The City of Giving
Philanthropy is not just about donating money, it is about making an impact with your money, improving someone’s life, and Bangaloreans seem to understand this only too well.
The Garden City aka Silicon Valley just earned itself a new sobriquet — the City of Giving. To be more precise, three of our citizens have earned our city its new title. A title we can cite with pride, perhaps more pride than Garden City as reports of green cover reduction cloud our thoughts.
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