In the spirit of the season: The Family Giving Tree
December 18th, 2008 |
Palantir is an intense place to work. There are people here around the clock (since developers set their own schedules) and folks and equipment arriving and leaving all the time. We’re a very focused bunch, trying to change the world as fast as we can by creating a whole new class of tools.
However, we’re not just people who build software; we’re sons and daughters, mothers and fathers and citizens of our community. As we headed into the holidays, Palantir employees decided to give something back: we signed up with a local organization call The Family Giving Tree, a now national charity that started as an MBA project out of San Jose State University.
The Family Giving Tree is unique in that it allows children to request the presents that they want. In this way, rather than putting money into a black box of a charity, you purchase the gift itself and donate that.
The people of Palantir Technologies purchased over 100 gifts, fulfilling the holiday wishes of the children that asked for them as well as cash donations that will buy gifts for at least 40 more.
Happy Holidays, everyone! We’ll be back next year with more technical articles and information about Palantir.
