Oprah donates $10 million to coronavirus relief efforts

[left-of-center2012]

Oprah Winfrey is the latest public figure to open her wallet amid the coronavirus pandemic, donating $10 million to "help Americans."

The OWN founder and former talk show titan said Thursday that $1 million of her donation would go to America's Food Fund. The initiative, co-founded by actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Laurene Powell Jobs, was launched Thursday with support from Apple and the Ford Foundation with the aim of providing hunger relief to communities affected by the coronavirus.

"I know everybody can't donate a million dollars but I feel like this is the central place to go if you really want to do something," Winfrey, 66, told chef José Andrés and Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot.

Winfrey, who was raised in Mississippi and Tennessee, said her other donations would go to helping Americans "in cities across the country and in areas where I grew up."

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/490774-oprah-donates-10-million-to-coronavirus-relief-efforts

[dlk]

1. Brava to Oprah!

Let’s see how many other billionaires step up.

[gibraltar72]

2. The company from which I'm retired announced double matching grant for

Feeding America. I gave and it is essentially tripled. Been with them since 1974. Never ever tripled anything.