I help with a youth community center. Our "big project" is a weekly funtime/dinner where we pick up kids from the Section 8 housing complexes and take them to the center. We get food donations from Panera Bread (great organization) to send home with them. We also have video games and some non high tech games so they can just be kids. A lot of the kids don't get to be kids in their situation. We'll sometimes have kids come to us and say things like "my dad told me to come to this so I could have a big hot dinner." I hope to never have to tell my son or daughter that, then send them out on a bus/van with a stranger.

It really puts things into perspective. As fulfilling as hacking and entrepreneurship is, sometimes getting free bread matters more.