Microsoft losing its corporate gift-giver
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
Microsoft needs someone new to give away its millions. Bruce Brooks, the executive who has led the software company's philanthropic program for more than three years, has decided to leave Microsoft and reunite with former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice, under whom Brooks was deputy mayor. Brooks, 44, plans to begin work next month as director of corporate and community affairs at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle, where Rice is chief executive officer. As Microsoft's director of community affairs, Brooks oversees the company's corporate giving program, which donated nearly $40 million in cash and $207 million in software last year.