| Featured Article |  | | Save the Date! Celebration 2011 is happening
Nov. 16th! | | | The
Philanthropist Connecting the Microsoft Alumni Philanthropic
Community |
We're all back from summer and the busy fall schedule is underway! This has
been an exciting week with Day of Caring and the Clinton Global Initiative, and
the MSAF staff is working hard to get ready for our main event, the 2011
Integral Fellows Celebration. Read on... | | | Alumni
Turn Out for Day of Caring  Thank you to all the Microsoft alumni who turned out for Day of
Caring this year! Volunteers helped clear trails, provide technical support,
sort baby clothes, and more in support of non-profit agencies throughout King
County.
Microsoft Corporation made the
day even better by contributing $100 for each alumnus who participated. So far,
over $26,000 has been raised (W00T!), which will be distributed to MSAF
non-profit partners working in King County. Look for email coming soon for your
chance to vote -- the top five organizations will split the grant. If you
participated and you're not sure if you're on our list, please contact us.
Every dollar counts! And check out your colleagues' photos and stories here... | | 2011
Integral Fellows Finalists Announced The Microsoft Alumni Foundation
is thrilled to announce this year's finalists for the 2011 Integral Fellows
Awards. Nineteen outstanding Microsoft alumni were nominated this year for their
philanthropic work in fields as diverse as promoting electric vehicles and
robotics education to caring for orphans and people afflicted with AIDS to
assisting farmers in India and teachers in the United States. "Our Alumni are innovators in
the philanthropic community, creating solutions to help solve problems they care
about deeply," said Jeff Raikes, chairman of the board of the Microsoft Alumni
Foundation. "Our Integral Fellows Program finalists were nominated by their
peers for their innovations and their impact on people's daily lives." This year's finalists are: Winners are to be announced at
the 2011 Celebration, to be held this year at the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation on November 16th. | Celebrate
with Us at The Gates Foundation
Join us Wednesday, November
16, 2011, at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for this year's Integral
Fellows Awards Celebration! We are delighted to be able to
hold this year's Celebration in the atrium of the new Gates Foundation campus.
Marylou Brannan, MSAF executive director, has been on site and says the
location, and the food, are "fabulous". You won't want to miss it! The event is free to all
members of the Microsoft Alumni Foundation and their guest, but space is
limited. Registration opens October
1. | | Save
the Date! SIFP is October 3rd This Monday, October 3rd at 4:30
PM at Fisher Pavillion over $175,000 in grants and investment capital will be awarded for delivering
the most compelling five-minute presentations on a new social business, a
non-profit program, or a new social entrepreneur's plan. Paul Shoemaker, MSAF board
member and Executive Connector of Social Venture Partners Seattle is bringing an
exciting and innovative program called Social Innovation Fast
Pitch to Seattle, and Microsoft Alumni Foundation is proud to be a sponsor
of this event, along with Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Aditi, Bezos Family
Foundation, and many more. Social innovators have been
practicing their pitches and are preparing to win your support for their great
ideas. It's really exciting to see their passion and enthusiasm, and the program
is a great experience for nonprofits and inventors, who work with mentors to
hone their message. Get your tickets now. We
look forward to seeing you there! | In tegral Fellows Winners at CGI 2011 MSAF Integral Fellows winners were well-represented at the 2011 Clinton Global
Initiative conference in New York City last week. John Wood of Room to Read, current
member of the CGI Advisory Board, Frank Schott of NetHope, a CGI 2011
Commitment winner, and Cliff Schmidt of Literacy Bridge were
invited to attend.
John Wood kicked off the event with a report on girls'
education and the factors that contribute to success. NetHope CEO Bill
Brindley was on the main stage of CGI with partners Accenture Foundation, Cisco,
HP, Microsoft, and Waggener Edstrom to discuss their commitment to extend NetHope
Academy to six countries. Cliff Schmidt received a special invitation to
attend, where he met President Clinton and worked to develop a commitment to
bring the Talking Book to more communities worldwide. Read more... | | |