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Blog Post: Technology keeps precious dollars focused on affordable home-building

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Two days before Nancy Andrew’s official promotion from Deputy Director to Executive Director of Habitat Choptank, a Habitat for Humanity affiliate in Maryland, the organization’s computer server crashed. “Despite the backups and redundancies built into our system, we faced the possibility...

on29 Feb 2012
Blog Post: How does a nonprofit use technology to support global operations?

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Since 1968, Concern Worldwide has been working with the poorest people in the poorest countries of the world to enable them to transform their lives. Today, Concern is one of the world’s largest humanitarian NGOs, with almost 4,000 staff working in nearly 30 countries in Africa, Asia and Central...

on23 Feb 2012
Blog Post: How technology can help local languages

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Today there are nearly 7,000 languages spoken around the world and scientists estimate that three languages become extinct every month and over half of all languages are in danger of becoming extinct before the end of this century. Just think of the knowledge and history that’s lost when a language...

on21 Feb 2012
Blog Post: Meet the Imagine Cup students turned social entrepreneurs

Microsoft Citizenship Team

This week Dominik Tomičević from Croatia, Jason Mitsuyuki Wakizaka from the United States, Francisco Perez from Ecuador, and Mohammad Lu’ay Alazzam from Jordan were playing with the very latest Microsoft technology – in this case our new Microsoft Surface - in Davos, the Swiss village that...

on27 Jan 2012
Blog Post: Microsoft Vision Center in Davos

Microsoft Citizenship Team

This week the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012 is taking place in Davos, Switzerland. The event attracts government, business, academic and nonprofit leaders from around the world who come together to learn, share ideas and engage in debates on the pressing economic and social issues facing countries...

on25 Jan 2012
Blog Post: TEDx: Harnessing disruptive change for good

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Recently at TedXRainier at the University of Washington campus in Seattle, Akhtar Badshah gave a talk on how technology and the disruption that often comes from new technology can be channeled for good. You can watch Akhtar's talk below.

on9 Jan 2012
Blog Post: How technology is helping a teacher connect with visually impaired students

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Originally posted on Microsoft News Center The scene in Robin Lowell’s high school algebra class mirrors classrooms across the country. The teacher is at the front of the room, patiently explaining tricky math concepts. Students frequently raise their hands and ask questions when they’re stuck. Two differences...

on9 Dec 2011
Blog Post: Sunday Reading: STEMtember wraps up, on with learning!

Microsoft Citizenship Team

As October begins, #STEMtember , our month long focus on promoting the importance of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education has wrapped up. We had a busy month of STEM education announcements and events across Microsoft and hopefully we managed to encourage some students, parents...

on2 Oct 2011
Blog Post: Heroes of #STEMtember: Atari, Math, and Trek dreams turning to reality with Kudo Tsunoda

Tara Grumm

Tara Grumm, online marketing manager, Microsoft Citizenship As part of our ongoing series this month on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) careers, we had the pleasure of sitting down with the Creative Director of Kinect for Xbox , Kudo Tsunoda (pictured left)....

on27 Sep 2011
Blog Post: Heroes of #STEMtember: Sunny science with Meteorologist Shannon O’Donnell

Yvonne_Thomas

Editor’s note: This month we have been taking a look at science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education for K-12 students. To kick things off we released the findings of a study on what parents and students think of STEM education . We also thought it would be interesting to look at...

on21 Sep 2011
Blog Post: What do parents and students think of STEM education?

Microsoft Citizenship Team

STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education is vital to solving the world’s toughest social problems; to helping companies create the next breakthrough innovation and to keeping local economies competitive. So how do we encourage more students to study STEM projects? To find out...

on7 Sep 2011
Blog Post: What is STEM and why is it important? #STEMtember

Microsoft Citizenship Team

STEM is an acronym for science, technology, engineering and math. STEM education is not only critical for preparing our future doctors, researchers, rocket scientists and game designers, it’s becoming more important for every type of job in the workforce. The problem is that most countries in the...

on7 Sep 2011
Blog Post: The youth are leading change in Brazil

Akhtar Badshah

Last week I arrived in Sao Paulo for the first time in three years to find an amazing sense of optimism. President Lula’s government managed to lift a quarter of the country’s poor people out of poverty and the current government is expanding that program to reach the most vulnerable. The...

on7 Jul 2011
Blog Post: Bringing local impact to life

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Jean-Philippe Courtois, President, Microsoft International Storytelling is a time-honored tradition in communities and cultures around the globe. However in today’s world, getting the best stories to break through the “noise” can sometimes be a challenge, considering all the digital...

on22 Jun 2011
Blog Post: Kodu Cup Winners Announced

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Today we are announcing the winners of the first U.S. Kodu Cup. It’s a competition that challenged kids across the United States (from the age of 9 to 17) to use Kodu – a free game development tool from Microsoft – to create their own video game for the chance to win great prizes and...

on13 Jun 2011
Blog Post: At PATH, Delivering Information Technology in Challenging Locations

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By Erik Arnold , Chief Information Office, PATH I’ve just returned from PATH’s offices in Hanoi and Phnom Penh, where a group from our information services team reviewed the state of our global health nonprofit’s technical infrastructure there. We also talked with our Vietnam...

on3 May 2011
Blog Post: Transformed by technology: Right To Play receives $750,000 software grant from Microsoft

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Cross posted from the Microsoft Canada Blog Using the transformative power of sport and play, Canadian-founded international development organization Right To Play is improving the lives of children in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the world. Today, RTP is running about 50 projects across Africa...

on11 Mar 2011
Blog Post: Washington STEM launches to prepare students for tomorrow’s jobs

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Posted by Brad Smith Microsoft General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Legal and Corporate Affairs Cross post from Microsoft on the Issues Blog This morning marked an important milestone in our work to improve the quality of education in Washington State. A number of us came together for the official...

on7 Mar 2011
Blog Post: In conversation with Diana Scearce, The Monitor Institute

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Guest post By Elliot Harmon , staff writer for TechSoup Elliot Harmon is a staff writer at TechSoup Global. He once traveled the US for three months on a greyhound bus. He tweets from @elliotharmon. Since the TechSoup Global Contributors’ Summit was conceived as a chance for various networks that promote...

on17 Feb 2011
Blog Post: Top five Microsoft Citizenship posts of 2010

Microsoft Citizenship Team

As the year comes to an end it’s a great opportunity to both look forward to the coming year and review what’s happened over the past twelve months. We thought it would be interesting to highlight the top stories on the blog for 2010 as voted by our readers through their visits. It...

on31 Dec 2010
Blog Post: Does technology help you make an impact in your community?

Tom_Murphy

Enter the Tech for Good Contest for Nonprofits and Libraries in WA State After more than ten years of working in and around the nonprofit sector in Washington State, there is no doubt in my mind that technology is helping organizations to increase their impact in our communities. There is also no...

on20 Dec 2010
Blog Post: NGO Spotlight: La Comunidad Hispana, Kennett Square, PA

Microsoft Citizenship Team

When tough economic times hit, it’s often those on the lowest rungs of the income ladder who suffer the most. They’re the ones whose jobs are eliminated first; who suffer the most from cutbacks. And all too often, they’re La Comunidad Hispana’s clients. Last year, La Comunidad...

on9 Dec 2010
Blog Post: Remote Access Proves Critical to New Zealand NGO after Earthquake

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By Erica Lorraine Scheidt, Director of Marketing Communications at TechSoup Global Through my work with TechSoup Global, all kinds of amazing stories cross my desk, but a letter we received from the Cystic Fibrosis Association of New Zealand after their recent earthquake piqued my interest. A year...

on3 Dec 2010
Blog Post: Microsoft helps launch the Campaign for the Common Good

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By Tracy Nilles, Vice President, Global Corporate Leadership at United Way Worldwide October 25 marked the launch of the United Way Campaign for the Common Good —a national effort to mobilize millions of people and organizations across the country to take action and improve the education, income...

on2 Nov 2010
Blog Post: Dispatch from Cape Town: Exceptional teachers step on the global stage

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Greetings from South Africa! This week I have the privilege of being in Cape Town, South Africa among more than 500 educators, school leaders and government officials who have gathered from around the world to attend the Sixth Annual Partners in Learning (PIL) Worldwide Innovative Education Forum...

on26 Oct 2010