Rev. Steve Pichaske

Dani Genandt

Office 309/243-7300

Evan Penn

Pat Campbell

309/253-3979

 

Kirsten Ryan

309/361-5200

"GIVERS, STEWARDS AND BEING THANKFUL"

I recently read an article about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. The headline to the article stated, “Amazon CEO pledges $2 Billion to Charitable Causes.” I immediately thought to myself, “How cool would it be to wealthy enough to give that much money towards making the world a better place.”

The article, however, was not written to celebrate Bezos’ commitment to building preschools and shelters for the homeless in and around the Seattle area. On the contrary, the article was questioning his generosity. The article noted that Bezos and his wife had previously given more than $15 million to his college alma mater (Princeton)…likely as a precursor to having a building constructed that would bear his name, and several millions to cancer research in Washington state.