Learn Giving Dorsum Inward 2011
As the vacation flavour approaches nosotros idea it was a proficient minute to update y'all on some grants we're making to back upward education, engineering as well as the struggle against modern 24-hour interval slavery.
STEM as well as girls’ education
Science, technology, engineering scientific discipline as well as math (STEM) opened upward up dandy opportunities for immature people as well as then we've decided to fund xvi dandy programs inward this area. These include Boston-based Citizen Schools as well as Generating Genius inward the U.K., both of which run to assist to expand the horizons of underprivileged youngsters. In total, our grants volition render enhanced STEM didactics for to a greater extent than than three i grand m students.
In addition, we're supporting girls’ didactics inward the developing world. By giving a daughter an education, y'all non exclusively amend her opportunities, merely those of her whole family. The African Leadership Academy provides merit scholarships to promising immature women across the continent, as well as the Afghan Institute of Learning offers literacy classes to women as well as girls inward rural Afghanistan. Groups similar these volition usage our funds to educate to a greater extent than than 10,000 girls inward developing countries.
Empowerment through technology
We've all been wowed past times the entrepreneurial spirit behind the fifteen awards inward this category, all of whom are using the web, opened upward rootage programming as well as other engineering platforms to connect communities as well as amend access to information. Vittana, for instance, helps lenders offering loans to students inward the developing basis who demand maintain stimulate a 99 pct repayment rate—potentially doubling or tripling a recipient's earning power. Code for America enables the spider web manufacture to portion its skills amongst Blue Planet sector past times developing projects that amend transparency as well as encourage civic engagement on a majority scale. And Switchboard is working amongst local mobile providers to assist African wellness attention workers practice networks as well as communicate for free.
Fighting slavery as well as human trafficking
Modern 24-hour interval slavery is a multi-billion dollar manufacture that ruins the lives of closed to 27 i grand m people. So we're funding a let out of groups that are working to tackle the problem. For instance, inward India, International Justice Mission (IJM), along amongst The BBC World Service Trust, Action Aid as well as Aide et Action, are forming a novel coalition. It volition run on the basis amongst governments to halt slave labor past times identifying the call masters, documenting abuse, freeing individuals as well as providing them amongst therapy equally good equally chore training. Our back upward volition also assist expand the make of tools similar the powerful Slavery Footprint calculator and Polaris Project’s National Trafficking Hotline.
To acquire to a greater extent than almost these organizations as well as how y'all tin acquire involved, view our Google Gives Back 2011 site as well as accept a await at this video:
These grants, which amount $40 million, are exclusively purpose of our annual philanthropic efforts. Over the course of report of the year, Google provided to a greater extent than than $115 i grand m inward funding to diverse nonprofit organizations as well as academic institutions closed to the world; our in-kind back upward (programs similar GoogleServe consequence as well as related programs enabled private Googlers to donate to a greater extent than than 40,000 hours of their ain volunteer time.
As 2011 draws to a close, I’m inspired past times this year’s grantees as well as await frontwards to seeing their world-changing run inward 2012.
STEM as well as girls’ education
Science, technology, engineering scientific discipline as well as math (STEM) opened upward up dandy opportunities for immature people as well as then we've decided to fund xvi dandy programs inward this area. These include Boston-based Citizen Schools as well as Generating Genius inward the U.K., both of which run to assist to expand the horizons of underprivileged youngsters. In total, our grants volition render enhanced STEM didactics for to a greater extent than than three i grand m students.
In addition, we're supporting girls’ didactics inward the developing world. By giving a daughter an education, y'all non exclusively amend her opportunities, merely those of her whole family. The African Leadership Academy provides merit scholarships to promising immature women across the continent, as well as the Afghan Institute of Learning offers literacy classes to women as well as girls inward rural Afghanistan. Groups similar these volition usage our funds to educate to a greater extent than than 10,000 girls inward developing countries.
Empowerment through technology
We've all been wowed past times the entrepreneurial spirit behind the fifteen awards inward this category, all of whom are using the web, opened upward rootage programming as well as other engineering platforms to connect communities as well as amend access to information. Vittana, for instance, helps lenders offering loans to students inward the developing basis who demand maintain stimulate a 99 pct repayment rate—potentially doubling or tripling a recipient's earning power. Code for America enables the spider web manufacture to portion its skills amongst Blue Planet sector past times developing projects that amend transparency as well as encourage civic engagement on a majority scale. And Switchboard is working amongst local mobile providers to assist African wellness attention workers practice networks as well as communicate for free.
Fighting slavery as well as human trafficking
Modern 24-hour interval slavery is a multi-billion dollar manufacture that ruins the lives of closed to 27 i grand m people. So we're funding a let out of groups that are working to tackle the problem. For instance, inward India, International Justice Mission (IJM), along amongst The BBC World Service Trust, Action Aid as well as Aide et Action, are forming a novel coalition. It volition run on the basis amongst governments to halt slave labor past times identifying the call masters, documenting abuse, freeing individuals as well as providing them amongst therapy equally good equally chore training. Our back upward volition also assist expand the make of tools similar the powerful Slavery Footprint calculator and Polaris Project’s National Trafficking Hotline.
To acquire to a greater extent than almost these organizations as well as how y'all tin acquire involved, view our Google Gives Back 2011 site as well as accept a await at this video:
These grants, which amount $40 million, are exclusively purpose of our annual philanthropic efforts. Over the course of report of the year, Google provided to a greater extent than than $115 i grand m inward funding to diverse nonprofit organizations as well as academic institutions closed to the world; our in-kind back upward (programs similar GoogleServe consequence as well as related programs enabled private Googlers to donate to a greater extent than than 40,000 hours of their ain volunteer time.
As 2011 draws to a close, I’m inspired past times this year’s grantees as well as await frontwards to seeing their world-changing run inward 2012.