I understand your argument but frankly I don't buy it. I don't think filling up inefficient bins of food on closed tech campus is visible to anyone outside the

I understand your argument but frankly I don't buy it. I don't think filling up inefficient bins of food on closed tech campus is visible to anyone outside the company; I don't see the potential for impact. I'll be completely honest: I think much of this anti-tech sentiment (such as: tech people don't give) is wishful thinking and willfully divorced from reality. Most large tech companies have public giving foundations and publicize their donation programs. Here are a few examples: http://csr.cisco.com/pages/employee-volunteers http://csr.cisco.com/pages/employee-volunteers https://www.google.com/giving/ https://www.google.com/giving/ http://ef.siliconvalleycf.org/blog/yahoo-employee-foundation http://ef.siliconvalleycf.org/blog/yahoo-employee-foundation http://www.microsoft.com/about/technicalrecognition/charity-outreach.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/about/technicalrecognition/charity-... These kinds of programs are strongly promoted at most tech companies. A large amount of giving happens outside these programs as well, but they do help establish a baseline well in excess of any food drive. While trying to dig up the data for some of the bigger tech companies in the area I also stumbled across this report, which claims that area workers not only donate above the average but spend significantly more of their time actually going out into the community http://ef.siliconvalleycf.org/blog/bay-area-companies-giving-levels-exceed-national-average http://ef.siliconvalleycf.org/blog/bay-area-companies-giving... The article throws around the term "average" a lot which tends to raise my eyebrows, but it does mesh with my anecdotal experience that tech workers on the whole care a lot more about their community in the bay area than workers in general in other regions of the USA.