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Blog Post: 2013 United Way Spirit of America and Summit Awards

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Congratulations to science and technology company 3M for winning the 2013 United Way Spirit of America ® award for philanthropy, volunteer engagement and community impact! Microsoft also received two Summit awards from United Way for our community impact and volunteer engagement. The awards program...

on18 Apr 2013
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: One Day of Caring – 5,000 Volunteers

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By Gretchen Deo, Program Manager, Citizenship & Public Affairs Microsoft has a tradition of volunteering on a large scale for United Way of King County’s Annual Day of Caring and this year was no different with over 5,000 Microsoft employees and over 200 Microsoft alumni participating in 213 projects...

on20 Sep 2011
Blog Post: Working with corporate alumni for greater community impact

Akhtar Badshah

Like many companies, Microsoft is proud of the close and productive relationship we have with our alumni and the opportunities we have to work together. This is particularly true when it comes to our local community here in Washington State where we have a large number of employees and a large alumni...

on25 Aug 2011
Blog Post: U.S. Bank wins United Way’s 2011 Spirit of America Award

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Earlier today United Way presented U.S. Bank with the 2011 Spirit of America award recognizing the company and its employees’ commitment to improving the financial stability of individuals, families and local communities. Microsoft, along with Bank of America, Procter & Gamble and Dominion Resources...

on6 May 2011
Blog Post: A Mouse, 500 Employees, and the Commitment to Build a Strong Community

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Jon Fine, CEO, United Way of King County In 1983, Microsoft introduced the first version of Microsoft Word, a product that would go on to revolutionize word processing and software interface. The same year, came the Microsoft Mouse, a device we all take for granted now, that changed the...

on17 Jan 2011
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: The Mary M. Gates Learning Center at United Way

Tom_Murphy

Yesterday in Alexandria Virginia, United Way Worldwide officially opened the Mary M. Gates Learning Center overlooking the Potomac River. The center, which was made possible by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , includes technology provided by Microsoft and gifts from Deloitte ,...

on14 Oct 2010
Blog Post: Everyone can make a difference in their local community

Microsoft Citizenship Team

One of the biggest days of the year for employee community engagement at Microsoft is United Way of King County’s Day of Caring. Last Friday, September 24, over 10,000 friends, neighbors, colleagues and citizens volunteered in their communities around King County to assist non-profits and individual’s...

on1 Oct 2010