2011年11月2日星期三
What other charitable giving does Google do?
Once we have a live pilot or project, we take advantage of Google.coms standard project review and management processes that our company has effectively used for years.What if those pilots fail?Thats normal. moncler white coat We should expect that some of them will fail or will only have smaller impact. If youre not failing some of the time, youre not taking risks. As we progress, some of our failures will hopefully teach us as much as some of our successes. As a company that has been doing well, its important that we push ourselves to be amongst the most generous companies. We have several charitable giving programs supporting, for example, education (especially K-12 science and math programs), university research, communities where we work, and technology moncler coat black solutions for underserved groups. Last year the company gave more than $145 million to non-profits and academic institutions, and more than $184 million when including Google Grants, Google.org technology projects and in-kind product support for non-profits.How is this philanthropic work different from that of other companies?Like other companies, we have charitable giving programs, we provide products in-kind and we have a range of employee volunteering programs. Some companies like ours may also have experiments like Google.org to leverage their strengthsa form of skills-based giving. However, many companies do amazing charitable work through a centralized Corporate Social Responsibility arm that tackles a key issue or two. We approach philanthropy the way we do our core business, with big goals and a launch early and iterateapproach. Ideas come from all over the company and we work to tackle a range of issues moncler newest coat blue we care about, from clean energy to education to development. It may not be as clean as the process that some others have, but we think this is how we can have the most impact.We remain determined, as our founders said when they set the vision for Google.org, "to find original ways to extend our assets, so that we can drive scalable, sustainable efforts. ...the underlying principle: Never stop looking for ways to do the best with what you have."Posted by Urs H?lzle, Senior Vice President, Operations
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