The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has recently announced that they are going to be investing $9 million into programs such as the MyCollege Foundation and The MITx Project, among others.
The funded programs aim to give online students the chance to take certain courses offered by participating institutions where professors are making their lectures available to partnering colleges or online institutions.
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Here are the star companies that have succeeded in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. The companies were gathered by Civic 50, a national initiative to survey and rank S&P 500 corporations on how they engage with the communities they serve and utilize best practices in their corporate cultures.