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Corporate responsibility is central to Cisco Systems’ culture and history. Cisco established its Product Donation Program in 1998, distributing new and refurbished networking equipment, including switches, routers, and fi rewalls, to nonprofits doing important work in its focus areas. One of the cornerstones of the optimized program is TechSoup, which serves as the virtual donation platform for Cisco’s new program. Thanks to this partnership with TechSoup Stock, thousands of nonprofits have been able to improve their service to their communities.

Donation recipients have reported the following operational benefits:

  • 76% saw a signifi cant increase in network performance
  • The number of nonprofits rating their network reliability “great” grew from 25% to 75%
  • The savings in operational costs averaged 7%
  • Ultimately, because of these remarkable operational improvements, recipient organizations were able to increase the number of clients served by 14% on average

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