Quiet ingenuity: 120,000 lunches and counting from Microsoft to kids who need food

Volunteers from Dining and Eventions at Microsoft, managed by Compass Group USA, arrive to assemble lunches.

Microsoft used its resources and commitment to local employees to make sure children in the area who rely on food from their school and would not have eaten, get lunch during the COVID-19 Crisis.

Every day, 60-65 volunteers from Microsoft’s dining and catering services arrive before dawn. They’ve devised a makeshift assembly-line system to organize and distribute the lunch components and pack them for shipment. Using the open spaces usually bustling with campus lunch-goers or reserved for meetings and conferences, they pack with care, in about three hours, 6,420 lunches for delivery.