May 2013

• Computer Science Moves Past ‘Elective’ Status in Washington State — Education Week
• The List: Top 5 corporate philanthropists—large companies — Puget Sound Business Journal
• Molding the next generation of computer scientists — CNN
• Video: Have an Idea to Spark Social Change in Your Community? Enter the YouthSpark Challenge for Change — Good Magazine
• Microsoft launches YouthSpark Challenge for Change contest — Neowin
• Microsoft’s Akhtar Badshah Reflects on STEM ed. in the U.S. — Education Week

April 2013

• Microsoft holds event to encourage students in computer science field — Redmond Reporter
• Microsoft employees give tech lessons in area schools — Q13
• Microsoft wins top national awards for volunteering and community impact — Redmond Reporter
• YouthSpark-Brookings study: Houston has an education pipeline problem — Houston Business Journal

March 2013

• Microsoft's TEALS program: Facilitating computer science education, coding at a younger age — Network World
• We Day inspired thousands of Seattle kids. Now what? — Crosscut
• Stars shine at We Day, inspire students to change the world — Seattle Times

February 2013

• Microsoft employees gave $105 million to charity in 2012 — Neowin
• Microsoft employees raised $105M for 19K non-profits in 2012 — GeekWire
• Africa Gets Cutting-Edge Solar Broadband, Phones From Microsoft — ReadWrite

January 2013

• Want Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Grant? Combine Devices, Sensors And the Cloud — ReadWrite
• Stay Connected After Disasters With Microsoft's HelpBridge App — PC Mag
• Microsoft’s disaster response app HelpBridge alerts family and friends during crisis — GeekWire
• Corporate Giving Programs Still Going Strong — Triple Pundit

December 2012

• Microsoft gives $75,000 to team building cloud-based stethoscope — CNET
• These Five-Student Teams Could Change The World, With A Little Help From Microsoft — Fast Company
• Microsoft hands out $325,000 to student entrepreneurs — Neowin
• The Companies With the Best CSR Reputations — Forbes

November 2012

• Microsoft supports #Giving Tuesday charity event today — Neowin

October 2012

• A look at Microsoft's evolving corporate citizenship strategy — Puget Sound Business Journal

September 2012

• Microsoft to invest $500 million to close youth ‘opportunity gap’ — The Seattle Times
• Microsoft announces YouthSpark, a program to help 300 million kids get a better education and start a business — The Next Web
• Microsoft Launches YouthSpark to Empower 300 Million Kids Through Technology — Read Write Web
• Bridging the Opportunity Divide – Empowering Youth to Imagine and Realize their Futures — Beth's Blog
• Fostering Tech Talent in Schools — The New York Times

August 2012

• Are kids all that techno-smart? Maybe not — eSchoolNews
• Filling African’s Technology Skills Gap — BBC
• Kenya Faces Tech Skills Gap — Wall Street Journal
• Microsoft Alumni Foundation Announces 2012 Integral Fellows Awards Finalists — Just Means

July 2012

• Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Student Competition Turns 10, Gets Underway in Sydney — Techcrunch
• Kids Build Robots, Hone Math and Science Skills at Technology Camp — Florida Times Union
• At Imagine Cup Finals, Next Generation of Entrepreneurs Shine — IDG
• Ukraine win a sign of the times — The Australian
• Ditch that memo, it's time to race tricycles! Office Olympics catch on — KUOW/NPR
• Geek of the Week: Kevin Wang is putting computer scientists into high schools — GeekWire

June 2012

• Microsoft Local Impact Map Enable Nonprofits To Tell A Visual Story — Techli

May 2012

• Microsoft wins United Way Summit award for community impact — Seattle Times
• 3 Bold Methods for Turning Capacity into Impact — Realized Worth
• Students put tech to good use in Microsoft’s Imagine Cup contest — Seattle Times
• UCD team in finals of Microsoft competition — Sacramento Bee
• The Spring of Hope: Restoring the Dignity — Huffington Post
• Bridging the opportunity divide with technology — The Hindu
• 270 million Indians are illiterate: Report — The Economic Times
• Michelle Obama Military Focus Helps as Women Swell Ranks — Bloomberg BusinessWeek

April 2012

• 100 Best Corporate Citizens Revealed — Environmental Leader
• The 100 Best Corporate Citizens — Forbes
• Acting on Opportunity — RE: Philanthropy
• The State Of Corporate Responsibility: Ambivalent, Leaderless, And A Little Apathetic — Fast Company Co.Exist
• Microsoft Alumni Foundation accepting nominations 2012 Integral Fellows Awards — Redmond Reporter
• Microsoft helps families cope with rising tuition — Redmond Reporter

March 2012

• How Corporations Are Helping To Solve The Education Crisis — Fast Company Co.Exist
• A Call to Action: Challenges Facing Global Youth — Edutopia
• New scholarship aims to fan interest in high-tech careers — Seattle Times
• Applications sought for $3 million in 2012 scholarships — Tacoma News Tribune
• Microsoft Reveals A Major Opportunity Divide Around the World — Daily Disruption
• Arne Duncan - We Have to Get Better Faster Than We Ever Have — The Atlantic
• Morning Line — PBS
• From Popgun to Metrics: CSR According to Microsoft, Hershey’s and Ernst & Youth — CSR Wire
• Conference 2012: Microsoft’s Brad Smith—Learn from the Past to Define the Future — Boston College for Corporate Citizenship
• How a high-five changed this Microsoft GM’s life, and helped a bunch of kids — Geekwire
• TEALS is Solving the Computer Science Problem in Schools — InTheCapital.com
• Hiring veterans: Which tech companies are leading, and how we could all do better — The Next Web
• Your Best Tech Bet: Hire a Vet — TechZone360
• Hannah goes to Washington — Leominster Champion

February 2012

• Cultivating a corporate culture of giving — Los Altos Crier
• How Pink Flamingos Helped Raise $100 million for Nonprofits — Huffington Post
• KING 5 Morning News — KING 5 TV
• Microsoft employees raise record $100.5 million for nonprofits — Seattle Times
• Microsoft employees raised $100.5m for charity in 2011, totaling $946m since 1983 — The Next Web
• Microsoft’s Employee Giving Program Raises $100 Million for Nonprofits in 2011 — Ditii.com
• Microsoft Employees Raised Record $100 M for Charity in 2011 — Gov Con Executive
• Microsoft US employees raised $100 million for charity in 2011 — Neowin.net
• Microsoft Reports 2011 Was Top Year For Employee Giving — Redmond Patch
• This Valentine’s Day, Think Like Microsoft — Realized Worth
• Microsoft and its employees donate record-breaking $100 million — Sage Nonprofits
• 11-year-old game designer meets the president — MSNBC
• Fifth-Grade Game Designer Exhibits her Video Game at White House — Kotaku
• Microsoft Student Developers Showcase Their Work at the White House Science Fair — Wired
• Springbrook student meets the President — The Sentinel
• Importance of “STEM” in Encouraging Next Generation of Tech Leaders — The Washington Informer

January 2012

• Searching for the next Bill Gates: Young Entrepreneurs Meet Microsoft’s Founder — Daily Disruption
• Microsoft Imagine Cup Grants Awarded To Four Teams from Around the Globe — Network World
• Microsoft gives out $300K to kick start world changing ideas — Neowin.net
• Lifelens malaria app wins Microsoft 'Imagine Cup' grant — CNET Newsr
• Student tech entrepreneurs win Imagine Cup grants from Microsoft — The Seattle Times

December 2011

• Offering IT Training for veterans — Loudon Business
• Microsoft Assists Malaysian Young Generation Towards Higher Education — Bernama.com
• Microsoft Alumni Foundation announces Integral Fellows Award winners — Seattle Times
• Microsoft Imagine Cup Grants Finalists Include 5 Windows Phone App Projects — WMPower User

November 2011

• Microsoft employees bring real-world experience into the classroom with TEALS program — Redmond Reporter
• Hire a vet? IT says yes — Computer World
• Microsofties show off their best snaps in “inspire” photobook for charity — iStartedSomething
• Employee Volunteering - An Amazing Resource or a Terrible Waste? — Realized Worth
• Economy, lack of engineers could hinder U.S. innovation — USA Today
• Microsoft Unveils ‘Wall of Honor’ for Veterans — Softpedia
• CEO Steve Ballmer unveils Microsoft’s salute to military vets — TechFlash
• Leaving the military? Job prospects are better than you think — Fortune

October 2011

• Microsoft’s Smith meets with Sen. Murray to talk about jobless vets — TechFlash
• Office 365: Non-Profit Moves to Cloud for Global Relief — CIO Magazine
• Global Development as a Vital Export: Changing Lives, Creating Opportunity — Huffington Post
• Tech giant Microsoft gives away $16.7M to Silicon Valley nonprofits — Silicon Valley Business Journal
• The Annual Giving Campaign: 6 Tips for Success — Realized Worth
• More Corporations Shed Light On Political Spending — NPR
• Microsoft’s Top Lawyer Recruits Celebrities and Colleagues to Start Charity — Chronicle of Philanthropy
• Seahawks coach Pete Carroll visits Redmond, inspires Microsoft employees during giving campaign — Redmond Reporter

September 2011

• Technology sector remains upbeat about job growth — NPR
• Communication critical to relief in Haiti — Microsoft on the Issues
• A view from Microsoft's disaster central — CNET
• What a Microsoft rescue worker saw in Haiti — CNET

August 2011

• Microsoft gives $15M to schools for games and cloud — Seattle Times
• Students Create Games that Focus on Global Issues — NPR (KQED)
• Microsoft gives $48K in cash, equipment to Boys & Girls Clubs 'tech center' — Denver Business Journal
• Microsoft updates its software donation program — WinRumors.com
• Microsoft’s Donation Program Gives 40,000 Nonprofits Tech Access When They Need It — BCLC Blog
• Microsoft Awards United Way, 18 Other Local Nonprofits $15 Million in Software Grants — Woodbury Patch

July 2011

• 10-year old girl wins Microsoft game contest, is a job offer next? — TechFlash
• Boeing and Microsoft Donate $50-Million for Unusual Public-Private Scholarships — The Chronicle of Higher Education
• At Microsoft, Collaboration Goes Far Beyond CSR — Triple Pundit
• Microsoft's Local Impact Map — Directions Magazine
• Microsoft, Boeing give $50 million for college scholarships — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Microsoft, Boeing pledge $50 million as tuitions set to shoot up — The Seattle Times

June 2011

• Microsoft employees to restore Issaquah Creek habitat — Issaquah Press
• Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks, Nordstrom and Costco give back — Puget Sound Business Journal
• Microsoft, others using philanthropy as recruiting leverage — Puget Sound Business Journal
• Honoring our heroes this Memorial Day — USA Today
• How to make corporate citizenship sustainable — Puget Sound Business Journal

May 2011

• Microsoft Training Program Sheds Light on Digital Divide’s Severity — Government Technology
• Top 10 Coolest (Mostly Free) Things for Teachers from Microsoft — Cool Cat Teacher Blog
• Path to a Brighter Future — Everett Herald
• Microsoft's Kodu Takes Kids from Game Players to Game Makers — Patch.com

April 2011

• STEM grants help attract more students to sciences — Seattle Times
• Kudos to Kodu — PC Magazine
• Microsoft Kicks Off Kodu Kids' Programming Game, Design Contest — eWeek
• Microsoft employees, nonprofits team up on Japan laptop project — TechFlash
• $10k for budding video game designers — eSchoolNews

March 2011

• Microsoft Corp. Helps Veterans’ Job Search — American Forces Press Service
• Speed Dating for Geeks — Philanthropy NorthWest
• Microsoft Donates $15 Million Through Its Elevate America Community Initiative — Softpedia
• The Knowledge is in the Room: How To Let It Out — Beth's blog
• Microsoft employees give $96 million in 2010 — Seattle Times

February 2011

• Microsoft Employees Give Big — The Nonprofit Quarterly
• Microsoft Continues Investment in Women and Young IT Pros with Elevate America — Windows IT Pro
• Employee Giving & Volunteering - What Matters Most — Realized Worth
• Microsoft Employees Raised $96 Million in 2010 For Charity — The Causemopolitan

January 2011

• What Haiti Needs Most, Post Quake — USA Today
• Veterans get boost designing new careers — USA Today
• When the going gets tough the tough get giving — Huffington Post
• Microsoft employees give $96 million in 2010 — Seattle Times
• Microsoft employees give a record $96m — Puget Sound Business Journal
• Microsoft US employees gave $96M to charity in 2010 — Seattle P.I.

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