Cisco and the Cisco Foundation this week pledged $4.5 million to City Year’s Whole School Whole Child program. Cisco has donated more than $12 million to City Year since 1993.
Under the new pledge, up to $1.5 million during the next three years will be earmarked towards enhancing the capabilities of the Whole School Whole Child program. Cisco will also donate up to $3 million in product and services to help build a collaboration and communications platform using Web conferencing and other Web 2.0 capabilities.
This will enable City Year to scale the Whole School Whole Child program around the country, Cisco says.
Cisco’s commitment came during this week’s City Year National Leadership Summit, which focused on a national-service response to the high school dropout pattern. Cisco Foundation Executive Director Michael Yutrzenka participated in a panel discussion on national service and the dropout situation, moderated by Judy Woodruff, senior correspondent for PBS’ “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.”
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