Donating and charity

[lrcutter]

As ya'll may or may not know, I now work for Salesforce.com. A large part of this company is The Foundation, which is the charitable branch of the company. The Foundation was created within a year after the company was formed, before they had their IPO

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[amysisson]

Thank you -- this is really useful information that I'll be saving.

My in-laws tend to shower us with Canadian and British food every Christmas, and several occasions throughout the year: Nainaimo bar mix (an extremely complicated, even in mix form, unhealthy dessert), canned sticky toffee pudding, Hollondaise sauce packets, etc. My husband has lost his taste for a lot of this stuff, and recognizes that most of these products are essentially fat and sugar. So we don't want it and we hate to throw it away, but even I know that there's no point in donating this stuff to a food bank. Nobody will have heard of most of it so they won't know what to do with it, and it's hardly healthy or even reasonable food. So mostly we try to find British friends who might want it

[amysisson]

P.S. I'm impressed with your company's policy.

[ely_jan]

I'm blown away by your company's policy - it's sad that it's not the norm, that it is so very surprising. How amazing to be part of that.