Laurene Powell Jobs donates $3.5 billion to climate change group
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Philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs, will invest $3.5 billion over the next 10 years to address the climate crisis.
The money will go to the Waverley Street Foundation, an organization Steve Jobs set up in 2016, and focus on "initiatives and ideas to help underserved communities most impacted by climate change," a spokesperson for Emerson Collective, Jobs' organization, said on Monday. "Efforts will focus on housing, transportation, food security and health."
Jobs has done most of her work through Emerson Collective, which focuses on education, immigration reform and environmental causes, and has other media investments and grants in film, TV production and journalism.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.