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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
2009 Tech Citizenship honoree: IBM Corp.
By Mass High Tech staff
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IBM Corp. over the past two years has been moving employees into its largest software lab in North America, the IBM Mass Lab, which will have two locations in Littleton and Westford. In that time, IBM has worked closely with the town of Littleton to build partnerships and engage community members. Most recently, IBM awarded Littleton Public Schools a $40,000 grant for IBM’s Reading Companion program, a web-based tool that uses speech-recognition technology that listens to young children or adults read aloud and provides individual feedback. IBM has also expanded its Corporate Service Corps, under which IBM is sending professionals to emerging countries to help build local business communities. In the past two years, 15 IBM employees across New England have participated in this program.
“IBM has a deep commitment to the communities in which we live and work,” said Stanley S. Litow, vice president, Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs, IBM, and president of the IBM International Foundation. “We are proud to support the more than 4,000 IBM volunteers in New England who are making an enormous difference.”
Citizenship facts
Total cash contributions in New England in 2008: $42,900,000
Number of volunteer hours in New England in 2008: 1,299,742
In-kind contributions of equipment and services in New England in 2008: $136,400,000
Principal recipients of charitable activities in 2008: United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley, Citizen Schools, Year Up, Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, Boston Latin Academy
Interesting philanthropic activities: IBM and Harvard University researchers recently launched a new World Community Grid project to discover organic materials to create a more efficient and lower cost solar cell. The effort will use idle computer power from volunteers to create large supplies of new clean energy. World Community Grid is the largest public humanitarian grid in existence, with more than 413,000 members in more than 200 countries.
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