Cisco CSR
Four Secrets of One Woman’s Success in the IT Industry
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This post was written by guest blogger Patrice D'Eramo, who, as Vice President of the Americas Field...
Cisco Supports Tech Entrepreneurs in Jordan
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It is Sunday night in Amman, Jordan, and the Jordanian startup scene keeps moving full steam ahead at an event called Dealmakers Weekend, organized by Endeavor, a nonprofit that supports high-impact entrepreneurship and Int@j, a nonprofit representing the Jordan IT industry. The cream of the local startup crop were paired up all day in matchmaking […]
Networking Academy Students Get Hands-On Experience at Cisco Live in Italy
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Cisco Live, our annual training, networking, and education conferences, offer attendees a combination of in-depth technical education and insight from experts and organizations that are setting the agenda for the future of technology and business. This year at Cisco Live in Milan, Italy, it was also an opportunity for 10 Cisco Networking Academy students to […]
Cisco Employee Shares How to Pay it Forward
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This blog was written by Ricardo Benavidez, a government and community relations manager at Cisco, and originally published by Citizen Schools, one of Cisco’s nonprofit partners. If you walk through my neighborhood of East San Jose you will hear this same story told again and again. The story of men and women who have come to this […]
A New Look for Corporate Social Responsibility at Cisco
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For years I suppose I was just like you, pretty cynical about the whole concept of “Corporate” social responsibility. Can an organization be truly socially responsible given the bottom line is selling product? Five years ago I left an industry I loved, education technology, and entered into the amorphous world of corporate social responsibility (CSR). […]
Cisco Launches New Corporate Social Responsibility Website
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Cisco Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has redesigned its external website csr.cisco.com. The new format makes it easy to find and share impact stories that showcase how Cisco CSR is benefiting people, communities, and the planet. Bringing together technology, partnerships, and our expertise are important reasons for the success of Cisco’s CSR public/private partnerships and its […]
Cisco Nonprofit Partner Featured on 60 Minutes for Efforts to End Chronic Homelessness
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Community Solutions, a national nonprofit that Cisco has supported with cash and product grants since 2011, was featured on 60 Minutes this week for its 100,000 Homes Campaign — a collaboration of more than 200 communities working together to collectively house 100,000 chronically homeless people in the United States by July 2014. Our partnership will […]
“Academy Day” Opens Doors for Future Architects of the Internet of Everything
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This post was written by guest blogger Bernd Überbacher of Austria, a top scorer in the 2013 international Cisco Networking Academy NetRiders competitions. He is currently a Cisco Networking Academy student in Innsbruck, Austria and attended the first-ever “Academy Day” at Cisco Live in Milan, Italy, on January 27. As I’m curious by nature, I […]
Cisco is Among Canada’s 10 “Most Admired Corporate Cultures”
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This post was written by guest blogger Nicole Geronimo, who works for Cisco’s Corporate Affairs team in Toronto, Canada. On February 3, Cisco Canada was presented with an award, given by executive search firm Waterstone Human Capital, for being a national winner of Canada’s 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures of 2013. Cisco Canada was among […]
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