The Cisco community fellowship program and Cisco corporate philanthropy

The Cisco Community Fellowship Program (CFP) is a pilot program created to provide Cisco employees with another option to give back to the community. This one year program leverages the skills of individual Cisco employees together with their knowledge around practical use of Internet solutions, to enable the nonprofit organizations to harvest the productivity increases generated through use of the Internet.Nonprofits are provided with additional highly skilled staff members with expertise from the leader in using the Internet in its own operations. They have access to a network of other organizations using the program and indirect access to the expertise of other Cisco employees. More importantly, this program assists nonprofits to put in place an Internet strategy, which will enable them to deliver their services better, faster, and more efficiently. This will enable these nonprofit organizations to:§ increase the efficiency of their operations§ reduce administrative costs§ improve their communications capabilities§ increase the breadth and depth of services provided to their clients