Microsoft Reports on UN Development Goals Efforts
By Susan Thomas, Assistant Director, Electronic Communications, Boston College Center
Cut global hunger in half. Reduce child mortality by two-thirds. Halt the spread of AIDS. Create more jobs and raise salaries in underdeveloped countries. These are just a few of the ambitious international development goals that 189 United Nations (UN) member states and at least 23 international organizations have committed to achieve by 2015. Microsoft’s Pamela Passman recently gave a progress report on Microsoft’s 2007 pledge to address the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Read more.

Many companies striving to be good corporate citizens today face an internal tug of war between giving attention to community initiatives that address social problems and the growing demand to make environmental issues paramount.