Smithsonian Offers Jeff Bezos Unusual Naming Rights with $200M Donation

Photo: National Air and Space Museum via Wikimedia Commons. Photo credit: xiquinhosilva – CC BY 2.0. Article by Jasmine Liu. Hyperallergic – January 31, 2022.

Last July, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, announced that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was donating $200 million to the National Air and Space Museum — the biggest gift in the history of the institution. But what the announcement didn’t disclose is that the generous donation came with a catch: Absent from a written agreement between the two sides is a “morals clause,” […]

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