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Trust and the Mysterious Corporation
By Dan Bross, Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship at Microsoft Most image and reputation experts agree that trust is a positive driver of image and reputation, and trust is earned. If trust is in...
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EPA names the Top 50 green power purchasers in the U.S.
Earlier today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released an updated list of the Top 50 purchasers on green power in the United States including clean, renewable electricity from solar,...
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Microsoft commits to being carbon neutral
Microsoft has today announced that we plan to be carbon neutral across all our direct operations beginning on July 1st 2012 – the beginning of our next financial year. Rob Bernard, Chief Environmental...
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Cross Post: Exploring the Role of Corporate Political Donations
Editor’s note: Today, Dan Bross, Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship at Microsoft has published an interesting look at the role of corporate political donations, particularly in the United States...
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National Hurricane Preparedness Week: Are you ready?
The U.S. National Hurricane Center has named May 27th –June 1st National Hurricane Preparedness Week . Eastern Pacific hurricane season kicked off on May 15th and Atlantic hurricane season starts June...
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Making our partners’ causes our causes
Today at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, we’re announcing the “What’s Your Cause Challenge ” which will help support the fantastic work our partners have underway with nonprofits...
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The value of transparency
Dan Bross, Senior Director of Citizenship, Microsoft. Whether I’m engaging colleagues inside Microsoft or speaking externally I’m a consistent advocate for the value of transparency. That’s why I’m...
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Join us for the launch of our new Citizenship initiative
Lori Harnick, General Manager, Citizenship & Public Affairs, Microsoft I would like to invite you to join us this Thursday as we announce a new Citizenship focus as part of a company-wide...
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The Microsoft Employee Giving Campaign is up and running… literally
By Lori Harnick, General Manager, Microsoft Citizenship & Public Affairs You may have heard that October is a busy month at Microsoft this year - but it’s not just about major product launches....
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2012 Microsoft Citizenship Report now available
Today we’re releasing our 2012 Citizenship Report which provides an overview of our Citizenship work over the past fiscal year (July 2011 to June 2012). As Lori Harnick observes in a post over on the...
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The Power of Partnership: Working Together to Solve the Youth Underemployment...
Lori Harnick, General Manager, Citizenship & Public Affairs, Microsoft We have been talking quite a bit lately about the need to close the opportunity divide for youth – the gap between those who...
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How Customer Service and Support is helping ‘on the ground’ in Malawi
October is employee giving month at Microsoft. It’s a time when employees across the United States come together to raise money and donate their time and expertise to nonprofits and local communities....
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Video: A special event for employee giving at Microsoft
Yesterday we held a very special employee event here in Redmond, Washington. Moderated by Brad Smith, the event included our CEO Steve Ballmer, our Founder Bill Gates, Washington State Governor Chris...
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Bidding for a good cause (no bull)
As we near the end of the 2012 Microsoft employee giving campaign we thought we’d give you a glimpse at one of the most popular giving initiatives: MS Auction . MS Auction is an internal only auction...
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Do you know what cats have to do with employee giving at Microsoft?
Editor’s Note: As we come to the end of the 2012 Microsoft employee giving campaign we took some time up to talk to Susan Bunch and Karen Easterbrook the founders of one of the more unique and...
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Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for War Child
Nancy Rademaker, Microsoft Netherlands At the end of 2011, four Microsoft Netherlands employees came up with the idea of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and soon the enthusiasm spread around the office as...
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Helping our veterans starts in our local communities
Michael Allen, Chief of Staff, US Public Sector, Microsoft Do you know a veteran? There’s a good chance you do but may not realize it. I bet some of those impacted by Hurricane Sandy met some when...
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Microsoft Employees Team Up with Doctors to Bring Medical Care and Technology...
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...
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Fast Forward Sixty-four Years
Dan Bross, Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship and Public Affairs, Microsoft Sixty-four years ago last week, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was awaiting consideration and adoption by...
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Reputation and Corporate Citizenship
The Reputation Institute has released the results of a study that interviewed 47,000 consumers across 15 countries to discover the impact of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on their perceptions...
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