OKR Free Book Festival

Microsoft has a passion for helping the communities in which their employees live and work and they support this passion in a variety of ways. From their annual Giving Campaign to matching employee’s gifts of time and money, Microsoft employees aim to make a difference in their communities every day. In 2023, Microsoft enhanced their Employee Giving Program to make a bigger impact: they increased the matching funds available to each employee to $15,000 (up from $12,000 in previous years), and new Microsoft employees receive $50 to make a donation to their nonprofit of choice.


Special thanks to our very first Microsoft volunteer, Jonathan Tennis, for his tireless support of the Our Kids Read mission. He has helped the organization recruit over 20 Microsoft employee Reading Buddies, volunteers to read remotely with Our Kids Read K-5th graders. Over the last 18 months the volunteer hours spent by these volunteers has equated to over $5,000 in cash gifts from Microsoft to Our Kids Read (Microsoft donates $25 per hour to OKR for every hour a Microsoft employee volunteers).