Organizations in San Mateo County, California were allocated $7.5 million in federal grants to improve elementary literacy levels.
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation is one of seven recipients in the U.S. of the Social Innovation Fund grant. The community foundation, along with The Big Lift, hope the dedicated efforts to evaluating data and best practices will help improve reading and writing in elementary schools and provide a model for other communities in the state and across the U.S.
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Here are the star companies that have succeeded in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. The companies were gathered by Civic 50, a national initiative to survey and rank S&P 500 corporations on how they engage with the communities they serve and utilize best practices in their corporate cultures.