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Blog Post: Microsoft Employees Team Up with Doctors to Bring Medical Care and Technology to the Ecuadorian Jungle

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Last month, a group of ten Microsoft employees, seven doctors, five nurses, three pharmacists, and 14 other volunteers traveled to Tena, Ecuador for a week to provide medical care to hundreds of patients in the Amazon Basin. The yearly trip happens through a partnership between Microsoft and Timmy Global...

on3 Dec 2012
Blog Post: Day of Caring – A tradition of service, a celebration of giving

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Participating in United Way of King County’s Day of Caring has been a long-standing tradition at Microsoft. Since 1992, Microsoft employees in the greater-Seattle area provide a day of service for nonprofits in need of extra hands and in the process we get to know our neighborhood organizations a little...

on24 Sep 2012
Blog Post: How can you help when a natural disaster strikes?

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By the Microsoft Disaster Response Team Following the devastation of a natural disaster, one of the first questions people ask is how can I help? The challenge is most response organizations require pre-training for disaster relief volunteers so many are unable to provide volunteer assistance during...

on27 Jun 2012
Blog Post: The Freedom of a Volunteer

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Charles Thrasher, Operations Project Manager and Co-Chair Microsoft Net Impact Chapter I spent four hours talking to MBA students at the annual Net Impact conference this past weekend. I talked continuously about Microsoft as a matrixed organization and the potential for an individual to influence change...

on31 Oct 2011
Blog Post: Volunteers create a circle of giving back in Kenya

Microsoft Citizenship Team

One of the things we regularly see through employee giving at Microsoft is the passion people have for making a positive difference. Several employees are utilizing their volunteer hours here to support the Global Give Back Circle (GGBC), a nonprofit organization that helps underprivileged girls in Kenya...

on28 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: Imagine students helping schools and nonprofits

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By Andrea L. Taylor, director of North America community affairs at Microsoft A unique Community Service Day was held in New York’s Central Park today when nearly 125 Microsoft Imagine Cup finalists from around the world gathered to build and paint bookshelves, signage and planters to benefit local...

on11 Jul 2011
Blog Post: KEXP.org: Where the Music and Technology Matter (Part 2)

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Editor's Note: Our thoughts are with those impacted by the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan. While it may be some time until the full impact has been assessed, we will continue to work with our nonprofit partners to determine where our support can be of the greatest benefit. More on our efforts...

on14 Mar 2011
Blog Post: Transformed by technology: Right To Play receives $750,000 software grant from Microsoft

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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: MVPs strike again as Geek Give Rocks the Pacific Northwest

Microsoft Citizenship Team

This week the Microsoft Campus in Redmond will be visited by a group of extraordinary givers, doers, and all around community leaders. The Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are an exceptional group of professionals who come from a wide range of backgrounds and actively share their high-quality...

on1 Mar 2011
Blog Post: Employee volunteering program protects children online in Belgium

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Laurence Verriest, Community Affairs Lead, Microsoft Belgium. Child Focus is a Belgian NGO that has been working tirelessly to protect children online for many years. Microsoft has collaborated with Child Focus for the last four years and has been training children and teachers in schools around Belgium...

on18 Jan 2011