Submitted by:

Awiral Kumar Das, Roll no. 16

Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur.

Cisco makes an impact on society by creating networks that connect the world and improve
education and healthcare, by enabling energy efficiency, and by helping people collaborate and
work smarter.Our corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs are designed to provide longterm benefits to our employees, customers, shareholders, partners, and individuals in
communities around the world. We focus on these main areas:
Governance and Ethics
Supply Chain
Our People
Society
Environment

2015 - CISCO CSR Report (in a nutshell)

Dec 9, 2015 12:35 PM ET
Summary:
Cisco Corporate Social Responsibility strategy prioritizes the issues that are most important
to our business and to our stakeholders, identified through a formal CSR materiality
assessment. We use the Cisco CSR Report to communicate our approach, objectives,
progress, and challenges around five high-level priorities. Today, well focus on Our People:
A culture of empowerment, engagement, and innovation makes Cisco one of the most
admired companies in the world and one of the best places to work. Our success depends
on our people their engagement, their talent, their innovation, and their desire to continue
to learn and grow. We are going to give them a flexible work environments where they will
be safe and healthy, where they can be their authentic selves, where they can get training
and improve themselves, and where they will be rewarded for their hard work.
Francine Katsoudas, Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer at Cisco, emphasized
the importance of our people in this years Cisco Corporate Social Responsibility report:
At the core of our success is our people, and they are our focus. We want to attract and
keep the best people and develop the best leaders today for tomorrow leaders who have
impact and are building the most incredible teams.

Ciscos employees share in the companys mutual success and are rewarded for their
incredible work in many ways, from both an individual and family perspective. Cisco
provides competitive pay and gives employees their birthday day off, as well as
offering on-campus state-of-the-art medical care, fitness centers, childcare, paid
family rime, and college coaches. Our people are core to our business, and we want
to show or commitment to them every single day. In FY15, Cisco achieved a number
of goals around its people:
o Launched Our People Deal, which focuses on transforming the employee
experience at Cisco.
o Received international recognition, including:
o No. 1 Aon Hewitt Best Employer (Czech Republic and Canada)
o Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For
o No. 1 Great Place to Work in Italy, Portugal, and Switzerland
o Developed Sync Up, which allows managers and employees to create more
meaningful work and engage in more efficient development discussions.
o Created an executive leadership team diverse in gender, ethnicity, generation,
and work experience.
o Established People Leadership Commitments to build the best teams and
create the best employee experience at Cisco.
In 2016, Cisco will continue to focus on its people in a number of different ways, from driving
awareness to increasing workforce diversity and integrating inclusion into key businesses.

Cisco Foundation
Working with social innovators to multiply the impact of local efforts
The Cisco Foundation was established in 1997 by a gift from Cisco. Cisco and the
Cisco Foundation partner with nonprofits, non-governmental organizations (NGOs),
and community-based organizations to carry out many of our Corporate Social
Responsibility programs.
Vision and Mission
The Cisco Foundation supports Cisco's efforts to team with nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations around the world to develop technology-based solutions
in our investment areas. We focus this work on underserved communities and look
for solutions that harness the power of the Internet and communications technology.

Investment Areas: We focus our support where we can make the biggest
impact--education, economic empowerment, and critical human needs.
Support for Nonprofits: The Cisco Foundation makes strategic grants to
programs with long-lasting impact on a local, national, and global scale.
Engaged Employees: We empower employees to give more by matching
their donations and making cash donations when they volunteer.

Innovation and Change

Cisco truly partners with our grantees. We work with you to build capacity around
measuring outcomes. Measuring the impact of a program or partner is essential to
sustaining and improving programs. We have helped small non-profit become global
providers of innovative social services. We provide our expertise to help them manage
the investment.

Access to Education
Our innovative programs make use of networked technology to prepare people of all
ages worldwide to succeed in a global, technology-driven society.

Economic Empowerment
Investing in human potential through programs that use ICT to connect challenged
communities and underserved populations to resources that change lives.
Connected Healthcare
Cisco collaboration technologies bring healthcare specialists to the patients who need
them, reducing the stress and expense of traveling to receive care.
Critical Human Needs and Disaster Relief
Speeding the delivery of essential resources through ongoing programs and disaster
response.

CISCO CSR Activities in Indian Subcontinent

CISCO Supports More Than 14 Schools, In India also there is One (under its policy of
Access to Education)
_STEM Academy (India)
With Cisco support, the STEM Academy is delivering a comprehensive STEM curriculum
to over 2,600 students in low-income schools in India. The program measures student
progress and success as they develop skills in engineering, modeling, and manufacturing.

Project Samudaya

Feeding the Children: Ciscos Global Hunger Relief Campaign in India

Cisco has only one corporate office in India. It is Located in Bangalore, India. In its CSR activities,
it carries out activities like providing meal to school students in Bangalore and its neighbouring
cities/villages. In Association with Akshaya Patra Foundation, Cisco carries out its CSR activities
under its Global Hunger Relief Campaign.

Cisco CSR Report 2010 : Akshaya Patra Foundation

We at Akshaya Patra see a big alignment between Ciscos CSR vision and Akshaya Patras
vision of seeing no child in India shall be hungry and will miss education because of hunger.
Cisco towards Global Hunger Relief Campaign has been trying to alleviate poverty in the
world. And we see a big fit here, because Akshaya Patra wants to do the same thing. And
these two organizations, the worlds largest NGO-run school meal program and the worlds
largest networking company have come together to solve this one major problem which the
country faces, that children are missing out on education and because of hunger.

Cisco distributes breakfast boxes to 15 schools

Cisco Bangalore in association with Akshaya Patra distributed 3,000 breakfast boxes across
15 Government school on 29, July 2015. The activity was conducted on behalf of John
Chambers, former CEO, Cisco systems who departed the company. Over 100 volunteers
from Cisco joined in to distribute breakfast boxes to the children. Each box contained
cornflakes, milk, raisins and a chikki (Indian sweet made out of groundnuts and jaggery) bar
for the children.
With an aim to end hunger in classrooms, Cisco has already contributed over 250
volunteering hours towards the Mid-day Meal programme.

Initiative

Ethical

Economical

Legal

Philanthropic

Feeding the Children

with Akshaya Patra

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

 Feeding the Children: Ciscos Global Hunger Relief Campaign in India

Alexis Raymond | December 17, 2013 at 9:00 am PST

As we inch closer to the final week of Ciscos signature fundraising campaign, the Global Hunger
Relief Campaign, we look back and feel proud about the 150,000 children we have fed over the last
6 years through our exclusive nongovernmental organization (NGO) partner Akshaya Patra
Foundation.
Akshaya Patra, one of the largest mid-day meal programs in the world, serves meals across 10,000
schools in India. The Global Hunger Relief Campaign this year aims to fundraise to benefit 40,000
children for an entire year. To add momentum to the effort, the Cisco HR team in India organized a
marathon in support of the campaign. With the mission of achieving miles for smiles, over 300
employees participated.
We are making an impact. To help raise funds to provide mid-day meals to schoolchildren in an
ongoing campaign, Cisco partners exclusively with The Akshaya Patra Foundation in India, which
focuses on eliminating hunger and making primary education available for all. Since our partnership
began in FY09, we have fed nearly 195,000 children a mid-day meal for an entire year. On Nov. 2,
at the Cisco Bangalore, India campus, we hosted the CEO of The Akshaya Patra Foundation. Later
in the week, students and from Concern India Foundation, a Akshaya Patra beneficiary, visited the
campus and worked with employees to create Diwali decorations, and more than 95 volunteers
painted earthen lamps as a thank you gift to the Indias government schools, which help to feed
hungry students every day.

Food packages that Cisco employees put together are delivered to students at a government-run school

This season also witnessed the largest volunteering event for our office in Bangalore, where 215
employees came together to pack 1000 food packages for underprivileged children in a governmentrun school. Ciscos in-house rock band, the Lone Rangers, performed in the spirit of giving back
during the campaign, and even composed a song dedicated to the Global Hunger Relief Campaign.

Volunteers prep the next days meal

Recommendation :
This Akshaya Patra and Cisco Hunger Relief Campaign is Economical, Ethical, Philanthropic and
Legal. Thus this Initiative comes under SCSR for Cisco and is recommended to continue with it.