Tag: Intel Involved

• 10,000 Followers – Thank you!! Yesterday we reached ten thousand followers on our @Intelinvolved Twitter handle – a big milestone since I started tweeting for the account back in June of last year. THANK YOU! To celebrate, we’re highlighting ten of our friends on Twitter – though undoubtedly we have many more (9,990 friends, in fact). If you’re not following these folks already, you should be!...
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• Blue Shirts: Behind the Scenes at the POTUS visit Yesterday afternoon, Intel welcomed the President of the United States, Barack Obama, to our Ocotillo campus in Arizona – future home of the FAB 42 manufacturing plant. Several thousand Intel employees and guests attended the event, which was covered by both local and national media outlets. As I supported the core planning team for the President’s visit, I have first-hand...
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• Small Change (140 characters or less) Ahead You probably already know that in addition to blogging, our team is also active on Twitter (I bet that’s how you got here). In fact, we have several handles – two of them being @Intel_Education and @Intel_CSR. Recently, we changed the name of our @Intel_Education handle to @Intelinvolved to better reflect our passion and active involvement towards creating a better...
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• Bite-Sized CSR: 1501 Pairs of Shorts This is the fourth post in our "Bite-sized CSR" blog series surrounding our 2010 Corporate Responsibility Report, where we'll pull out little snippets and case studies from across the 100+ pages of our new report. Last Friday I spent my afternoon volunteering in a school gymnasium. Children from Title 1 schools (large percentage of kids from low income families), as well...
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• 336 Boxes of Love Go a Long Way This post was written in collaboration with Andrew Riha, Intel Europe Corporate Affairs. Full of positive energy and good will, December is one of my favorite months. And no wonder, as it hosts so many festive days - the major seasonal ones we are all familiar with, and another one that I have a strong personal connection to: International Volunteer...
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• Are you INVOLUED? Sometimes mistakes turn out for the better, even if at first they make us feel ashamed. Last October we organized an Intel Involved activity in Argentina, which consisted in picking up trash from the riverbed of the Ecological Reserve, the event was excellent, but there was one mistake that did not pass unnoticed: the print on the T-shirts!A few days...
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• Gen Y’ers Vote for Meaning over Money I recently read an interesting article about Gen Y'ers in the Harvard Business Review, written by three people from the Center for Work-Life Policy. Two large-scale surveys were conducted to determine the "work aspiration of high-echelon talent." The findings proved something we at Intel have known for a long time: "Flexible work arrangements and the opportunity to give back to...
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• The Treasure Uncovered at the Zoo Reading Marathon On 1 October Fundacion Leer, a leading NGO in Argentina that promotes reading among children, organized a National Reading Marathon, in which more than 3 million children in schools across the country participated. The simultaneous events across Argentina were symbolized in a main event held at the Buenos Aires Zoo where more than 1500 children participated. During the event, there...
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• Want to test your Portuguese? A peek into skills-based volunteering in Brazil In 2008, the Intel Involved program was expanded to Brazil with the mission of accomplishing 10 hours of volunteer of each employee.As a sales and marketing office, the steering committee was faced with the challenge of the heavy traffic in São Paulo. And, for that reason, some employees were resistant to leave the office for volunteer activities and had limited...
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• Life after 40 Intel turned 41 this month. The company isn't visibly celebrating, but I know the spirit of our 40th anniversary programs live on and are being deepened. As I visit Intel sites around the globe, I'm struck by the depth of commitment of our employees who are applying their professional skills to community needs and really taking the spirit of volunteerism...
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