Community Partners

The American Red Cross (ARC) is part of a worldwide movement that offers neutral humanitarian care to the victims of war and natural disaster. For more than a decade, ARC has been a strategic disaster response partner of Cisco. (US/ROW)

CARE seeks to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. CARE is one of Cisco's strategic disaster response partners. (US/ROW)

Community Voice Mail (CVM) empowers people in crisis and transition by distributing free, personalized voicemail access. Cisco has provided support to help increase CVM's reach and capacity. (US/ROW)
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Habitat for Humanity seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world. The Cisco Foundation provides cash donations to match employee volunteer time, and employees can team up to earn a Cisco Foundation grant for a Habitat home. Habitat for Humanity is also one of Cisco's strategic partners under our Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) commitment in Sub-Saharan Africa. (US/ROW)

NetHope is a nonprofit IT consortium of leading international NGOs. NetHope members develop strategic, technology-enabled programs and solutions to serve millions of beneficiaries each year in more than 100 countries. Cisco has provided support to help NetHope build its capacity to serve non-profit organizations. (US/ROW)

Network for Good provides a range of services to help nonprofits raise funds, communicate, and strategize. Cisco has supported the development of Internet-based resources to expand their capabilities. (US)

TechSoup Global (TSG) connects nonprofits and public libraries with donated and discounted technology products. Cisco and TSG have worked together to extend the benefits of information and communication technologies (ICT) to social benefit organizations across the globe. (US/ROW)
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City Year leverages the talent, energy and idealism of corps members who serve as tutors, mentors and role models to help students stay on track - and get back on track - to graduate. Cisco supported the development of City Year's school-based service, "Whole School, Whole Child," devoted to making schools more conducive to student success. (US)
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Digital Opportunity Trust and Cisco collaborated on the 21st Century Schools initiative, which aims to launch a global model for sustainable education reform. Cisco has also supported DOT's Reach Up and Scale Up programs in the US and beyond. (US/ROW)
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DonorsChoose empowers teachers to submit project proposals for materials or experiences to support student learning. These projects are funded by individual donors. Cisco support has helped Donors Choose develop and implement Internet-based programs to facilitate their expansion. (US)

MIND Research Institute develops programs to help underserved students develop critical thinking, reasoning, and mathematical abilities. Cisco has supported a variety of MIND's programs, including the expansion and outreach of MIND's Math and Music Program, anonline professional development program to improve teacher math content knowledge and classroom instruction in K-12 math and Web Delivery project to convert MIND's K-12 math education programming to a fully web-deliverable platform. (US)
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The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) helps people with learning disabilities succeed by developing tools and services for early, effective response. Cisco has supported several of NCLD's programs to help NCLD develop and disseminate resources, tools and professional development opportunities to help bridge the achievement gap between struggling learners and their peers through the use of the Response to Intervention (RTI) models in the nation's public schools. (US)
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The Peres Center for Peace is an independent, non profit, non governmental organization founded in 1996 by Nobel Peace Laureate and former Prime Minister and ninth President of the State of Israel Shimon Peres. Cisco has provided support for several programs including assisting Palestinian doctors to provide a higher standard of treatment to their patients, by linking them with Israeli doctors through a "Telemedicine" program that allows for online consultations in real time; a Mediterranean Youth to engage youth from Mediterranean nations through both technology, education and social responsibility; and a Digital Cities program; and, a Digital Cities project to narrow the socio-economic gap between the Arab-Israeli city of Nazareth and the Jewish-Israeli city of Upper Nazareth. (ROW)

Save the Children aims to create real and lasting change for children in need. Cisco's support has focused on their literacy initiatives for underserved, rural communities. Save the Children is also one of our strategic partners for Cisco's disaster/humanitarian relief response activities. (US/ROW)

The Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF) leverages partnerships and resources for public education, so all students can realize their full potential. Cisco has supported SVEF's efforts to transform education in Silicon Valley via the effective use of technology, including the Lessonopoly program, partnerships and content creation, etc. (US)

The Snunit Center for the Advancement of Web Based Learning is a not-for-profit organization aimed at enhancing education of children of all ages and adults in the Information Technology field. Snunit is a leading innovator of online education that implements multi-media pedagogies. Cisco has provided support to develop a financial skills online learning course for Arab and Jewish elementary school students. They are also developing a training and implementation model of English instruction for technology in Rwanda as part of Cisco's Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) commitment. (ROW)

Teachers Without Borders (TWB) aims to close the global education divide. Cisco has supported several of TWB's initiatives, including it's Certificate of Teaching Mastery (CTM) program, TWB Toolset, and Community Evaluation tool. (US/ROW)
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Grameen Foundation works to help the world's poorest, especially women, improve their lives and escape poverty via access to microfinance and innovative technology. Cisco supported the development of Mifos, an open-source financial software platform that Grameen developed to help strengthen the operations and sustainability of microfinance institutions (MFIs) around the world. (ROW)
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ImagineNations is a global alliance of social entrepreneurs, thought leaders, investors, financial institutions, global brands, media and organizations all working together to empower and inspire a new generation of successful youth investment and employment in the developing world. Cisco is supported the ImagineNetwork portal, which expands opportunities for millions of young adults, especially adolescent girls and young women, to gain access to employment and livelihood through a global technology platform (portal) linking networks, within and across countries. (US/ROW)

Inveneo aims to get ICT tools into the hands of the people who need them most by developing highl affordable and sustainable ICT-solutions for governments, NGOs, and private enterprises that serve the developing world. Cisco has supported Inveneo's scale-up of it's operations in Africa, and is one of our strategic partners under Cisco's Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) commitment in Sub-Saharan Africa. (ROW)
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Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to an entrepreneur in the developing world. Kiva's mission is to connect people, through lending, for the sake of alleviating poverty. Cisco is providing support to Kiva to address demand and supply side constraints to support the ability of microfinance institutions to scale operations to serve more clients. (US/ROW)

One Economy brings broadband to the homes of low-income people and provides capacity building resources through a multilingual web portal called The Beehive. Cisco has supported a number of One Economy programs and services, including the Beehive, Digital Connectors, and others. One Economy is one of our strategic partners under Cisco's Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) commitment in Sub-Saharan Africa. One Economy also aligns with our Economic Empowerment investment area. (US/ROW)
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OneWorld International Foundation has a vision of equitable and sustainable distribution of wealth amongst the world's population, underpinned by global attainment and protection of human rights and by governance structures which permit local communities control over their own affairs. Cisco supported OneWorld's Lifelines program which aims at improving livelihoods and better quality of lives for poor Indian farmers through an ICT-enabled knowledge service. (ROW)
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