An Open Letter to MacKenzie Scott

The Amazon Labor Union could use your help.

Dear MacKenzie Scott:

I am writing you with a modest proposal. Give the Amazon Labor Union a million dollars.

You have already done many admirable things with your money, giving away more than $12.4 billion since you started fulfilling your Giving Pledge in 2019. You have been clear, in your own writing, that you want to use your resources to support “powerful levers for change.” You have declared your “conviction that people who experience with inequities are the ones best equipped to design solutions.” You have chosen to prioritize organizations run by leaders of color.

You have told us that you are “governed by a humbling belief that it would be better if disproportionate wealth were not concentrated in a small number of hands” and that “people working to build power from within their communities are the agents of change.”

You’ve dared to seek out and support innovative organizations working on the margins of mainstream philanthropy and chosen to elevate groups that seek to shift our culture and inspire us with visions of a better future.

You’ve paid “special attention” to organizations “operating in communities facing high projected food insecurity, high measures of racial inequity…