Stories of positive impact pour in at Cisco Live Barcelona
We’re halfway to our goal of positively impacting 1B lives by 2025. At Cisco Live Barcelona, the immersive Rain Wall offers a deeper look at some of the positive results.
Our Corporate Purpose
Welcome to Our Corporate Purpose blog! We highlight our work and initiatives benefitting our people, communities, and the planet, and helping to Power an Inclusive Future for All.
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Our Corporate Purpose
How Destination: Home works to make homelessness in Silicon Valley rare, brief and nonrecurring
Cisco has moved to address this serious and growing crisis of inequality in our backyard. In 2018, we committed to donate $50 million over five years to help Destination: Home catalyze public funding and launch the Supportive Housing & Innovation
How one NGO helps farmers use mobile phones to invest in a better harvest
myAgro is a Cisco nonprofit partner addressing critical human needs. Read on to find out how they are supporting smallholder farmers in Africa.
How Arizona eighth graders find solutions to the community’s toughest social problems
Eighth grade social studies teacher Edgar Ochoa was excited to implement the Global Problem Solvers: The Series (GPS: The Series) supplemental curriculum, but he wasn’t entirely sure how his students were going to react.
Corporate Knights and CDP Announce Global Sustainability Leaders
Earlier this week, both CDP and Corporate Knights announced the results of their 2019 assessment of thousands of global companies in the areas of climate change (CDP) and the broader topic of sustainability (Corporate Knights). Read on to see how we
The Digital Readiness Index: transforming economies through technology
Understanding a country’s digital readiness helps give insight to what specific investments or interventions could help a country move up in their digital journey, creating jobs and increasing quality of life for residents.
How a nonprofit partner in education uses tech to bring educational content to those without the internet
According to the World Economic Forum, more than four billion people lack access to the internet. At the same time, Open Educational Resources (OER) are changing the way people learn by offering free opportunities to anyone with an internet connection.
Non-profit spotlight: How TalkingPoints breaks barriers between teachers and parents
TalkingPoints has been a Cisco Foundation grantee since 2011, thanks to their success using technology to improve student learning outcomes. To learn more about them read on.
Connecting the dots from skills to careers: Inside Cisco’s Networking Academy
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. Here are some of their stories.
