of the disparity between what's given and received is in silicon valley where a donor advised one called the silicon valley community foundation has received multimillion dollar donations from the likes of netflix founder reed hastings and twitter co-founder jack dorsey and if anyone deserves a tax break the least if they do that took bob's burgers off of netflix and the other dude who claimed that at jack handle so early that my best friend jack had to add seven digits and an underscore after is name just to get in the cow only to have everyone think he's a russian but. in fact none of these guys billionaires need tax breaks when the amount of money going from the silicon valley community foundation to charities in the nine counties bay area actually dropped in twenty seventeen by forty six percent even as the amount of money under management grew by sixty four percent to thirteen and a half billion dollars this reverse robin hood of silicon valley was so notorious that a man named allan cantor who has three decades of experience in nonprofit consulting told the atlantic local nonprofits called the silicon valley community fo

the silicon valley community foundation is here next. robert: we've been talking about how crucial the census is, and i know it may not sound like the most riveting topic, but it is so important that people pay attention and make sure it goes as well as it should. joining us now is our longtime friend, anne im, immigration program manager for the silicon valley community foundation. she was a mover and shaker at aaci, asian americans for community involvement, and on the legislative staff of senator dianne feinstein as well as former san mateo county supervisor rose jacobs gibson. right now, her mission is to make sure at is a fair accurate census. welcome back. anne im: thank you. robert: you heard what nick was talking about. give me an idea here in terms of what you also want people to understand about the census maybe from a community point of view. anne: yeah, it's so important that everyone's engaged, and one of the things that we've been trying to tell people is that there's a role for everyone. so this is one of those issues wher

>> yes, a significant source of the funding was from the silicon valley community foundation via the union square business improvement direct. that was for the security cameras. the office of economic workforce development provided a substantial amount of funding in order to support capacity to building on our programs. t.l. hip through the saint francis foundation and sutter health also were able to provide a significant amount of funding and we'll see that was mostly to support the integration of safe passage into the community benefit district. the board was expanded from 13 to 15 members. there was an annual repeat that developed a strong vision that guided the community benefit district since and they mapped out a plan to hire 4 key staff, director of communications, director of administration, project manager to work on our special projects, and that safe passage senior program director that would allow us to expand the safe passage program with under the tenderloin c.b.d. this is the framework that the board developed at its annual retreat. a community for all the residents in

university community, bringing talent and seens and engineering in to support our darpas and national science foundations and more recently we planted outposts in places like silicon valley to tap into an innovative community that the pentagon hasn't had a relationship with, should we be thinking about the same thing with places like wall street? with places like the banking community? to reach out to get a petr understanding of their drivers and hopefully to attract some of that talent to come back and work with the pentagon on these challenging issues. in particular for example can we get data analytics experts like carolyn was talking about to come and help us think not just about tactical data on the battlefield but data as it reflects the manufacturing problems, data as it reflect -- reflects procurement policy. the last thing i'll mention before i get off the stage, is money. we think about money on capitol hill of course. from a policy perspective, the hill is comfortable in thinking abspending money on fundamental science to promote all the technologies driving both economic scommurt, national security, health care outcomes. investments in universities and invest