Following Mark's lead, I have also donated some money to the Red Cross and Care for their Tsunami relief efforts. I have been thinking about doing this few the last few days, and I saw yesterday on Omar Shahine's blog that Microsoft matched his donation. I thought it would be really cool if EDS did that -- and lo and behold, I had a message from the CEO in my inbox this morning, claiming exactly that. So, I just donated some money, and got EDS to double it.
I am starting to feel rather impressed at how different companies are contributing to the welfare of the world. After spending the last several election cycles mired in cynicism, this Tsunami thing has been refreshing (excluding the massive loss of life, of course).
-Andy.
Posted by andyr at January 4, 2005 2:44 PMFor a full list of the corporate contributions look here. So far it looks like the industry taking most of the heat these days is also doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Pharmaceutical companies, particularly Pfizer, are schooling everyone else.
While some cynicism is justified in the fact that this is just really cheap advertising and a tax deduction, this is all money that could have stayed in their coffers high atop Snake Mountain earning interest or getting rolled back into the company.