Three checks for a million dollars each with instructions to give them away. What was the catch?

Brooke Allwood had a problem. She was owner and CEO of a company she didn't want to run, at odds with family members, and amassing more money than she could ever spend. She generously gave to dozens of charities, but wasn't there a way to anonymously give millions of dollars to ordinary, hardworking people who would put it to good use?