A friend had a ticket for me to go see Jon Shirley and Greg Whitten's garages - they give away the opportunity each year in the Microsoft GIVE campaign and people donate to charity for the experience. A great fund raiser and all donations get matched by Microsoft. It is so nice of them to share these cars with us and they bring these world class cars to many of the local events. Needless to say they are incredible to see in person. I helped greg open the hood of the GTO -

Every year the Microsoft Corp. has a month where they encourage employee charity giving. Microsoft has an amazing matching gifts policy - they will match dollar for dollar any money, time donated (factored @$25/hour), or securities donated to a charity up to $15,000.00 USD. This allows people to double the impact of their gifts up to that amount. I've never worked at another company with as generous a giving match as this. There are several events that the company promotes