Our Corporate Purpose

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Curious about smart grids? Learn how the digitalization of electric grids is supporting new ways to source and use energy more sustainably.

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Through the Cisco Foundation's $100 million Climate Commitment, we are investing in early-stage climate ventures in Africa.

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Artificial intelligence is the biggest development in tech in a generation. It has the power to make our world a more inclusive place. How we harness the power of AI to design a more equitable world for people with disabilities becomes a question of who is building AI and how they are building it.

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Our ability to impact billions of lives lies in our ability to scale. We’re now expanding our areas of focus to impact entire communities through our Social Impact, Networking Academy, and Country Digital Acceleration programs — to address systemic causes of inequity through innovation and create lasting, generational change.

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Cisco has developed several programs that enable partners to offer customers end-to-end solutions designed with sustainability in mind.

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Cisco Green Team members share ways to help reduce your holiday footprint so you can feel good about the actions you take this season.

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When we combine our business, technology, and a network of partners together with our purpose, we create a powerful force for lasting change. We have some incredible examples from this year in our Power of Purpose report, including the announcement that we achieved our goal of positively impacting 1 billion lives, and did so over a year early.

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In 2021, Cisco announced our partnership with SFI, a nonprofit that supports students attending minority-serving institutions. Our inaugural work with HBCUs created a blueprint that is now expanding to other minority-serving institutions, and LCOOU is the first tribal college beneficiary.

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Cisco Foundation grant partner Vibrant Planet Data Commons uses science, data, and Tribal Forestry to reduce the risk of wildfires.