{"id":968,"date":"2021-08-19T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=968"},"modified":"2025-09-29T05:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:16:08","slug":"jesuit-outreach-receives-20-million-for-jeff-bezos-ex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Jesuit outreach receives $20 million from Jeff Bezos ex"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great. Mackenzie Scott<\/a>.   And she's remarried a school teacher after 25 years of marriage and four children (one daughter adopted from China) with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. <\/p>\n

Here's the recipient group – this link is a three minute video – Homeboy Industries 2020 | Stories Behind the Mission<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

And an article from the Jesuit publication America –<\/span><\/p>\n

Homeboy Industries, believed to be the world\u2019s largest reentry organization for formerly incarcerated and gang-involved men and women, is undergoing what board member the Rev. Allan Figueroa Deck, a Jesuit priest, sees as a \u2018quantum leap\u2019 in economic stability.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Homeboy<\/a><\/p>\n

The Los Angeles-based nonprofit founded by the Rev. Gregory Boyle has received $15 million in long-term funding from the state of California<\/a> and a $20 million gift from billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott<\/a>, the former spouse of Jeff Bezos.<\/p>\n

This is the first time the organization has received this level of funding and monetary gifts, which, Deck said, will \u201creally bring the organization to a new level of capacity\u201d to serve people who have been in prison and involved in gangs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will assure a level of stability in this really important work that it never has had before,\u201d said Deck, who serves on Homeboy Industries\u2019 board of directors.<\/p>\n

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For Deck, the new level of funding signals a shifting mindset around criminal justice. He highlighted the words of Pope Francis, who has talked about a church called \u201cto be a missionary,\u201d in a world that is experiencing \u201ca change of epoch,\u201d as noted by America<\/strong> Magazine.<\/a><\/p>\n

Deck acknowledges that this change is \u201cnot just in the church … but rather in our whole world.\u201dIt might sound a bit utopian, Deck said, but he added: \u201cNow what we\u2019re seeing is, this is real money.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is real commitment. This is a real track record. These are solid outcomes in dealing with what is a very ongoing issue that we\u2019ve had not just in our country, but in the world, about the whole question of the rehabilitation of people who break the law,\u201d Deck said. \u201cIt\u2019s really quite extraordinary.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Great. Mackenzie Scott.   And she's remarried a school teacher after 25 years of marriage and four children (one daughter adopted from China) with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.  Here's the recipient group – this link is a three minute video – Homeboy Industries 2020 | Stories Behind the Mission And an article from the Jesuit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7448,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/7448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}