Bezos gives big to Fred Hutch

Mary Bruno

Mary Bruno Jul 7, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Bezos gives big to Fred Hutch</h1>
                <h2><p>Jeff Bezos is on a local donation roll. Geekwire sez the Amazon CEO and his family just wrote a $20 million check (their second, the first was for $10 million) to Seattle’s renowned Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The money is earmarked for the research into “novel cancer immunotherapies”</p></h2>
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            <p>Jeff Bezos is on a local donation roll. <a href="http://www.geekwire.com/2014/jeff-bezos-donates-20-million-fred-hutchinson-cancer-research-center/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Geekwire sez</a> the Amazon CEO and his family just wrote a $20 million check (their second, the first was for $10 million) to Seattle’s renowned Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The money is earmarked for the research into “novel cancer immunotherapies”— a Hutch specialty. Jeff B. has also donated $10 million to MOHAI's new <a href="http://www.geekwire.com/2013/bezos-center-innovation/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Bezos Center for Innovation</a> and, more recentrly, invested in local startup <a href="http://www.geekwire.com/2014/bezos-juno/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Juno Therapeutics</a>, another cancer research outfit.As for the Hutch gift, the Bezos family's 2009 contribution helped fund research that is paying off for patients with certain kinds of leukemia and lymphoma. “Seeing our initial investment translated into a therapy that is truly changing patients’ lives in a profound way is so motivating," said Jeff's mom Jackie Bezos, in a press release. "It gives us great optimism for the future.” Us too. (And have we mentioned Crosscut's Spring Member Drive?) — M.B.</p>
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Jeff Bezos is on a local donation roll. Geekwire sez the Amazon CEO and his family just wrote a $20 million check (their second, the first was for $10 million) to Seattle’s renowned Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The money is earmarked for the research into “novel cancer immunotherapies”— a Hutch specialty. Jeff B. has also donated $10 million to MOHAI's new Bezos Center for Innovation and, more recentrly, invested in local startup Juno Therapeutics, another cancer research outfit.As for the Hutch gift, the Bezos family's 2009 contribution helped fund research that is paying off for patients with certain kinds of leukemia and lymphoma. “Seeing our initial investment translated into a therapy that is truly changing patients’ lives in a profound way is so motivating," said Jeff's mom Jackie Bezos, in a press release. "It gives us great optimism for the future.” Us too. (And have we mentioned Crosscut's Spring Member Drive?) — M.B.

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By Mary Bruno

Mary was Crosscut's Editor-in-Chief and Interim Publisher. In more than 25 years as a journalist, she has worked as a writer, editor and editorial director for a variety of print and web publications,