as a class-action on behalf of all transportation companies such as limousine firms that arrange rides in advance for california passengers and treat their drivers as employees. >>> there was a rally on wall street today with apple climbing nearly 2 1/2% one day after releasing the several line -- line of several new products. >> the snp also rose by 15 points. >>> one of oakland's best athletes of all times was back on a bay area campus today. coming up next, what gary payton was doing hat is alma mater. >>> plenty of sunshine, as well as cool temperatures returning. stone age family. ♪ n ♪ from the town of bedrock. ♪ meet george jetson. ♪ ♪ his boy elroy. with ins

natasha has spent 15 years in the nonprofit and philanthropic centers in san francisco, new york and washington, d.c. specializing in financial analysis and program strategy in organizations like the robin hood foundation, education sector, american institutes for research, and san francisco-based pacific foundation services. natasha joined the board of directors in human rights watch and is board member of beyond 12, whose mission is to increase the number of underrepresented students that graduated from college in the united states. she's also on the board of asha rising, responding to the need of shelter, safety, dignity and care for older women who have aged out of the sex industry in india. she serves on the advisory board of a leading policy organization that protects children from sexual exploitation, and council advocates of freedom fund, which invests in frontline efforts to eradicate modern-day slavery. she is an investor in impact partners, a fund that finances documentaries to address social issues and game-changer, first equity fund that finances narrative feature films

from you if you could tell us a little bit about the rockefeller approach what in general as a philanthropic organization and the era. >> sure. thank you for having me here and thank you all for coming. i want to have -- to extend a special thank you to dean nasser, a diplomat for a while and if you are a student here it is exciting to work with him. i got to learn from him by watching him in action in the last administration so thank you, dean, for having me. i guess i maybe start just by introducing the rockefeller foundation. we are a 105-year-old institution founded by john d. rockefeller senior and he created the institution really to focus on bringing science and expertise and innovation to the task of lifting up humanity as much as possible. and at the time in 1913 or 1914, that was a novel idea. it was before even the federal government aggressively pursued safety net programs and things that create more equity in our world. and so i feel quite honored to be at an institution that has represented science, technology and innovation and expertise alined around that optimistic vision th

in short the philanthropic drive to remake education is a nationwide trend.elizabeth colbert another journalist in her "new yorker" article on philanthropy a couple of weeks ago pointed out the gop's tax reform bill deserves the deduction for charitable contributions by the cash deduction for state and local tax statements which fund among other things education. she writes as possible in a too distant future it will outstrip federal outlays of non-defense discretionary programs like education and the arts. this is all. depressing but remember i said my book is fairly up to eight and i'm known as something of a pollyanna. as i mentioned mike book has a number of positive examples and i wanted to talk for a moment about the 1993 education reform law which i would argue is a very hopeful example. massachusetts as you know is the old standard for education in this country and it out of chiefs other states. on international states it's on par with the top asian nations. of course massachusetts is a relatively wealthy state with low relatively few poor minorities

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