Nintendo Emplyees Donate Food

First Nintendo donates 1000 doors, now its employees donate food.

Nintendo of America employees opened their cupboards, wallets and hearts to donate 4 tons of food to Northwest Harvest. The massive donation ensures that those who need food the most will have it on their tables for Thanksgiving. Together with Mario himself, the 4 tons of food were loaded into a Northwest Harvest truck to be delivered to some of the 300 food banks the statewide organization supplies.

"Northwest Harvest tells us that food donations in the area are down 38 percent from last year, so our employees even went so far as to hold competitions to see which division could collect the most food," said Perrin Kaplan, Nintendo of America's vice president of marketing & corporate affairs. "During the past few weeks, it's become commonplace to see employees arrive at work with trunks loaded with pounds of pasta, huge sacks of pancake mix and so many cans of vegetables they can't carry them all."

The more than 800 employees at Nintendo's Redmond offices each donated an average of 10 pounds of food. The company itself also made a $5,000 donation to Northwest Harvest.

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