{"id":7099,"date":"2012-12-05T15:36:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T14:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=7099"},"modified":"2012-12-10T15:41:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T14:41:45","slug":"google-microsoft-launch-charity-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2012\/12\/05\/google-microsoft-launch-charity-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, Microsoft launch charity efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/thewest\/opinion\/post\/-\/blog\/15554751\/google-microsoft-launch-charity-efforts\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7100\" title=\"Google, Microsoft launch charity efforts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/121210_google.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Google and Microsoft each unveiled new charitable initiatives  Tuesday, in separate efforts which channel millions of dollars to  innovators tackling social ills. Google launched its Global Impact  Awards program with a first round of funding allocating a total of $23  million to seven organizations &#8220;changing the world.&#8221; &#8220;Technology  has dramatically improved our lives, from the speed at which we get  things done to how we connect with others,&#8221; Google director of giving  Jacquelline Fuller said in a blog post announcing the awards. &#8220;Yet innovations in medicine, business and communications have far outpaced tech-enabled advances in the nonprofit sector.&#8221; Meanwhile,  Microsoft held a Social Innovation Summit at which it announced the  winners of $3 million in &#8220;Imagine Cup&#8221; grants to students with promising  projects for the global good. &#8220;The Imagine Cup Grants will help  students evolve a great idea for addressing a societal issue into a  real-world business,&#8221; said Dan&#8217;l Lewin, corporate vice president of  Strategic and Emerging Business Development at Microsoft. &#8220;These students have developed incredible approaches that show great potential for positive local impact.&#8221; A  $100,000 grand prize Imagine Cup grant went to a team from Germany that  devised a way to reduce traffic congestion and carbon emissions by  letting each driver know the best route to their destination. <a href=\"http:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/thewest\/opinion\/post\/-\/blog\/15554751\/google-microsoft-launch-charity-efforts\/\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global |  Company: Google, Microsoft\u00c2\u00a0 | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/thewest\/opinion\/post\/-\/blog\/15554751\/google-microsoft-launch-charity-efforts\/\" target=\"_blank\">AFP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google and Microsoft each unveiled new charitable initiatives Tuesday, in separate efforts which channel millions of dollars to innovators tackling social ills. Google launched its Global Impact Awards program with a first round of funding allocating a total of $23 million to seven organizations &#8220;changing the world.&#8221; &#8220;Technology has dramatically improved our lives, from the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[178,22],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-7099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-google","tag-microsoft","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7099"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=7099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}