Oprah Donates $10 Million To Coronavirus Relief Efforts!
Oprah is stepping up! The OWN founder and former talk show host is now the latest public figure to get in her wallet and help those in need during the coronavirus pandemic!
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Winfrey announced Thursday that she is donating a total of $10 million dollars. She took to Instagram this morning to share that $1M of the big donation will go towards America’s Food Fund. The initiative, which is co-founded by actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Laurene Powell Jobs, was launched today with support from Apple and the Ford Foundation. It will benefit two hunger and food relief organizations: celebrity chef José Andrés’s Feeding America and World Central Kitchen, led by CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot.
“I feel like this is the central place to go if you really want to do something,” Oprah said during an interview with Andres and Babineaux-Fontenot during her latest episode of Oprah Talks on Apple. “Everybody who’s sitting at home and thinking ‘I don’t know what to do and I don’t know where to give my money to,’ I know I can trust my money in your hands, Feeding America and World Central Kitchen, thank you so much.”
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.”
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