Ford Foundation President Luis A. Ubiņas now targets a new agenda: That of having all people secure affordable, open and fast Internet access everywhere.
Ubiņas also pushes for an overhaul of the E-Rate program which was created in 1996 to fund Internet connections for schools and libraries. Furthermore, he calls on getting broadband access at the core of any conversation on national infrastructure.
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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.