Oprah Winfrey is pitching in to help with relief efforts in the Maui wildfires.
is no stranger to giving a leg up to those in need, on micro and macro levels. For example, after Hurricane Katrina, shefor displaced people who had lost their homes, contributed millions of dollars of her own, and coordinated millions more in donations from others.
Now, she’s pitching in to help with relief efforts in the Maui wildfires—a disaster that’s incredibly close to home for the media mogul.Peter Thiel , among others, also own homes there. The death toll from the disaster is at 55 and is expected to rise, local officials have said. More than 11,000 people have
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