technology scale nonprofits
How a digital data collection tool is helping humanitarians
This is the sixth 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. According to The United Nations Office for the Coordi…
Digital Green: Providing for those who provide for others
The following is an excerpt from the 2019 CSR report. Smallholder farmers produce more than 80 percent of the world’s food. But they also make up 80 percent of the world’s poorest people, which means they often lack the resources to grow their businesses. Digital Green, a Cisco social investment par…
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…
How a nonprofit partner in economic empowerment provides tech training to survivors of human trafficking
This is the first 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 us…
Tae Yoo, Cisco’s Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs on Cisco’s CSR Philosophy
The following is an excerpt from the 2019 CSR report. Tae Yoo leads Cisco’s social investments and stewards CSR and sustainability across the business. She directs Cisco’s business, technical, and financial assets to accelerate global problem solving to positively impact people, societ…
How non-profits use technology to scale impact
We’re launching a series of blog posts to demonstrate how Cisco enables nonprofits to maximize technology for greater scale and impact. We’ll be looking at our three portfolio areas – economic empowerment, education, and critical human needs – and some of the nonprofits we support to tel…
Nonprofit Spotlight: Education for the Globalization 4.0 Era
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! Gooru has been a Cisco Foundation grantee since 2011,…
Have You Joined the Pledge?
At Cisco, making an impact is something our Corporate Affairs team works toward every day. In 2016, we announced a goal to positively impact one billion people with digital solutions by 2025. Today we are proud to have impacted over 445M people through investing in tomorrow’s social change agents an…
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