Google stated last year that they “strive to build sustainability into everything we do.”
This is a huge mission. What are the company’s strategies to accomplish it?
TFI’s Teymoor Nabili spoke to Marija Ralic, APAC Lead of the company’s charitable arm Google.Org, for the insider’s report on Google’s philanthropic work in Asia Pacific.
Ralic says giving innovative nonprofit organizations and social enterprises the funding, technology, and volunteers (who are more often than not “Googlers” themselves) they need to solve society’s most complex problems – which in turn benefits marginalized and underserved communities.
Check out the full conversation with Ralic in the video below:
Source Tech for Impact
November 23, 2020
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As shadow secretary on climate change, Miliband will spend the conference gauging support for this measure which could usher a new age of cooperation.
