Can Funder-Backed Online Tools Help Close the Employment "Skills Gap"?
Foundation: Microsoft Philanthropies
This is a super hot area of philanthropy right now, but it's also challenging terrain. Where are all these unfilled positions? And how can...more

Microsoft announces its single biggest philanthropic investment
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Microsoft Philanthropies yesterday announced its single biggest philanthropic investment. Microsoft is partnering with the Markle Foundation to...more

Technology for the People: What's Microsoft Philanthropies Been Up To?
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While this trait strikes some critics of tech philanthropy as naive or arrogant, or both, we're not as irritated as others. Philanthropy is supposed to be...more

Microsoft, Shakti Foundation join hands to help female entrepreneurs
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Microsoft Philanthropies yesterday announced a financial award from the Microsoft YouthSpark grant to Shakti Foundation for Disadvantaged...more

Social Innovation Summit 2016 to Bring Together Tech, Philanthropy
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Technology and social action will converge at the Social Innovation Summit in Washington, D.C., next month, and BizTech will provide full...more

Who Wants to Teach the World to Code—And Why?
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Statistics released by Microsoft reveal that less than 25 percent of U.S. high schools offer computer science classes and only 2.5 percent of college graduates have degrees in computer science; of...more

Microsoft YouthSpark grant for Mentec Foundation SA
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Microsoft Philanthropies has announced grants for over 100 nonprofit organisations in 55 countries, including Mentec Foundation in South...more

Microsoft Collaborates with 100 Nonprofit Partners to Expand Computer Science Education
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But NPQ has also been raising concerns about how tech billionaires and their companies are starting to control a lot of million-dollar...more

Microsoft announces grants for Nasscom Foundation, Quest Alliance
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Microsoft Philanthropies announced grants for over 100 nonprofit organisations in 55 countries, including Nasscom Foundation and Quest Alliance...more

Microsoft donates $625000 to give Kiwi youth a head start
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NZ's High Tech Youth and OMGTech! groups have received Microsoft grants of a combined value of $625,000 in cash and software, that will help...more