Today, I’m thrilled to announce I am launching the Bezos Earth Fund.
Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet. I want to work alongside others both to amplify known ways and to explore new ways of fighting the devastating impact of climate change on this planet we all share. This global initiative will fund scientists, activists, NGOs — any effort that offers a real possibility to help preserve and protect the natural world. We can save Earth. It’s going to take collective action from big companies, small companies, nation states, global organizations, and individuals.
I’m committing $10 billion to start and will begin issuing grants this summer. Earth is the one thing we all have in common — let’s protect it, together.
– Jeff
I got this email from a customer and wanted to share my response.
I got this email from a customer and wanted to share my response.
#Regram
@Amazon Today’s visits by our founder and CEO @JeffBezos to say thank you to Amazon fulfillment center and @WholeFoods employees. We’re all incredibly proud of the thousands of our colleagues working on the front lines to get critical goods to people everywhere during this crisis.
Thank you to my amazing mom. She’s my fiercest supporter, my friend, and one kind lady! I love you, mom. Happy Mother’s Day!
Luna, it was time…
I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% @lizzobeeating’s biggest fan. #SBLIV
Discussing climate, sustainability, and preserving the natural world with President @emmanuelmacron today in Paris. #BezosEarthFund #ClimatePledge Paris, France
In a call with @GovInslee, I thanked him for the Herculean efforts he and his team have undertaken and for his leadership during this unsettling time. I emphasized that the most important need is plentiful testing capacity everywhere, and pledged Amazon’s continuing help with logistics, jobs, and working to get critical supplies to those in need.
I’m so happy to share this. Today, along with @MarysPlaceWA, we’ve opened the largest family homeless shelter in Washington state. It’s housed inside one of Amazon’s buildings at our headquarters here in Seattle. This shelter spans eight floors — including a health clinic and critical tools to help families in need get back on their feet. Thanks to Mary’s Place for their partnership in bringing this creative solution to life. #NoChildSleepsOutside
I’m so happy to share this. Today, along with @MarysPlaceWA, we’ve opened the largest family homeless shelter in Washington state. It’s housed inside one of Amazon’s buildings at our headquarters here in Seattle. This shelter spans eight floors — including a health clinic and critical tools to help families in need get back on their feet. Thanks to Mary’s Place for their partnership in bringing this creative solution to life. #NoChildSleepsOutside
I’m so happy to share this. Today, along with @MarysPlaceWA, we’ve opened the largest family homeless shelter in Washington state. It’s housed inside one of Amazon’s buildings at our headquarters here in Seattle. This shelter spans eight floors — including a health clinic and critical tools to help families in need get back on their feet. Thanks to Mary’s Place for their partnership in bringing this creative solution to life. #NoChildSleepsOutside
I’m so happy to share this. Today, along with @MarysPlaceWA, we’ve opened the largest family homeless shelter in Washington state. It’s housed inside one of Amazon’s buildings at our headquarters here in Seattle. This shelter spans eight floors — including a health clinic and critical tools to help families in need get back on their feet. Thanks to Mary’s Place for their partnership in bringing this creative solution to life. #NoChildSleepsOutside
A message to all Amazon employees.
A message to all Amazon employees.
A message to all Amazon employees.
A message to all Amazon employees.
The pain and emotional trauma caused by the racism and violence we are witnessing toward the black community has a long reach. I recommend you take a moment to read this powerful essay from @goldinggirl617, especially if you’re a manager or leader.
“We’re biting our tongues, swallowing our rage and fighting back tears to remain professional because expressing that hurt caused by witnessing black death is considered more unprofessional, than black men and women actually being killed. So if you can, please, be mindful. Your black employees are dealing with a lot.”
A link to the whole essay is in my bio.
Good call with @WHO Director-General @DrTedros today on the global response to #COVID19 and the ways @Amazon and @AmazonWebServices are helping their efforts. Our current work with WHO includes: increasing capacity and security for the WHO website; providing ML & AI for WHO’s Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources initiative; assisting with the translation and transcription of WHO’s knowledge catalogue; providing logistics support. We also discussed the urgent need for collective action to produce and distribute plentiful COVID-19 test kits. A surplus of fast, effective, easy-to-access test kits would flatten the curve and protect people around the world. I told Dr. Tedros we will continue to help WHO in every way we can in the coming weeks and months.
Even in ordinary times, food insecurity in American households is an important problem, and unfortunately COVID-19 is amplifying that stress significantly. Non-profit food banks and food pantries rely in large part on surplus food from a range of food businesses. For example, many restaurants donate excess food. But during this time of social distancing, restaurants are closed, and many other normal channels of excess food have also shut down. To make matters worse, as supply is dwindling, demand for food bank services is going up.
Today, I want to support those on the front lines at our nation’s food banks and those who are relying on them for food with a $100 million gift to @FeedingAmerica. Feeding America will quickly distribute the funds to their national network of food banks and food pantries, getting food to those countless families who need it.
Feeding America is the largest non-profit focused on food security. Millions of Americans are turning to food banks during this time. If you want to help, the link to Feeding America is in my bio. They’d be excited and grateful for donations of any size.
It’s so great that The @WashingtonPost Pulitzer win is for climate reporting. Huge kudos to the whole team. Link to the winning story in bio. #ClimatePledge
Let’s say you’re at a big cocktail party and someone you don’t know comes up to you while you’re talking to your dad and girlfriend and asks for a meeting. Let’s say this person is the kind of person who actually uses the word “minions” to describe the people who work for you.
How do you respond:
A) Yes, I’ll definitely meet with you.
B) No, I won’t meet with you.
C) Tell you what. Call so and so and they’ll work something out.
D) Quietly resolve to become a shut-in.
E) Something else (fill in the blank)
A Seinfeld “Serenity Now!” button (second pic) for whoever comes up with the best answer.
Let’s say you’re at a big cocktail party and someone you don’t know comes up to you while you’re talking to your dad and girlfriend and asks for a meeting. Let’s say this person is the kind of person who actually uses the word “minions” to describe the people who work for you.
How do you respond:
A) Yes, I’ll definitely meet with you.
B) No, I won’t meet with you.
C) Tell you what. Call so and so and they’ll work something out.
D) Quietly resolve to become a shut-in.
E) Something else (fill in the blank)
A Seinfeld “Serenity Now!” button (second pic) for whoever comes up with the best answer.
#Regram
@StephRuhle Our #HeroOfTheDay are all of the distribution center workers putting their lives on the line every day to go to work and keep up with the high demand of online orders needing to be shipped out.
Meet Richard Hanna. He is a general manager at an Amazon facility in Fall River, MA. He leads a team that distributes mainly toilet paper, hand sanitizer and diapers to those who need them. Thank you to all who are still going to work every day for us — you’re making a remarkable difference.
