Jeff Bezos has given Dolly Parton $100 million to donate to charity.
Dolly Parton was honoured by Jeff Bezos
The Amazon boss selected the ‘Jolene’ singer because the recipient of this yr’s Bezos Braveness and Civility Award, which recognises leaders who “pursue options with braveness and civility”.
Jeff’s girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, shared footage of Dolly being given the award.
The information anchor captioned her Instagram submit: “Jeff and I are so proud to share that we have now a brand new Bezos Braveness and Civility Award winner — a lady who provides together with her coronary heart and leads with love and compassion in each side of her work.
“We are able to’t wait to see all the great that you just’re going to do with this $100 million award, @DollyParton. [heart emoji]”
Within the clip, the 76-year-old singer promised to “do good issues with this cash”.
She stated: “Wow! Did you say $100 million?
“When persons are ready to assist, it’s best to assist. And I do know that I’ve all the time stated, I attempt to put my cash the place my coronary heart is. And I feel you do the identical factor.
“I’ll do my finest to do good issues with this cash.”
Through the years, Dolly has based various charities, together with the Dollywood Basis and famously donated $1 million to Vanderblit College’s Medical Heart to assist develop a vaccine through the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ‘9 to five’ hitmaker additionally based the Creativeness Library, a scheme that sends children one e-book a month from beginning till they start faculty, and just lately defined she was impressed to take action after seeing her father really feel “crippled” about not with the ability to learn or write.
She stated: “My dad, although he couldn’t learn nor write, he was one of many smartest individuals I’ve ever identified. He had twelve children so he had to determine easy methods to feed them. He knew easy methods to get out and make a buck.
“He felt crippled by the truth that he could not learn and write. It used to interrupt my coronary heart that he felt ashamed that he could not learn or write.
“I informed Daddy, ‘You would be shocked to know what number of thousands and thousands of individuals on this world cannot learn or write’. I attempted to make him really feel nearly as good about that as I may.”
Jeff, 58, launched his award in 2001, with activist Van Jones the primary winner.
