The Chronicle of Philanthropy

From High-Tech Workers to High-Powered Givers

By ELIZABETH GREENE

When Jim Johnson was ready to start giving away some of the money he had earned at Intel Corporation, the computer-hardware expert attacked philanthropy the way he would any engineering problem.

"I said, Okay, I need to get educated about this," he says. Like many high-tech workers, he grew up in a middle-class home, where philanthropy extended only so far as...

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