Overview of Challenges & Value
GE is an advanced technology, services and finance company taking on the world’s toughest challenges by finding ways to respond that create value. GE businesses depend on the infrastructure, skills and institutions of stable prosperous...
Action Points Solidarity Celebrates GE 90 Years in Brazil
GE celebrated 90 years of its operation in Brazil with the 90 Thousand campaign: Three ideas, 90,000 actions that benefited more than 100,000 people. This was the Company’s most ambitious social responsibility initiative in this country. It...
Action Points Education Improves Quality of Life
The Santa Fe area of Mexico City, in Mexico, is known for being an area of extreme contrasts, where the most important international and national corporations, including GE, are set up alongside large sectors of the population that are excluded from...
Action Points 2010 City Success Stories
This year the Stamford Public School (SPS) district was awarded an additional $10.4 million, four-year grant, bringing the total support to $26.4 million. The additional support was given to build upon the district’s impressive improvement over...
Expert Perspectives Community Building: Lessons from the Business Sector on Nonprofit Leadership Development
The nonprofit sector’s underinvestment in talent development is not news to anyone. All too often, training is categorized as a luxury, rather than a necessity. The limited training dollars that do exist are often spent at the top of the...
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The GE Foundation
GE Foundation, the philanthropic organization of General Electric Company, works to solve some of the world’s most difficult problems. In coordination with its partners, GE Foundation supports U.S. and international education, developing health...
Strengthening the Global Economy
As the global economy in 2010 slowly returned to growth, GE worked to promote public policies that will help ensure stronger growth in the short term and sustained growth in the long term. In particular, GE has been actively engaged in discussions...
GE Volunteers
GE Volunteers is a network of local councils that facilitate volunteer activities for GE employees and retirees around the world. The work of GE Volunteers improves lives and conditions in communities where GE people live and work, promotes GE...
Employees & Retirees
GE employees and retirees bring more to their communities than just the value their GE jobs add to the local economy. They contribute funds from their personal resources to local nonprofit organizations that work to address a wide range of local...
GE Foundation Conference – Keynote
Arne Duncan, the United States Secretary of Education, was the keynote speaker for the GE...
GE Foundation Funds NYC schools
A collaboration between the GE Foundation and NYC will help fund middle school science, math and...
Hip Hop Public Health Education
The Hip Hop Public Health Education Center at Harlem Hospital recently took it's message to kids at...
US Secretary of Education keynotes GE Foundation conference
Arne Duncan, the United States Secretary of Education, was the keynote speaker at the 2009...
GE Foundation Developing Futures in Education
In 2006, the GE Foundation announced a $20-million, five-year grant to Cincinnati Public Schools...