Microsoft Citizenship Blog
Who are the world’s most ethical companies?
The Ethisphere Institute, an international think-tank focused on the creation, advancement and...
Author: Microsoft Citizenship Team Date: 03/15/2012
Community technology centers can provide critical emergency infrastructure
Guest post by Maria Garrido, Research Assistant Professor, Information School, University of...
Author: Microsoft Citizenship Team Date: 03/06/2012
Technology keeps precious dollars focused on affordable home-building
Two days before Nancy Andrew’s official promotion from Deputy Director to Executive Director...
Author: Microsoft Citizenship Team Date: 02/29/2012
Helping nonprofits understand Microsoft employee giving
A couple of weeks ago we announced the results of the 2011 Microsoft employee giving campaign. ...
Author: Microsoft Citizenship Team Date: 02/24/2012
Microsoft’s Software Donation Policy
By Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director, Citizenship and Public Affairs, Microsoft From time to time, we...
Author: Microsoft Citizenship Team Date: 02/16/2012
Did you hear about our 35,500 employee philanthropists?
We share one the best part-time jobs in the world. As co-chairs of the annual Microsoft Giving...
Author: Microsoft Citizenship Team Date: 02/08/2012
Microsoft Imagine Cup and Kodu Cup winners go to the White House
Earlier today, three outstanding students, David Hayden, Hannah Wyman, and Jacen Sherman –...
Author: Microsoft Citizenship Team Date: 02/07/2012
Skype’s Disaster Response Platform
At the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, we’re hosting the Microsoft Vision Center a...
Author: Microsoft Citizenship Team Date: 01/25/2012
The nonprofit productivity battle: have you tried OneNote?
One of the primary reasons we have a software donations program is to give nonprofit organizations...
Author: Microsoft Citizenship Team Date: 01/12/2012
TEDx: Harnessing disruptive change for good
Recently at TedXRainier at the University of Washington campus in Seattle, Akhtar Badshah gave a...
Author: Microsoft Citizenship Team Date: 01/09/2012
Social Innovation in China
By Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director, Citizenship and Public Affairs, Microsoft On my recent trip to...
Author: Microsoft Citizenship Team Date: 12/22/2011
Making Santa accessible in Seattle this weekend
There is a special holiday event taking place in Seattle this Sunday, December 18th from 11am to...
Author: Microsoft Citizenship Team Date: 12/15/2011
Claremont Senior Computer Club Makes Savvy Seniors the Norm
As a young electrical engineer in the 1960s, Tom Deno worked with some of the earliest computers. By...
Author: Microsoft Citizenship Team Date: 12/12/2011
Microsoft at COP17: Working together to organize environmental data
Originally posted on the Software Enabled Earth blog By Robert Bernard, Chief Environmental...
Author: Microsoft Citizenship Team Date: 12/01/2011
STEM Hero: Looking up at the stars and advancing curriculum with Curtis Wong
When your children look up at the sky, do they ever ask you what is going on millions of miles above...
Author: Nathan J Peterson Date: 11/30/2011
Movember: Welcome to Moustache Season
My grandfather was a fire department chief, and I can still remember him in his uniform – white hat,...
Author: Microsoft Citizenship Team Date: 11/18/2011
How social entrepreneurs are tackling the toughest issues (VIDEO)
On this blog we often talk about the next generation of Social Entrepreneurs and the ways in which...
Author: Nathan J Peterson Date: 11/16/2011
Accessibility at the Partners in Learning Global Forum
LaDeana Huyler, Microsoft Accessibility This week, at the Partners in Learning Global Forum in...
Author: Microsoft Citizenship Team Date: 11/10/2011
Extending our commitment to help U.S. Veterans find employment
Returning U.S. veterans face major challenges finding civilian employment. The U.S. Bureau of Labor...
Author: Microsoft Citizenship Team Date: 11/09/2011
Global Washington 2011 conference gets underway
This year’s Global Washington conference, which celebrates Washington State’s global development...
Author: Microsoft Citizenship Team Date: 10/31/2011
Use your job to change the world
By Dan Bross, Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship, Microsoft Corporation Here’s a...
Author: Microsoft Citizenship Team Date: 10/28/2011
Giving through football, karaoke and a 24 hour marathon
We’re into the last week of the Microsoft 2011 employee giving campaign. It has been a very...
Author: Microsoft Citizenship Team Date: 10/25/2011
Computerworld names Microsoft one of top green IT organizations
Cross posted from the Software Enabled Earth blog Today IDG’s Computerworld named Microsoft as one...
Author: Microsoft Citizenship Team Date: 10/24/2011