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In 2010, Jacki and Gilbert Cisneros won $266 million in a Mega Millions jackpot in California

Before making any big purchases, they launched the Gilbert & Jacki Cisneros Foundation that later funded the Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute at Gil's alma mater in Washington, D.C.

They've since helped hundreds of students, many of them Latino like themselves, prepare for and afford college, including through a scholarship at the University of Southern California

One night in the spring of 2010, as couple Jacki and Gil Cisneros headed to a steak dinner in California (at Outback, a splurge), they played a game of “what if.”

What if they ... won the lottery?

Gil, then between jobs as a manufacturing manager, indulged his wife, who was working the graveyard shift for a local

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