Tag: Cisco Foundation

FareShare awarded $75k grant from Cisco Foundation for FARE Allocation Project

Stuart Mitchell

FareShare has been awarded with a $75k grant from Cisco Foundation Regional Grants for its FARE Allocation Project. The FARE Allocation Project is designed to make our food distribution more equitable and more aligned with the geographical distribution of poverty and other indicators of deprivation across the UK. It will take official data on various indices of deprivation and ensure we are directing food and other resources to the areas which are currently underserved. FareShare was nominated for the grant by a Cisco Foundation employee who is a volunteer at…

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Cisco Foundation Sparks Innovation by Investing in Promising Solutions to Climate Change

Stuart Mitchell

Cisco have highlighted their new grants for climate change in the following blog post: It is hard to look at the news or social media today and not be confronted with the issue of climate change. Scientific research continues to show that human-induced global warming, species extinction, and habitat loss is causing widespread disruption in nature and affecting billions of people through storms, flooding, wildfires, drought, food scarcity, and other crises. Meanwhile, more and more people are becoming concerned about these existential threats, and looking for ways to both raise…

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