Bezos on Donation Spree Gives Obama Foundation $100 Million

Jeff Bezos is giving $100 million to the Obama Foundation, the largest single gift former President Barack Obama’s philanthropic organization has received and just the latest in a string of high-profile donations by the world’s second-richest person.

The gift, in honor of the late-Congressman John Lewis, will “help expand the scope of programming that reaches emerging leaders in the United States and around the world,” Courtney Williams, a spokesperson for the foundation, said in a statement. “As part of the gift, Bezos has asked for the plaza at the Obama Presidential Center to be named the John Lewis Plaza.”