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Blog Post: Top 12 Posts of 2012

Microsoft Citizenship Team

2012 was a busy year. One of the highlights for us was the launch of Microsoft YouthSpark, a new company-wide initiative to create opportunities for 300 million young people over the next three years in education, employment and entrepreneurship. 2012 was also our 30 th employee giving campaign and this...

on22 Dec 2012
Blog Post: How Microsoft Employees are helping the Community

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Jon Fine – CEO United Way of King County Bill Gates once said “It takes more than great products to make a great company.” It’s clear to pretty much everybody by now that Microsoft has that ” more” that Bill was talking about. Having been a partner with Microsoft for 30 years, United Way of King County...

on9 Feb 2012
Blog Post: Did you hear about our 35,500 employee philanthropists?

Microsoft Citizenship Team

We share one the best part-time jobs in the world. As co-chairs of the annual Microsoft Giving Campaign, we get the opportunity to see firsthand how our colleagues bring passion, creativity and generosity to raise much needed funds for community organizations around the globe. In 2010, we raised an outstanding...

on8 Feb 2012
Blog Post: Giving through football, karaoke and a 24 hour marathon

Microsoft Citizenship Team

We’re into the last week of the Microsoft 2011 employee giving campaign. It has been a very busy month so far , and this week is turning into pure madness, in a good way. Earlier today Pete Carroll, the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks came to our Redmond campus to talk about A Better Seattle...

on25 Oct 2011
Blog Post: The 24 Hour Global Give and Go: The giving is done; the going starts tonight

Microsoft Citizenship Team

What if you had 24 hours to make a difference in the lives of people across the world’s 24 time zones? A group of Microsoft employees and pioneering philanthropists asked themselves this question as part of month of Giving at Microsoft. The answer came in the form of an event called “The...

on23 Oct 2011
Blog Post: Picture Blog: Microsoft employees rally around the 5K to help local causes

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Yesterday employees and their families turned out for what’s always the most colorful - well perhaps with the exception of the Flamingos - event of the Microsoft employee giving month. This year participation was up on last year as spouses and domestic partners were allowed to join the fun....

on15 Oct 2011
Blog Post: Can charitable donations be kitsch?

Microsoft Citizenship Team

October is a month of giving back at Microsoft when employees around the United States host or participate in events to raise money for nonprofits. There are hundreds of events taking place across the company throughout the month, but we’ve found a new favorite. The Plastic Pink Flamingo Flock...

on12 Oct 2011