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Giving Voice to Values: Cisco’s Annual Giving Campaign Empowers Employees to Donate to Local Charities
For the second year in a row, Cisco employees around the world are supporting our Be the Bridge: Annual Giving Campaign. While we encourage and match individual philanthropic giving all year long, during this season of thanks and giving we elevate and renew our commitment to think globally and act…
Passing the Torch: Inspiring Girls to Careers in Tech
Inspiration is the name of the game, and Cisco is going for gold! Everywhere you turn, you find Cisco’s people connecting, innovating and driving change to benefit everyone around the world, and Thursday, April 28, 2016 will be no exception. Tomorrow, thousands of Cisco employees will turn our focus…
Coming Soon: Amazing Grace – The True Story of a Computer Science Pioneer
If I told you about a woman who worked on the Mark I and ENIAC Computers in World War II, who was instrumental in solving a key problem of the Manhattan project, and who went on to develop one of the first computer science languages – COBOL – you’d say they should make a movie about her, something s…
A Celebration of STEM Mentoring – the Million Women Mentors Descend on Washington
When it comes to encouraging more students to enter the fields that make up STEM –Science, Technology, Engineering and Math – American faces twin crises. First, how do we meet the looming 1.8 million shortfall in the number of workers who have the technical skills necessary for the jobs of tomorrow?…
Engineering a STEM mentoring moonshot
The following post was originally published in The Hill In 1961, President John F. Kennedy laid out an ambitious goal for our nation – to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In doing so, he inspired a new generation and helped ensure U.S. global leadership in technology for years to co…
Hunger Relief Campaign Brings Out Cisco’s Competitive Spirit
Cisco employees are always ready for some friendly competition for a good cause. During our annual Global Hunger Relief Campaign, our desire to give back brings out the competitive spirit in all of us. The Cisco team in Richardson, Texas, held the official campus-wide kickoff for the Global Hunger R…
The Local Face of Global Hunger
Hunger reveals itself in different ways in different corners of the globe: In India, where 43 percent of the country’s children are underweight, students line up in their school cafeteria for what may be their only meal of the day. In the United Kingdom, people are exchanging vouchers for food at l…