Corporate Social Responsibility
Stories of positive impact pour in at Cisco Live Barcelona
In 2016, Cisco committed to positively impact one billion lives by 2025. We will achieve this goal through our social impact grants to nonprofits and our signature corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs, like Cisco Networking Academy. Four years into our commitment, we are 47 percent of the…
How Destination: Home works to make homelessness in Silicon Valley rare, brief and nonrecurring
The following is an excerpt from the 2019 CSR report. A place to call home Every night in America, more than half a million people go to sleep homeless. An even greater number are at risk of becoming homeless— just a missed paycheck or unexpected medical bill away from a night on the street. Sal and…
How one NGO helps farmers use mobile phones to invest in a better harvest
This is the third article in a series of blog posts that describe how Cisco enables nonprofits to maximize technology for greater scale and impact. Our introduction to the series is available here. To read more articles in the series, click here. Stay tuned for next week’s post on how a nonprofit th…
How Arizona eighth graders find solutions to the community’s toughest social problems
Even for seasoned teachers implementing a new curriculum is nerve wracking. You never know how the students are going to respond – and if they are middle school students it’s even more difficult to predict. The experience was no different for eighth grade social studies teacher Edgar Ochoa. Ed…
Corporate Knights and CDP Announce Global Sustainability Leaders
Earlier this week, both CDP and Corporate Knights announced the results of their 2020 assessment of thousands of global companies in the areas of climate change (CDP) and the broader topic of sustainability (Corporate Knights). At the 2020 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos Switzerland Corporate Kn…
The Digital Readiness Index: transforming economies through technology
The following is an excerpt from the 2019 CSR report. Advances in data and technology have the potential to create a new kind of economic divide, one separating those with digital capabilities from those without. Cisco wants to help more countries and states get ahead. We’re doing so with our Countr…
How a nonprofit partner in education uses tech to bring educational content to those without the internet
This is the second article in a series of blog posts that describe how Cisco enables nonprofits to maximize technology for greater scale and impact. Our introduction to the series is available here. To read more articles in the series, click here. Stay tuned for next week’s post on how a nonprofit t…
Non-profit spotlight: How TalkingPoints breaks barriers between teachers and parents
UNESCO reports that as many as one fifth of school-age children worldwide are not in school. Close to 617 million children who are attending school are not meeting the minimum proficiency guidelines in reading and mathematics. This must change! TalkingPoints has been a Cisco Foundation grantee since…
Connecting the dots from skills to careers: Inside Cisco’s Networking Academy
The following is an excerpt from the 2019 CSR report. Access to opportunity can change lives and change communities. Cisco Networking Academy partners with educators, governments, and employers to bring global and inclusive access to digital skills to millions of people. Because the workforce of the…
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