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Cisco donates Flip Videos to nonprofits to help them garner support

July 26, 2011 at 11:12 am PST

We are opening an opportunity for nonprofits to use video to tell their stories – helping attract volunteers, financial support and enthusiasm for the causes nonprofits work so tirelessly to address!

Cisco will be donating Flip Video cameras to nonprofit organizations, through a program we launched this week with TechSoup.  Eligible nonprofits and libraries can request up to five bundles of MinoHD (US and Canada) and UltraHD (US only) video cameras.  Read More »

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Cisco Honored with Secretary of State’s 2010 Award for Corporate Excellence

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Cisco along with Denimatrix and Mars, Inc., with the 12th annual Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE). The ACE is given to U.S. businesses that exhibit good corporate citizenship, promote innovation, and advance democratic principles around the world. Cisco received the prestigious ACE for helping to connect the Israeli and Palestinian economies and people, and engaging in several partnerships and initiatives to enhance technical capacity, connectivity, education, and opportunities for women and youth in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.

Secretary Clinton invited Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers “to accept this ACE Award for your efforts to create jobs, improve lives, and lay the groundwork for lasting peace.”

Watch the ACE 2010 ceremony

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton presents Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers with the 2010 ACE

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Cisco Honored with Secretary of State’s 2010 Award for Corporate Excellence

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Cisco along with Denimatrix and Mars, Inc., with the 12th annual Award for Watch the ACE 2010 ceremonyCorporate Excellence (ACE).  The ACE is given to U.S. businesses that exhibit good corporate citizenship, promote innovation, and advance democratic principles around the world.  Cisco received the prestigious ACE for helping to connect the Israeli and Palestinian economies and people, and engaging in several partnerships and initiatives to enhance technical capacity, connectivity, education, and opportunities for women and youth in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.

Secretary Clinton invited Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers “to accept this ACE Award for your efforts to create jobs, improve lives, and lay the groundwork for lasting peace.”

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Talk2Cisco Recap: The Evolution of Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is not what it was a few years ago, and, as we learned in our latest episode of Talk2Cisco, it goes far beyond pure philanthropic efforts. Kathy Mulvany, Senior Director of Corporate Affairs at Cisco and Jennifer Biringer, Director at SustainAbility, a think tank and strategy consultancy based in San Francisco, CA bring their expertise and insights around the evolution of CSR in the latest broadcast.

Highlights from Talk2Cisco: The Evolution of Corporate Social Responsibility

01:34     Definition of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

02:59     Definition of Sustainability

04:02      Misconceptions of CSR

08:15     How Cisco reports CSR

23:43     Emerging trends in sustainability

28:11     Cisco CSR and the environment

Read more about Cisco’s CSR efforts.

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Cisco Releases 2010 Corporate Social Responsibility Report

Today, we released our sixth annual corporate social responsibility (CSR) report.  We are pleased to provide information about the progress we have made, and the work we still have in front of us, in the areas of employee engagement, the environment, corporate governance and ethics, social investments and value chain.

Cisco’s approach to CSR is like other areas of the business where we consider the long term impact that we can have versus taking a purely transactional view.  We encourage you to read more about Cisco’s CSR efforts and tell us what you think.

Watch the video with Tae Yoo, senior vice president of corporate affairs, and John Chambers, Cisco chairman and CEO, discussing why CSR is good for business and society.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOUbdkHtzhc

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