{"id":82559,"date":"2018-09-14T02:22:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T09:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/amazons-jeff-bezos-launches-a-2-billion-day-one-fund-to-help-homeless-families-and-create-preschools"},"modified":"2018-09-15T12:09:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T19:09:19","slug":"amazons-jeff-bezos-launches-a-2-billion-day-one-fund-to-help-homeless-families-and-create-preschools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/amazons-jeff-bezos-launches-a-2-billion-day-one-fund-to-help-homeless-families-and-create-preschools","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s Jeff Bezos launches a $2 billion \u2018Day One Fund\u2019 to help homeless families and create preschools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazons-jeff-bezos-launches-a-2-billion-day-one-fund-to-help-homeless-families-and-create-preschools.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fund will launch with a $2 billion commitment, split between the Day 1 Families Fund \u2014 helping homeless families \u2014 and the Day 1 Academies Fund \u2014 creating a \u201cnetwork of new, non-profit, tier-one preschools in low-income communities,\u201d Bezos said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As CEO of Amazon, founder of rocket company Blue Origin and owner of The Washington Post, Bezos is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/07\/16\/jeff-bezos-is-now-the-richest-man-in-modern-history.html\">wealthiest man in modern history<\/a>, with a net worth of at least $150 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have long called for him to put his billions toward philanthropic efforts.<\/p>\n<p>In June, Bezos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/06\/14\/amazon-jeff-bezos-teased-plans-to-give-away-some-of-his-140-billion.html\">teased that he had identified two areas<\/a> of focus for future charitable endeavors.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/09\/13\/bezos-launches-day-one-fund-to-help-homeless-families-and-create-preschools.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/09\/13\/bezos-launches-day-one-fund-...hools.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fund will launch with a $2 billion commitment, split between the Day 1 Families Fund \u2014 helping homeless families \u2014 and the Day 1 Academies Fund \u2014 creating a \u201cnetwork of new, non-profit, tier-one preschools in low-income communities,\u201d Bezos said. As CEO of Amazon, founder of rocket company Blue Origin and owner of The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82631,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82559\/revisions\/82631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}