{"id":25099,"date":"2020-05-21T18:29:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T01:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25099"},"modified":"2020-05-21T18:29:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T01:29:35","slug":"billionaires-give-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25099","title":{"rendered":"BILLIONAIRES GIVE BACK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A $5 million donation from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will go toward thousands of \u201cmicro-grants\u201d distributed by a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zrzdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqdddzwm_frgdjjhshwdjyqdqdbsq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zrzdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqdddzwm_frgdjjhshwdjyqdqdbsq.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1590189018909000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFkZFp41Se2X-PLU5y41ll7-sAgnQ\">COVID-19 relief program<\/a>\u00a0launched by former Democratic presidential candidate\u00a0Andrew Yang\u2019s nonprofit Humanity Forward.<\/p>\n<p>Dorsey announced his donation on an episode of Yang\u2019s podcast, \u201cYang Speaks,\u201d that launched Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Dorsey\u2019s donation will go toward Humanity Forward\u2019s direct cash assistance program, providing $250 micro-grants to nearly 20,000 people amid the coronavirus pandemic, the nonprofit announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire CEO also announced his donation in a tweet Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;$5mm to\u00a0@HumanityForward\u00a0to immediately distribute small cash grants of $250 to nearly 20,000 people who\u2019ve lost their jobs or taken an economic hit as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thank you\u00a0@AndrewYang!&#8221; he tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $5 million donation from Twitter&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25100,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25099\/revisions\/25100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}