Jeff Bezos donates $33 million to help send 1,000 Dreamers to college
With his newly minted title as the world's richest person, Amazon's Jeff Bezos announced on Friday that he is donating a piece of his $108 billion fortune to fund 1,000 college scholarships for "Dreamers."
TheDream.US, the nation's largest scholarship program for Dreamers, said Bezos donated $33 million in a scholarship grant--one of largest grants in the organization's history--to give 1,000 undocumented immigrant high school graduates who are part of the Deferred Action for Children Arrivals (DACA) program the opportunity to go to college.
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