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Improving Literacy Starts With a Story: First Book and the Tata Group of Companies Join To Celebrate and Inspire Reading

3BL Media

Tata Sons North America and First Book, the largest online network of educators serving children in need, have been working together since 2008 to eliminate existing barriers to education. Over the last 15 years of this partnership, they have distributed about 600,000 books to educators serving kids in need.

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Cisco Networking Academy celebrates 25 years of impact

Cisco CSR

He learned IT skills through books and perusing the Internet where he came upon networking technology. million global learners have taken Cisco Networking Academy courses to gain digital skills. Now, Cisco aims to provide digital skills training to 25 million more people over the next 10 years to position them for in-demand jobs.

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How COPE leverages esports to inspire youth success

Cisco CSR

The media told me to limit that time, but I was an exhausted working mom, and that digital babysitter was a welcome respite. I felt the requisite parental guilt, but I also saw them having fun, connecting socially, and dare I say it, learning. Kids feel misunderstood, and the digital divide between parents and gamers widens.

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Give Your Employees a Better CSR Experience With the Right Technology

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: An innovative corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy can substantially improve employee participation and workplace pride. By rewarding your employees with VTO hours, they’ll be able to enable more social good within their local communities. SOURCE: CyberGrants. View original content here.

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The fight for a better tomorrow: Canada's top 30 under 30 sustainability leaders of 2022

Corporate Knights

designs user-friendly, open-source digital tools, including a phone app called Lukim Gather, that allow communities to monitor and report social or environmental issues (such as deforestation or pollution) to policy-makers. Theresa Dearden helps communities in the country transcend cultural barriers to improve sustainable development.

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Dignity First Climate Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

Regarding the second, “paradigm change,” Meadows was borrowing a concept from Thomas Kuhn’s well-noted 1962 book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” which held that once a “paradigm” or fundamental framework is changed (e.g., But it is also, through digitalization and the internet, increasingly connecting us as never before.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

All We Can Save , the book they birthed in September, features 41 powerful voices. Rose Stuckey Kirk, Senior Vice President, Chief Corporate Social Responsibility Officer, Verizon. She was executive producer of the 2017 documentary "Without a Net: The Digital Divide in America." . LinkedIn | Twitter.